IMessage sending from email instead of phone number

After 5 months of using my iPhone, my iMessage has switched to sending from phone number to sending from my email on the iPhone 5S (Software ios 8.1.3). I have already checked my settings, which state it should be sending from my phone number. In fact when I have deselected my email address as an alternate for iMessage, my messages will not send at all. I have rebooted my phone as well as signed in and out of iMessage and iCloud. I don't know how to fix this issue, any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Hey emdiers,
I see that you are experiencing a messaging issue on your iPhone. It sounds like you are unable to send SMS messages as well as being unable to send iMessages from your phone number, is this correct? If so, when you turn off iMessage, you will not be able to send any messages whatsoever. Have you found this to be the case? If so, this article has some advice on how to address this issue:
Contact your carrier
If you can't send or receive SMS or MMS messages, contact your carrier to check your text messaging plan.
If you can't send or receive messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT204065
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

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Go to your contacts and look up your own contact. To check if you have created an "I", which mean a "yourself" go to "Settings - Mail, Contacts, etc.". Under Contacts you will find "My Infos".
At this point you should see your own name. If not, press on "My Infos" and create yourself on your iPhone. (Phone number, etc.). If you see your name at "My Infos" press on it an check if you have typed in your correct phone number.
You can also go to Settings - Phone and look up if your number is saved under "My Number".
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did you ever get this resolved? I'm having the same issue... I sometimes only provide an email address to people whom I wish to receive messages from so that they are not able to actually call my phone... recently I've been hearing from friends who do have my phone number that all of a sudden my messages are being sent from my email address. My 'start new message' option has ALWAYS been to send from my phone number. I have always assumed that if someone started a conversation with me by sending to my imessage email address that when I respond to them and them only would it come from the email address...
this has not been happening...

My iMessage is sending from email instead of my phone number. I have tried to change it back by going to settings messages receive at and it won't let me click on my phone number. Please help!!

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Trying to kill two birds with one stone, my phone also says that I have no storage left. I literally have 3 apps installed on my phone. Facebook, Twitter, and instagram. I only have 52 photos, 0 videos, and about 115 songs. I know for a fact that I shouldn't be out of storage, because I have friends with the same iPhone 4, that have 400 pictures, a thousand songs, and page after page of apps. I want to know what is taking up all of the storage, and what can I do to get rid of it. Thank you in advance

Sorry G23 - I like birds ;)
I suggest you start another thread as I don't know the answer to that one but this might help:
Go to settings - general - usage - Her e you might find some data hogs
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Associate your mobile number with your Apple ID, if you haven't already done so.
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Hi,
I message is sending messages from my email address. I have tried going in to settings/messages/send and receive which is currently defaulted to my email but my phone number is greyed out and cannot be selected.
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Hello LouLouN,
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities. It sounds like you are not able to configure your iMessage settings to include your phone number, due to it being greyed out. This issue can usually be resolved by simply turning iMessage off, restarting your iPhone, and then turning iMessage back on.
For additional information, check out the following articles:
If you can't send or receive messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204065
Restart or reset your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201559
Cheers,
Matt M.

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Anyone have any ideas or fixes?
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First see in https://appleid.apple.com if her apple ID is linked with her iPhone phone number, if not, modify and save changes, then in her iPhone go to settings -> messages -> and deactivate iMessage and activate it again (the phone number should appear in "Receive At" greyed out). Do the same in settings -> FaceTime. After that reboot your iPhone. Hope that works, it worked for me

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Hi,
I have iMessage set up on my iPhone 5s (fully updated) and regularly use it since most of my contacts also have imessage. I mainly use it on my iPhone, but sometimes use the messaging app on my Mac.
I have an email linked to my iMessage, it is my apple ID. I have it set as "can be reached at" my phone number and email and "start new conversations from" ONLY my phone number.
However, sometimes when I'm in the middle of a text conversation with someone, they will end up getting an imessage from my email and not my phone number, which confuses people and puts the conversation in two different places.
Is this a common issue? Do I just remove the email from where I can be reached at? Does doing that disable me from using the messenger app on my mac?

Unfortunately yes - if you have both phone number and email checked as available then sometimes the choice from where to send appears to be random.
However you may want to disable the email as a potential contact point on the phone and leave it on in the pad and see what happens - given the cloud based nature of the system it may synchronize at some point but at least you will know .

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Howdy Tylorplas20,
Thanks for using the Apple Support Communities.
To start troubleshooting this issue where iMessages are being sent from an email address rather than your phone number which is selected, please sign out of iMessage and then sign back in.
Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out.
iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage - Apple Support
Cheers,
Alex H.

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Any thoughts on what I can do?

When I turn back on all devices, where it says "you can be reached by imessage at" both my phone number and apple id email are checked, but only phone number for "start conversations from"
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When using iMessage, is it normal for it to be sent as an email? My friends with iPhones will txt me and when I txt back it starts a new conversation entirely with my email as the contact. Is there a way to set it to my phone number? When I recieve iMessages it's never an email.

Settings > Messages > Receive At > Caller ID.
What do you have selected for your iMessage Caller ID - your cell phone number or an email address?
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My iMessage will act up randoming and between different number will show up I'm my email box. The same goes for when I kneads age certain people it shows up in their text. Essays box but as my email address which they have never had just wondering why iMessage might switch this and how I can fix the issue. Thank you in advance for any help.

Hey emdiers,
I see that you are experiencing a messaging issue on your iPhone. It sounds like you are unable to send SMS messages as well as being unable to send iMessages from your phone number, is this correct? If so, when you turn off iMessage, you will not be able to send any messages whatsoever. Have you found this to be the case? If so, this article has some advice on how to address this issue:
Contact your carrier
If you can't send or receive SMS or MMS messages, contact your carrier to check your text messaging plan.
If you can't send or receive messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
https://support.apple.com/en-is/HT204065
Thanks for being a part of the Apple Support Communities!
Regards,
Braden

IMessage sending from email instead of phone number

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