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Right now and way too many times before, when I update my iPhone and or IPad I stop being able to text non-IPhone people. I have read all the help files and done all the things. All devices are signed into the same apple id. SMS on and text forwarding to other devices on. I turned the devices off and back on. I shut down messages on both. No luck. URGH!
iPhone X
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. Verify these settings...
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
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. Verify these settings...
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
The path to the setting was fully described in my original reply 🙂
For some reason it was not visible on my phone. I turned off iMessage and turned it on again and restarted the phone and it showed up. Go figure ...
Swirian wrote:
There is no option to choose when forwarding is on. It just asks for a number to forward to :(
I think you're looking in the wrong place. It sounds as if you're looking at call forwarding.
On your iPhone, go to Settings>Messages. Then, select Text Message Fowarding.
There is no option to choose when forwarding is on. It just asks for a number to forward to :(
vivek_iphone wrote:
to send SMS you need to have a cellular connection on your iPad.
Not so. Without being used with an iPhone, an iPad - whether a Cellular model or not - is not capable of directly accessing Cellular Voice or SMS/MMS Messaging features.
An iPad with either WiFi or Cellular connectivity alone can only access IP-data services. If a Cellular plan has been added to a WiFi+Cellular model of iPad, the number associated with the SIM/eSIM is only used to identify the Cellular account for billing purposes. This number is cannot used for making calls or sending messages.
Newone12 wrote:
First post I have ever trusted. When is LotusPilot hired.
Good question. Ask Apple 🙂
THANKS!!! Found it!!!
So glad to hear it!
to send SMS you need to have a cellular connection on your iPad.
First post I have ever trusted. When is LotusPilot hired.
Can’t text non iPhone people from my iPad
