Text Message Forwarding permanently on

When I checked Text Message Forwarding, I found a message stating "These devices can automatically forward text messages when Messages in iCloud is turned on." Intriguingly, there's no toggle to switch it off...

Interestingly, this page is the only hit Google gives for the message in bold. It also shows up on my iPhone 13. Text Messaging is switched on for my MacBook Pro (M2), but it's grayed out, so I can't toggle the switch if I wanted to.

Unfortunately, though I have been able to sync my Messages on MacBook and iPhone, I don't receive text messages on my MacBook until I manually sync or the app later syncs itself as scheduled, and more often than not I have to manually sync my MacBook to get it up to date. In other words, texts are not forwarding as I receive them, which makes the Messages app on my MacBook kinda useless for communication.

Would love to find a solution!

Have same issue here on new M1 MacBook Air, can figure out or understand this, tried multiple things like toggling Messages in iCloud on this machine and even signing out of iCloud completely, still no change.

This is interesting - still the only hit on Google when searching for this issue, and it's turned on for my M1 iMac, and not my M1P MacBook Pro or my iPhone 15.

Each totally updated. How bizarre.

Any chance you found a solution to this? I'm disappointed to be setting up my new M3 pro here and finding the same text message issue.

This exact same thing is happening to me too. I can’t figure out how to turn it off. So annoying!