New conversation in Messages

I’m texting on my iPhone with a friend who has an Android phone. Our conversation thread is very long, and I don’t want to delete it but I want to start a new thread. Is this possible?


i tried to create a new contact for her, but given that it’s the same phone number as before, it doesn’t show up in Messages as a new contact.

iPhone XS

Posted on Jan 16, 2023 02:28 PM

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Posted on Jan 16, 2023 03:02 PM

Unfortunately, you cannot start different message threads for the same phone number. If you try to start a conversation with a number that already has a conversation thread running, the message will start in that thread.

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Jan 16, 2023 03:02 PM in response to karenr

Unfortunately, you cannot start different message threads for the same phone number. If you try to start a conversation with a number that already has a conversation thread running, the message will start in that thread.

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