A few months back I had to factory reset my Mac Mini.
Everything seems fine other than in iMessage where everyone’s phone numbers show up but not their name. Messages are syncing fine - it’s just the name of the sender that is not showing up.
I’ve checked under settings that contacts are syncing over iCloud. Has anyone got any thoughts on what I’m doing wrong?
You might check to see which account and/or number you have set to send and receive from. I’ve noticed that if those differ between devices, you may get odd behavior like this.
I just got a new MacBook Pro. When I was getting things set up, I had on my to-do list to open each of Apple’s apps and let them “catch up”. Photos was surprisingly fast (though may only have had low-res copies at first) but the slowest was Messages.
I put it off as a problem to solve later and by the time I steeled myself to take another look it had sorted itself out. I think it was over a day after I first started up the new laptop. Yours may just need some “alone time” to get itself together.