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uandme72

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iOS Settings > Messages > SMS Forwarding > macOS Device and iPadOS is listed, but there is no toggle button against the macOS device logged in to the same iMessage and iCloud account. Instead it has a message stating "These devices can automatically forward text messages when Messages in iCloud is turned on."
All devices are updated to latest iOS, macOS, iPadOS.
Anyone else?
 

uandme72

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Mar 2, 2015
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The toggle button appears for SMS forwarding in iPhone against any device in the following conditions:

1.) the iPhone is formatted and restored as new, after that device was logged in to iCloud with same ID. In other words, the iPhone logs in to iCloud and Messages in iCloud in the last out of all devices; or

2.) the messages in iCloud is toggled "Off" in the respective device.

While the above condition (2) is somewhat logical, the condition at (1) does not seem to have any basis.
 
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