How do I text the other number in the contact?

You can

1. Start a new message
2. Type the first or few letters of the contact
3. Tap the > on the right to choose which number you want to use (if the contact has 2 or 3 numbers)
4. Compose your text then tap send.

I have the same problem as alena96

I tried what ckuan suggested and it still diverts back to the original number on the contact list, will not let me tex to any other number beside that one. It worked fine until the last update by apple

After numerous calls to Apple I finally was able to talk to someone who would take the time to help me!! That's the good news, the bad news is that with the new 13. upgrade the Apple engineers determined that they screwed up on the I-Phone 7 and below. One can only test to one number on your contacts even if you do what everyone has suggested. The only way around this is to create a separate contact for each number you have...for me I run my business with this BRAND NEW I-PHONE 7 I JUST BOUGHT. I have over 900 contacts with multiple numbers!

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I am having this same issue. Just bought new iphone 11 and upgraded to the latest 13.3 and this started happening. I was not having this issue before the upgrade. I'm not sure that upgrading will fix this.

My boss and I are both having this same issue. And only since the last update.

Certainly anyone with multiple numbers under one contact would be in the same boat.

I have hundreds of business contacts with multiple reps in each that are able to text, and there is no way I can take the time to redo my contact cards. Who has time for that? I spent years making them! wtf apple?

Only workaround I have found is to pull up past text messages from all the contacts in that card, and delete the texts and start a new text to whom I need. But then I lose my text history! Sometimes I have important timelines I don't want to lose. Please fix apple.

I have a 10xs...same problem

That doesn't work

Any new fixes? If I upgrade the phone will it work?

When I type in the full number it works to send a message then I reply to their response and the message goes to the other number in my contact. This is super annoying. Apple please change this back.

Apple’s “recommendation” from ckuan does not work. Try again.