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Not syncing Messages
For some reason Sequoia isn't syncing my wife's messages, or text messages I get on the iPhone. If I reboot it will but shutting it down and restarting it doesn't, and nor does clicking Sync in preferences. 15.0.1 (24A348) M1 MBP- woolypants
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- Forum: macOS Sequoia (15)
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Unable to send iMessage in IOS 17 and IOS 18, receive ok
Unable to send iMessage in IOS 17 and IOS 18, receive ok At some point in IOS 17.6 I was no longer able to send iMessages on my iPhone 13 Pro Max. The iMessage send will always fail. Sometimes it will automatically switch to SMS, sometimes I have to manually send SMS (click ! to sent to SMS)...- dmorsberger
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- Forum: iOS 18
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How to remove duplicate devices in "text message forwarding" on iPhone
Hi, Anyone knows how to remove duplicate devices in "text message forwarding" on iPhone with iOS 17.6 without changing iCloud account password? Text message forwarding was disable when I made the update to iOS 17.6. Thanks -
iPhone 13 Pro Max Problems with new eSIM
My son is in Taiwan. Before he was in Vietnam. He took out his AT&T SIM and put in another local carrier. That worked fine. Messages and everything was happy. When he went to Taiwan, he changed to an eSIM and now Messages won’t work for him on his iPhone at all. It works on his Mac. He... -
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Share Text Message
Both phones are on iOS 17. I want to share a text message with another person. Another words, I get a text message from Chase Bank. On my phone, I want to share the contact (phone number) and message with my daughter. I know I can share the contact with her but I want to share the message as... -
Why can't Apple Sonoma Messenger App send a video plus one line text?
19,1 iMac Sonoma 14.2.1, Messages: First Message includes both, 1 - 40MB video: 2560x1440 H.264 HD(1-1-1) 30 sec + 1 short line of text. FAILURE I spend a few hours trying to find a better convertor app. Finally get the idea to send the video first alone. SUCCESS Send the simple line of text...- blackxacto
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Messages notification badges do not clear after first viewing message
iPhone 15 Pro I saw this issue in iOS 17.1.1 and 17.1.2 If I get a Messages notification alert on the lock screen and tap it, it takes me straight into Messages where I can read the message. However, when I go back out, the red notification badge still shows "1" on the Messages icon. Then... -
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Self deleting text messages from one contact
Text messages to or from one contact auto-delete on my Mac as soon as I try to look at them. On the iPhone everything works normally. On my High Sierra Mac, everything works normally. But on my main Mac which is on Ventura 13.6 right now, I receive notifications of a text, but if I look in...- Amigalander
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Photo won't send - stuck 'Preparing'
FB13210816 I have a bad bug with iOS 17.0.2 on the iPhone 15 Pro Max. This occurs quite often and I have tried to resolve it by doing a fresh install of iOS, not using my iCloud backup. This doesn't fix it though. A lot of the time, when I go to send a photo from the Photos app to someone via... -
Background Processing: Messages, Calendar, Home Accessories, Flashlight
There is one other potentially related post on this, but it only covers the Messages app. I do think this post is important I hope the mods leave it up… I find that for every hour I have messages app in the foreground it’s accompanied by 20-30 minutes of background processing. Not crazy about...- hyperbolic
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- background processing battery usage bug calendar app flashlight hacked home accessories ios 16.4.1 possible bug
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- Forum: iOS 16
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Exporting (i)Messages without black boxes on top of pictures?
What was the last version of Mac's Messages, that you could print out PDF without black boxes on top of pictures? Or in which OS it shipped. I think I'm gonna make a virtualbox installation for that... Unless there's an app that autamatically does it. For starters I'd like to export 500...- toke lahti
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iCloud macOS Ventura Messages Search
I noticed something odd on the messages app specifically on macOS Ventura. If I have messages opened and click the search bar I see suggestions of numbers to interact with. All of them are text numbers and not those tied to iMessages. Most of them are from those spam text messages that have...- Jony Mac
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- Forum: Apple Music, Apple Pay/Card, iCloud, Fitness+
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Custom text tones for Messages on Mac???
Hey I use a different custom ringtone and text tone for my main contacts, including ones I installed myself on iOS using iMazing. This works exactly like it should. However, on macOS, setting tones (in the Contacts app) SEEMS to be limited ONLY to the ones built-in to macOS (and located in...- petekjohnson
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Unsending messages is extremely flawed and buggy
Greetings! As a developer beta tester for Apple, I had the ability to test iOS 16 on June 6 - Present day. Now I would like to talk about the big feature of iOS 16, unsending and editing messages. I was really looking forward to this feature, until I saw that editing and unending for me does...- WilliApple
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Collaborate option in Messages - way to disable?
Now in Messages if you try to send someone an image or video file, it will first show the file as a small little controller that asks if you want to "Send Copy" or "Collaborate" with the person you're sending it to. It seems to default to "Send Copy" for images and "Collaborate" on videos, but...- petekjohnson
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- Forum: macOS Ventura (13)
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Missing iMessages
I went on a week-long cruise and my iPhone was off net and connected only to the cruise Wi-Fi so that I could use their app and get cruise information. I had no Internet and no cellular. During this week, I had some iMessages and some SMS messages sent to me. I figured that once I reconnected to...- MikeMcCollister
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mojave + Opencore Apple services stopped working
Hi Guys, I have been reading MacRumors for over 15 years and love it. Now i need your help. I have a single cpu MP 5.1. Real 5.1 not flashed 4.1. Running Mojave. Saphire rx580 gfx non flashed, stock. Since a year have been using Opencore 0.5.9 by Martin lo to see the boot devices. It worked... -
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iCloud Messages in the Cloud not syncing with all my devices...only some...
Hey all - Does Messages in the Cloud actually work? I have four Apple devices. 2 out of the four seem to have my entire Messages in the Cloud history but my new iPhone 13 Pro Max doesn't seem to have all the message history, yet my new iPad mini does have the entire Messages in the Cloud...- syrcular
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- Forum: Apple Music, Apple Pay/Card, iCloud, Fitness+
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Links don't appear in macOS Messages search & intermittent indexing message
I've had an ongoing issue with macOS Messages app that I can't seem to figure out and hoping someone can help in some way. I currently have a 13" M1 MacBook Pro 16 GB RAM running macOS 11.5.1 however the issues with Messages began in Catalina—if I recall correctly—with a 2019 16" MacBook Pro... -
Messages not delivered from Mac mini
Hello, I'm trying to send text messages from my Mac to someone without an iPhone. On my phone, the messages come through normally. On my Mac, however, the messages are out of sync, do not appear at all, and/or cannot be delivered. iPhone users can read my messages just fine. Any ideas?- boswald
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- Forum: macOS Catalina (10.15)