Q: Text Message forwarding, and iMessage not working on iMac
Hi everyone, here's a weird one... I have an early 2009 iMac, now running OS X 10.11.5, which had been in storage for a year. I also have an iPhone 6 Plus running iOS 9.3.2 (but this problem existed with the non beta OSs)
Back before my Mac was in storage, when I got a phone call you could answer it on the Mac, and I could send and receive iMessages and text messages from the Mac.
Since getting the Mac setup again, this no longer works. The Messages app on the iMac shows messages from a year ago. Then one day an iMessage appeared as I also got in on the phone. This happened for two people. Now those newer messages don't even show up. And my son's phone, which is an Android, can't be reached. Even though I see his old messages too. It says he can't be verified in iMessage. I do see iMessages in Notification Center though.
When I try to set up Text Message Forwarding from my iPhone, my iMac is on the list four times! If I select any of those, Messages launches on my iMac, and that's as far as I get. I never get the code or anything. Another weird thing is sometimes when my iPhone gets a call, iTunes launches and starts playing music!
I've tried signing out of iCloud on both devices, etc. The other thing is while my photos and music synch via iCloud, my iBooks on my iPhone no longer show up in iBooks on my Mac (most are PDFs I've saved), and my text shortcuts are also gone.
The iMac recently had the hard drive replaced, and restored from my Time Machine backup. This stuff didn't work before that either, but the iBooks were there.
I seem to remember the first time I got this working a few years ago I had to call Apple, and they unclogged something with iCloud...
I've read lots of suggestions; from resetting the network on the iPhone to renaming the devices...
iMac, OS X El Capitan (10.11.4), 2.93 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, 8GB, 1TB
Posted on Apr 20, 2016 12:38 PM











