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LydiaJ
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I have a Samsung Galaxy A3 (2016). It has recently updated its operating system to Android 7.0, and I'm having trouble with text messages.

I prefer to have my contacts sorted by surname, so I have the settings that way. It's fine in the native Android Contacts widget. It's fine if I go to Phone and then tap Contacts. But if I open the text messages thing, and then tap Contacts, it shows them ordered by first name. I can't work out how to change that.

Secondly, if I do tap on a contact, and then tap on Message, it defaults to sending the text to the person's landline. It never used to do that before the update. In theory I could go through each person and change the default phone number to the mobile, but like most people, I've got a lot of contacts, and I'd rather not. Is there any way to tell it that when sending text messages, default to the mobile number? It seems such an obvious thing - who wants to text people's landlines, anyway?

Thanks for any help anyone can provide.
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