Some Mac users may run into a situation where the Messages app for Mac shows phone numbers instead of contact names, despite those contacts numbers being saved and associated with names. Typically you can resolve this issue with a few simple solutions, which we’ll get into here.

How to Fix Mac Messages Showing Phone Numbers Instead of Names

The issue where contacts in Messages show up as phone numbers instead of contact names is usually related to iCloud, and is typically an easy fix.

For what it’s worth, some of the standard troubleshooting steps for…