The issue is that messaging from my Mac sometimes works and other times does not work. The rest of this message are things I currently believe but an not sure. The hope of this post is to get more definite answers.
It appears that I could not text one particular person from my Mac but it would work from my iPhone. Previously, I think it was a more general problem texting (Messaging) from my Mac but I'm not trusting those older memories and beliefs. I don't recall ever any issues text / messaging from my iPhone.
All devices are set to store messages in iCloud.
The particular person is not on an iPhone so the text messages I assume are being converted to SMS messages. What is curious is that the "not working" is intermittent. In the past, I've tried logging out of my iCloud account in Messages and back in and various other reboot / reset / reconfigure things but nothing really seemed to work.
What has appeared to have resolved the issue is I changed the contact information from "1+ (xxx) yyy-zzzz" to just "(xxx) yyy-zzzz" and now it seems to be working. The contact info is in iCloud so it is synced with my iPhone. Messaging / texting with the person has always worked from my iPhone but was intermittent from the Mac. My current theory is this is two things: 1) the target is not an Apple user so the Message is being converted to SMS and 2) the Mac doesn't know what to do with a target number of "1+ ..." while the iPhone does.
Can anyone help me to understand this better? Do my conclusions seem valid?
Also, related but separate: Somehow, the "1+ ..." entries are not something that I've created because I would never add the 1+ when I am typing in a number. What is best to do? Add the "1+" or not? My experience so far is that adding them causes problems for messaging from a Mac.
It appears that I could not text one particular person from my Mac but it would work from my iPhone. Previously, I think it was a more general problem texting (Messaging) from my Mac but I'm not trusting those older memories and beliefs. I don't recall ever any issues text / messaging from my iPhone.
All devices are set to store messages in iCloud.
The particular person is not on an iPhone so the text messages I assume are being converted to SMS messages. What is curious is that the "not working" is intermittent. In the past, I've tried logging out of my iCloud account in Messages and back in and various other reboot / reset / reconfigure things but nothing really seemed to work.
What has appeared to have resolved the issue is I changed the contact information from "1+ (xxx) yyy-zzzz" to just "(xxx) yyy-zzzz" and now it seems to be working. The contact info is in iCloud so it is synced with my iPhone. Messaging / texting with the person has always worked from my iPhone but was intermittent from the Mac. My current theory is this is two things: 1) the target is not an Apple user so the Message is being converted to SMS and 2) the Mac doesn't know what to do with a target number of "1+ ..." while the iPhone does.
Can anyone help me to understand this better? Do my conclusions seem valid?
Also, related but separate: Somehow, the "1+ ..." entries are not something that I've created because I would never add the 1+ when I am typing in a number. What is best to do? Add the "1+" or not? My experience so far is that adding them causes problems for messaging from a Mac.