--- title: It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and… | daily.dev description: iMessage continues to treat phone numbers with and without country codes (+1) as separate contacts while grouping them in the same message thread, creating a... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/it-is-twenty-fucking-twenty-six-and--ilynigqws twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and… | daily.dev og:description: iMessage continues to treat phone numbers with and without country codes (+1) as separate contacts while grouping them in the same message thread, creating a... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/it-is-twenty-fucking-twenty-six-and--ilynigqws og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ILyniGQWS.png og:image:alt: It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and… og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # It is Twenty Fucking Twenty Six and… **[Justin Searls](https://daily.dev/sources/searls)** · 1 min read · 30 upvotes · 6 comments ## Summary iMessage continues to treat phone numbers with and without country codes (+1) as separate contacts while grouping them in the same message thread, creating a frustrating user experience that forces users to potentially save duplicate contact entries for US phone numbers. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@wtk** · 11 upvotes > Switch phones mate, Android is far better 🤷 **@astridsawatzky** · 2 upvotes > smart(!) phones. :-D **@viniciuscorreia** · 1 upvotes > 20F26 and N. America still uses SMS for messaging... drop it and use one of the many others platforms and you'll find out why this was never an issue for anyone else in the world. **@khauma** · 0 upvotes > You should have left the iPhone in 2025... **@scottyfnc** · 0 upvotes > 2026-> uses apple. top of the line androids have always been comparable to apple, linux distros have been easier to use than ever. get out of the apple "walled prison" ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Why Messaging Compatibility Matters in Mobile Audience Planning](https://daily.dev/posts/why-messaging-compatibility-matters-in-mobile-audience-planning-8poe3lnjr) · Medium · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Ring, reject, repeat: South Africa’s spam call crisis](https://daily.dev/posts/ring-reject-repeat-south-africa-s-spam-call-crisis-jfp2vmn2x) · TechCentral · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [I just want working RCS messaging](https://daily.dev/posts/i-just-want-working-rcs-messaging-fgdnfdta5) · Hacker News · 0 upvotes · 0 comments --- 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