My new iPad Mini 6 will not allow me to send or receive texts/messages from those who do not have an Apple product, help how do I make this work? It works on my iPhone and old iPad, why not the iPad Mini 6?

My new iPad Mini 6 will not allow me to send or receive texts/messages from those who do not have an Apple product, help how do I make this work? It works on my iPhone and old iPad, why not the iPad Mini 6?

iPad, iOS 9

Posted on Oct 26, 2022 01:54 PM

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Posted on Oct 26, 2022 03:52 PM

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 new 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



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Oct 26, 2022 03:52 PM in response to Ldevo

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 new 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



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