+1 in messages

[shayspurgeon]

A friend of mine said everytime i send him a text it pops up my name with +1 beside it, he said only one other person in his contacts does the same tjing. Does anybody know what that means

 

[AugieTN]

1 before the area code to call? Just a guess

 

[Dannydet]

Maybe he has you twice in his contacts app?

 

[ocnbrze]

what phone does your friend have?

 

[svim]

If that +1 was part of the phone number that would be less puzzling but being part of your name is odd. It's not likely to be something to eliminate on your end (not your phone nor your carrier-based phone number) but something that needs to be done on the receiver end. Either some otherwise random setting in your friend's Contacts app (your name in their contacts list) or whatever text messaging app they're using.
If everyone or at least several other people you exchange text messages with also see a +1 with your name I.D. than that could indicate it was on your end, but since your friend is encountering this issue with another person too it's more likely to be something they need to fix. Ask them to look closely in their Contacts app listing to see if their are any odd characters that might might have been inadvertently added to your name and that other person's name. It could be an issue where their text messaging app is just substituting that odd character with a +1.