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I am switching from a Samsung Galaxy s6 to an iPhone X and want to transfer my SMS and MMS to the new phone.

should be easy? not so much, every method I have tried seems to have one problem or another.

I first tried the Apple app, "move to iOS" which is designed for this purpose. it transferred my messages but added an extra phone number to each of the group messages. I can't figure out how to remove this extra number (it's actually my phone number).

I tried using [redacted], each did not work.

HELP