My telephone number disappeared from ipad imessage how do. I checked apples status page and all services appear to be. To fix this problem, try turning off imessage settings messages, then restart. How to change your imessage phone number techradar. When you send an imessage via icloud, it goes to either an email address or a phone number. Once your device has restarted, turn on the switch. Add or remove your phone number in messages or facetime. The app delivers the messages multiple times without your knowledge. This removes all phone numbers from your ipad, ipod touch, and mac. With imessages in icloud, you can more easily sync, backup, and store data from your imessage conversations to insure continuity of conversation between iphone, ipad, and mac. You can use the phone number of your iphone with messages and facetime on your mac, ipad, or ipod touch. Everything went just fine with the 5, but the 4s now assigned to my wifes number keeps trying to activate imessage and facetime using my number. No longer want to use this existing imessage phone number. Set up imessage on the ipad to allow text messaging.
However, imessage settings still reflect the temporary number vzw gave me. Adding as little as one dollar fixed this problem for quite a few folks with payasyougo iphone plans. When she sends me a message it comes through as an imessage but from her number that has been cancelled. And a nice feature of messages is that you can configure it to use your email address, your phone number, or both. When imessage is not working properly, there typically is a problem in apples cloud services. You might need to wait a moment for it to activate. Text messages being delivered to wrong iphone ilounge. When there is something wrong with iphone, we always attempt to fix it by simply turning off and on the iphone. Just like, i decide to select my phone number on the iphone, this means i will be able to choose my phone number on my mac also my ipad. Now her number has changed imessage does not recognise her number as an iphone. Im trying to send imessages from my iphone 6, but when i do, it says theyre coming from my icloud email rather than my phone number.
The best hidden iphone and ipad features we can find. Reenter settings and go to phone, add the dialing code before your number and then go to imessage and wait for activation. If the above solution hasnt resolved the problem, reactivate imessage. I restarted my iphone 4s, restarted the ipad 3rd gen and then went to imessage in settings, turned it off and then on again first time it wouldnt flip the switch but the 2nd time it worked and after asking me to verify my apple id password all the sudden i saw the option of enabling my phone number and my. For the same reason, we can try to get the imessage working by doing the same if being prompted with ios 10.
The phone number listed in her settings is greyed out, how can it be changed. How to remove phone number from imessage on iphoneipadmac. Download ios12 so we can make your phone infinitely slower. Head to settingsmessage imessage, then turn imessage off on your iphone or ipad. Ive reset network settings, rebooted the phone, tried turning imessage and facetime onoff. If you encounter this problem on your iphone, try these. When you see the checkmark, that should solve the problem. Since your iphone uses sms activation for imessage, you must have credit with your carrier to send an sms text to verify your phone number and other information with apple. Deleting incorrect phone number from imessage on ipad 2. First, connect your iphone to wifi or cellular data.
This number may have been from an old iphone that you were using before or you may have switched sim cards and the number associated with your old sim is still displaying on. To fix this problem, try turning off imessage settings messages, then restart your phone by pressing and holding the onoff button, tap settings phone my number and confirm that it is correct. Read on to change phone number in imessage on your iphone and ipad so that. Watch this video to learn how to set up and activate imessage on your iphone or ipad. Go to phone from settings, and delete the dialing code. First, open the setting application in your iphone or ipad device. Try and send an imessage once your iphone or ipad finishes. And imessage can only be sent to another iphone, ipad, ipod touch, or mac. One of the problems affecting imessage on ios 9 is getting the same message two or three times. Now go to the main menu and tap the settings of device. Apple update makes fear of texting the wrong person a reality. If an update available here, you just click download and install.
Apples seventhgeneration ipad, introduced in september 2019, was an iterative update to the sixthgeneration lowcost ipad, with a larger 10. How do i change a phone number connected to the ipad imessage. I tried to change the number but its greyout no option to select it. To make sure you are doing the right thing, check out this article to learn how to switch between two numbers for imessage and facetime. My girlfriend sometimes sends me texts that show up as imessages and i dont get those on my gs3.
