Texting Contacts with multiple phone nos.

[mpavilion]

I'm sure this is a longstanding issue, but it's never tripped me up until now. I have a few Contacts (for businesses) with multiple phone nos. entered. I also have a running text thread with one of those numbers, and want to text a different no. (another employee's cell). When I initiate a "message" from within the Contact, I'm not asked which number I want to text – it defaults immediately to the open text thread. If I manually enter the number I want to text... it still ends up blending it into the existing text thread. So now I have convos with multiple employees in a single thread, with no way to see which number (person) sent or received any particular text in the thread.

Any way to work around this, other than creating a separate Contact for each number? Thx

 

[VSMacOne]

I'll bump this because it's pretty annoying that there's no way indicator in iOS to show the different numbers as you're messaging them. There should at least be a toggle.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Another related thing is Facetime calling. If you Facetime a single contact it will ring every iPhone number and possibly every iPad and macOS email address that is listed under that contact. I don't know of a way around this so I've got multiple contact cards for a couple of people.