Sharing links via Samsung Messages defaults to email

[SARCtech]

Another annoying problem I am having with my Note 10 + device. When I go to share a link (can be from the google app or from chrome), I get the sharing panel and select Samsung Messages, then I select a contact and each time I do this instead of it defaulting to the mobile number of the contact to send them a text it defaults to their email address ...sending them a text to their email address???

I am coming from a Google Pixel and I am trying to get familiar with the Samsung apps but this is a really annoying problem. Is there a setting I am missing somewhere? Due to this issue I am unable to share links via text message....I have to copy and paste the link instead which is annoying.

 

[msm0511]

Another annoying problem I am having with my Note 10 + device. When I go to share a link (can be from the google app or from chrome), I get the sharing panel and select Samsung Messages, then I select a contact and each time I do this instead of it defaulting to the mobile number of the contact to send them a text it defaults to their email address ...sending them a text to their email address???

I am coming from a Google Pixel and I am trying to get familiar with the Samsung apps but this is a really annoying problem. Is there a setting I am missing somewhere? Due to this issue I am unable to share links via text message....I have to copy and paste the link instead which is annoying.

I've not had that happen to me. Mine always share via text.

 

[Disk4mat]

Ok, I tried following your steps and here is what happened for me.

Opened Chrome. Menu > Share
Tapped Messages from the list of apps
Tapped a contact
Popup screen displayed and asked
- Phone
- Email

The buttons on that dialog were:

Select | Set as default

So on my Note 10+ I was presented with the choice to choose phone number or email. Also whether to set the phone number to be the default.

I set phone as default and now my messaging app is always choosing the phone number instead of a choice between phone or email for the contact in question. Effectively I now have your problem in the reverse

Now for contacts that did not have a phone number, the email address was inserted into the SMS "To" field. The only thing I can figure that might solve your problem is:

Settings > Apps > Email (tap for info) > Set as default > Clear defaults.

Im thinking your email app got set to default for handling all email addresses. We arent talking about GMail right?