Q: I don't receive texts on my iMac

Hi

Text messages are run by mobile phone network provider's

Thats why you don't get them on your mac.

Only imessage from apple phones would appear on your mac.

Cheers

Brian

Review how you've set this up:

1. You need iOS 8 or later on your iOS devices and OS X Yosemite or later on your Mac.
2. Sign in to iMessage with the same Apple ID on your iPhone, your other iOS devices, and your Mac.
3. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Add a check to both your phone number and email address. Then go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding and enable the device or devices that you want to forward messages to.
4. Look for a code on the Mac, iPad, or iPod touch that you enabled. Then enter this verification code on your iPhone.

See Use Continuity to connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac - Apple Support

Briansyddall wrote:

 

Hi

Text messages are run by mobile phone network provider's

Thats why you don't get them on your mac.

Only imessage from apple phones would appear on your mac.

Cheers

Brian

Actually Brian, you can receive SMS & MMS text messages on a Mac if you have updated software, and settings on your iPhone set correctly.

Hopefully that resolves it, step #3 is typically where the problem arises ... specifically, having an email address in addition to your phone number as a point of contact for messages.