Below are of the best, hidden features we found in ios. For gsm phones, remove your sim card and reinsert it. Go through default setting list shown in the app and tap the messages option. Unfortunately, apple is merging separate peoples phone numbers and. To send an sms message, you need cellular network connection. If you want to remove phone number from imessage, then read and. I tried all the below and finally got imessage to work correctly. Sign in to your apple id with facetime and imessage.
The phone works fine but imessage and facetime are not working because the number is not correct. If i get an ipad with cellular is it possible to use the iphone phone number as the imessage contact on the ipad. Go to settings messages and make sure that imessage is on. Go to imessage and see whether your phone number is still loading. Here you will see my number option just click on it and enter your mobile number. How to troubleshoot and fix problems with imessage imore. Phone number loading in you can be reached by imessage at. The problem of imessage displaying wrong phone number on iphone usually occurs following an ios update and when users try to activate imessage and. Calls or messages for the removed numbers wont appear on those devices anymore. If youre changed numbers recently, your iphone or imessage may show you the wrong number.
My ipad is connected to my sons old iphone instead of mine he set ipad up as gift. Any easy way to communicate over both cellular and wifi data networks, imessage works on all of your apple devices. Imessage shows old number the solution i found is to clear the cache of iphone. If your phone number is not available then follow the below steps. Since imessage and facetime only support onesim usage at a time, follow the next steps to learn how to switch between two numbers for imessage and facetime. I set up my ipad so that it would accept text messages from my iphone 5s phone number. 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. Sign out of apple id in icloud, imessage, and facetime. It should click for you and the messages should begin to appear in the right order. First of all close the all present running application in ipad 2. How to switch between two numbers for imessage and facetime. How to change imessage phone number on iphone and set up.
Your phone will perform a check on your phone number, and your imessage should start functioning correctly. With the new benefit of streamlining in ios 12, all of their messages to. Tap settings phone my number and verify that your phone number is correct. How do i change the phone number id on imessage on ipad. Puzzled, i checked the settings on my iphone, only to find both. It will get rid of the phone number from all of your synced idevices like iphone, ipad, and mac. When i send her a message it sends as a standard text message. How to make imessage and facetime work when you switch sim.
Howto guides and tips on ios powered devices iphone and. To send a message as imessage or mms, you need a cellular data or wifi connection. If the phone number that you want to remove belongs to an iphone that you cant access, change your apple id password. If you turn on wifi calling, you can send sms messages over wifi check with your carrier to see if the type of message youre trying to send, like mms or sms, is. When they attempt to send an imessage, an error popup appears. Here is how to change app store country on iphone or ipad, in case you are moving to a new country or want to download apps, music, books and movies fix. How to update new number on imessage and facetime youtube. While earlier versions of ios used to separate texts and imessage from different emails or phone numbers associated with a single apple id, in ios 12 your device automatically detects if a phone number or email address is linked to a single apple id, and if so, keeps all texts and messages from those emails and numbers in the same conversation.
As the title suggests, im unable to activate imessage and facetime on my iphone 6. On your iphone, youre shown your phone number at the top in the phone app. Fix imessage displays the wrong phone number check your balance. I turned off imessage on my ipad i was getting her messages there and that worked, but now sometimes shell send messages that dont show up as imessages but i still dont get all of them. This was supposed to address the split thread problem that has plagued imessage for years. Hi this might help if i message is displaying the wrong number. I want to use my iphone number for imessage on both devices. Just in case, the phone number you want to remove is set on the iphone that is currently not accessible to you, change the password of your apple id.
On your ipad go to settings messages enable imessage. Ive spent a whole day trying to figure this out with no success. If your phone number still isnt listed, follow these steps. Any messages i send on my ipad, he gets on his phone, even when the number is not checked in settings. Restarting your iphone or ipad can fix a lot of problems, and imessage connection problems isnt excluded. If there is an update available, click download to install it. In order to reboot your iphone or ipad, just hold down the home button and power button simultaneously and dont let go until you see the apple logo. Phone number is not registered with imessage, fix macreports. Sign out of your apple id on all ios devices, including your iphone, in the following locations.