My iPad Air will not recieve messages when sent to my iphone or mirror my iphone messages, eventhough it will take calls.

wdavidpickett wrote:

My iPad Air will not recieve messages when sent to my iphone or mirror my iphone messages, eventhough it will take calls.

You need to set this up Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support

If you have an iPhone - and both iPad and iPhone are signed-in to iCloud with the same AppleID - to send SMS/MMS messages (green bubbles) from your iPad you must explicitly enable Text Message Forwarding for your iPad on your iPhone...

On your iPhone:

Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to ON - and explicitly enable your iPad from the list of devices.

Also ensure that Messages in iCloud is enabled on both your iPhone and iPad:

Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to ON