Call and Video greyed out on iMessage contact [SOLVED]

I figured out why call and video might be greyed out in iMessage ( when tapping on the contacts picture and bringing up contact details).

This happened to me somewhat randomly the other day. For some reason iMessage started messaging my wife to her Apple ID email instead of her phone number. I had to go into the Contacts app and remove her iCloud email from her contact entry, save it, then I went into iMessage and confirmed the call and video buttons or active like they should be.

after that I just edited her contact info from within iMessage and re-added the iCloud email address and everything‘s working fine now.


Just putting this here in case anyone else has this issue as I found no solutions for it online.

Posted on Mar 13, 2024 08:09 PM

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Posted on May 29, 2024 01:19 PM

THANK YOU!!! This has been bugging me for awhile now! It was also effecting the shared location or the "map" within messages as well (but not an issue from the 'find my' app). Fixed all issues!!

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Jun 10, 2024 05:59 AM in response to margundr

I’ve recently noticed this with one contact on my phone. The contact I call all the time. It’s happened before but can’t remember how I’d resolved the issue. Everything on my phone is in working order so couldn’t figure why just one person. I did last time delete all the extra contact information (iCloud) from this contact and left just the phone. I believe this contact to have a corrupted email which they have been hacked before. Thank you for reminding me and so I can block the email (gmail) this time around.

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Call and Video greyed out on iMessage contact [SOLVED]

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