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Text Message Forwarding
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so looks like you have to be sign to iMassage in order to have text massage ForwardingWhy ? I don't like iMassage it means if my friends are out of mobile data they will not get my Massage instantly SMS to my is much more relailable
Because it uses iMessage to actually transfer the message from your computer to your phone so that it can be sent as an SMS. Same goes for the other direction as well, SMS message gets converted to an iMessage to be sent to your computer.
The text message forwarding setting should only be on your iPhone, then you select the iPad as your device on the iPhone.
Another user pointed out that these "ghost devices" will disappear from that list if you change your Apple ID password. Worked for me. Be warned that you won't be able to change back to your original password though.
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Wasn't working and I had to Toggle on/off BOTH iMessage and FaceTime. I actually noticed that my phone number was not available in either beforehand, it was grayed out and not checked, but afterwards it was blue and checked. Then I was presented with the option for Text Message Forwarding under Messages and the one-time code dialog appeared in Messages on the Macbook.
Wasn't working and I had to Toggle on/off BOTH iMessage and FaceTime. I actually noticed that my phone number was not available in either beforehand, it was grayed out and not checked, but afterwards it was blue and checked. Then I was presented with the option for Text Message Forwarding under Messages and the one-time code dialog appeared in Messages on the Macbook.
I definitely don't have that setting. Goes right from "iMessage" to "send read receipts". Do I have to be at home where it can sense my other device (my iPad)? I'm at work with just my iPhone. Maybe when I upgrade my iPad to 8.1 it will show up?
I definitely want this -- as sometimes I get text message on phone only, but I have my iPad on me (phone is in other room).
Yes, it relays the SMS message from your iPhone to other devices...on your mac, it shows up in iMessages and looks like iMessages, but those SMS messages are actually being forwarded from your iPhone.
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YES! It needs to see the other device on the same wifi! Solved!
Well, yes. You'd need your cell provider to support WiFi calling to receive SMS when not in a signal area.
When you get home, and it sees the iPad on the same wifi, that setting will appear on your iPhone.
No i mean like text people who dont have imessage from my mac when my phone is in airplane mode.
I am out of the country and keep my US line on airplane mode. I tired to text my android friends from my mbpr and it didnt work.
iMessage on my Mac cant start an SMS conversation. It will always given an error saying that number is not registered with iMessage. If I start an SMS from my phone, it works fine...
Why cant i start an SMS conversation from iMessage on my mac?
Why cant i start an SMS conversation from iMessage on my mac?
Of course not, because you mac isnt sending any smses, its just giving commands to the iphone from where it actually gets sent.
Strange. That works for me. Sounds like a bug... :-(
Update: It worked before, but now I'm getting the same message as you!! Buggy....
Update: To get this to work, I need to have my icloud email address activated for iMessage in my phone - without it the SMS relay doesn't work!! buggy, buggy......
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lol EXACTLY my dumba$$ thought that the new feature would use wifi hahahaha
great update though.
Just downloaded public Yosemite and got rid of the BETA and did iOS8.1 same time.....man Apple got my vote of confidence back. That first ios 8 was freaking me out with my plus and the bugs i had.
iPhone Cellular Call forwarding now not working
Gosh, I got the Text Message Forwarding to work using tips from this thread, but now there is somehow a bug from this that turns off iPhone Cellular Calling on my iPhone and won't let me turn it back on because it says iCloud and FaceTime need to be using the same Apple ID, which they are....ugh...
Anybody else having this issue after upgrading to Text Message Forwarding?
Gosh, I got the Text Message Forwarding to work using tips from this thread, but now there is somehow a bug from this that turns off iPhone Cellular Calling on my iPhone and won't let me turn it back on because it says iCloud and FaceTime need to be using the same Apple ID, which they are....ugh...
Anybody else having this issue after upgrading to Text Message Forwarding?
And this is why I continue to use Google Voice. It just always works on every operating system including iOS and Linux and has for years and years and it's free. Nothing else even comes close.
Hell it even works on my 2009 windows mobile phone. Still.
I actually just found the solution to the problem using the same solution for the Text message forwarding....select an email address and then you can turn it back on....go figure.
Edit: Hmmmm, it appears that in this case, unlike the text message forwarding issue, you cannot then deselect the email address once iPhone Cellular Calling is turned back on because the iPhone Cellular Calls setting will turn off again.