Messages does not show which number I am contacting

Wu Tang Clams wrote:

Messages app does not show which number I am contacting. When I click info, it shows the contact with nitrile numbers but there is no “recent” indicating which of their numbers I am messaging. How else can I elicit which number or iCloud I am communicating with in messages? Ios27.0

The 'recent' label was removed a few updates ago, I'm afraid. One workaround is to 'split' the number(s) into separate contacts and see which 'contact' the messages reorganize into (that is, take one of the pieces of contact info from the contact, make a new contact with that number or email, then remove it temporarily from the original contact and see which 'contact' the most recent messages appear under).

You can give Apple feedback here, if you'd like: Feedback - Messages - Apple

I thought I was going nuts. Thanks for confirming that feature was removed. It doesn't make any sense at all to remove the indicator telling you which phone number you are texting, how did they make iOS worse in these new updates? I see there are multiple threads on this issue and I've submitted my own feedback to bring back the phone number indicator