When attempting to write a text message on my Android, I received a message that said “Invalid recipient — Unable to add this recipient. The recipient’s number is not valid.” when adding a contact to the message.
Though the phone number looked correct, the problem is often caused by spaces or invalid characters in the phone number.
Remove any hyphens, spaces or brackets from the phone number and just use all numbers to fix this problem.
You may want to open the Contacts app and correct any other contacts that have invalid characters. This is a consistent problem if you imported your contacts from another system or phone.
Darline Hart says
So by country code does that mean for instance, the 1 in front of the 3 digit area code?
Nick Sewaney says
Solution to INVALID RECIPIENT: I had similar problem but in few days solved it. How?
All you have to do is add country code before each cellphone no. in your contact!!!! power off power on, THAT IS IT
YOUR PROBLEM IS SOLVED.
greg says
this was a frustrating message thanks for the fix.
David says
On my phone it was because I had entered the number as a Home Phone instead of Mobile Phone in Contacts.
Benjamin says
Same problem as HAL. Contacts app automatically put parenthesis in. How do you fix this?
hal says
I have edited the phone number in the contacts and the os puts in the parenthesis and hyphens
Can’t figure a way to eliminate those symbols.
Still getting the error message
Lexi says
How do you fix this on a bulk level?? Going through individually is going to be crazy
Linda Hudson says
The name c2 show up I did not put that in. It says Invalid recipient unable to add this recipient. The recipients number is not valid. There is not a number even there. How do I get this c2 off here I didn’t put it on here?