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desertman

macrumors 6502a
Original poster
Jul 14, 2008
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Arizona, USA
I have two friends who changed their names some time ago. With both I have years of messages in Messages on my Mac mini (Sierra) and my MacBook Pro (Mohave), and, of course, some months of messages on my iPhone and my iPad.

I have changed for both people the names in Contacts (their phone numbers are still the same). Messages on iPhone and iPad shows now their new names in their respective messages threads. However, on both of my Macs the threads show still the old names.

Is there a way to get Messages for macOS to show the new names on the existing threads?
 
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