IMessage using iCloud email and not Phone number

I have a friend who's messaging me using iMessage but it's coming from her email address instead of her number. I can text her number in a separate message and it will show up as a text on her side, but when she responds back it sends it as an iMessage from her email.
Anyone have any ideas or fixes?
Thanks in advance

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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