How To Register A Phone Number With Imessage On Ipad Air

Texts you send and receive using imessage don t count against your sms mms allowances in your cellular messaging plan but cellular data rates may apply.

How to register a phone number with imessage on ipad air. In the messages app you can send text messages as sms mms messages through your cellular service or with imessage over wi fi or cellular service to people who use iphone ipad ipod touch or a mac. Using cell phone number on imessage. Tap send receive. Seeing as they are the 3g versions i was wondering if there is a way of setting up imessage to accept messages sent to the sim card numbers inserted into the ipads. Then on your other ios devices ipad and ipod you could now turn on the phone number that you just set up.

The catch however is that you can t actually set an arbitrary phone number on these devices it has to be registered from an actual iphone. 1 you can be reached section and 2 and start new conversations section. Set up your phone number. Go to settings facetime option to open the you can be reached at section to select your phone number and apple id. Tap the heading that reads send receive just below the send read receipts setting.

Your friend is somewhat correct in that apple did add the ability to use phone numbers for imessage and facetime on non iphone devices such as the ipod touch. Go to settings messages and make sure that imessage is on. Currently imessage doesn t recognise these numbers as a imessage compatible numbers and i have to rely on using the e mail addresses which most of the time prove to be problematic. If you see use your apple id for imessage tap it and sign in with the same apple id that you use on your mac ipad and ipod touch. There are two sections here.

I know there is a feature which allows me to send imessages from my ipad using my phone number but am unable to find it. I was wondering if there is a way to use my cell phone number on imessage on my ipad 2. The next screen will let you set up the addresses people can contact you at using imessage. If you have an iphone attached to your apple id you should see the phone number listed here. Please ensure that your phone number and your apple id is selected in the you can be reached section.

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