Apple Text messge sent using email?

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i dont know why whenever I send a text measege, the other person who gets my text see's the sender as my email. not my actual number why? why does it always show my email.
 

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i dont know why whenever I send a text measege, the other person who gets my text see's the sender as my email. not my actual number why? why does it always show my email.
You could write a whole book about how Smart Phones do Stupid Things. I'm pretty sure it's an option in the phone's settings to send the Caller/Sender ID as your E-Mail adress and it can surely be disabled. It'd be easier to determine the cause if you gave us the model of your...

*looks at sig*

iPhone, huh? :creep:
 

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Does it happen with everyone or only one person? Maybe they got your contact messed up and they have your name as an email.
 

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Did you change any setting as of late before this whole issue started? We need you to backtrack and list out settings you changed or tweaked prior to this problem
 

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It's not iMessage, is it?

Using an iPhone would still show the phone number, I think, but it's still worth checking, because for iOS devices without a number it will use the email address as contact information.
(You'll know if it's got a blue bubble.)
 

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