Sync text messages with iOS?

[Rafagon]

Like anyone else, I receive SMSs and iMessages on my iPhone.

When I turn on my MacBook Pro, all those SMSs and iMessages make their alert sound, even though I've already read them on my iPhone.

Additionally, I delete SMSs on my iPhone, yet when I turn on my MacBook Pro, the threads I deleted on my iPhone are still there on the Messages application on my laptop.

Is there any way to have the text messages and iMessages I've read on my iPhone automatically be marked as read on my MacBook Pro?

Secondly, is there any way that when I delete threads on my Messages app on my iPhone, they could automatically be deleted on the Messages app on my MacBook Pro?

It seems redundant that I'm deleting threads on my iPhone and then I have to also go and delete them on my MacBook Pro.

Surely there's a solution? Any help would be appreciated.

 

[mj_]

You need to enable Messages in iCloud on all devices. That way they should synchronize across all of them, which includes read/unread status as well as deletions.

 

[0288832]

Messages in the Cloud doesn't work for SMS, only for iMessage. The iphone is basically forwarding SMS messages to the other devices. You have to manuallly delete from all devices. It is super annoying.

 

[TrenttonY]

Messages in the Cloud doesn't work for SMS, only for iMessage. The iphone is basically forwarding SMS messages to the other devices. You have to manuallly delete from all devices. It is super annoying.

Wrong

 

[0288832]

Intelligent response. I have imessage in the cloud turned on for each device. I get a text message on my phone that shows up on all devices. I delete it from my phone. The text message still remains on all other devices. For iMessages, it disappears from all devices, showing iMessage (not text message) in the cloud is working.

If that is wrong please provide details on how you got it to work.

 

[mj_]

He's right, you're wrong. Messages in iCloud works for both text and iMessage messages. If I delete a text message on my phone it disappears on all other devices. If I delete a text message on either of my Macs it disappears on all other devices. There wasn't anything I had to do to "get it to work". I simply enabled it on all devices and that was it.

 

[0288832]

He may be right and I am good admitting when I am wrong, but at least you had the intelligence to provide a detailed response.

I turned imessage off on all my devices and back on, and now the text messages are deleting properly, with one big exception...my apple watch still requires a manual delete.