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why does it says "imessage is not available because imessage and icloud are 2 different accounts" when i tried to enable imessage on icloud?

MacBook Air 13", macOS 10.13

Posted on May 7, 2019 5:15 AM

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Posted on May 7, 2019 5:18 AM

Are you signed into System Preferences/iCloud and Messages/Preferences/Accounts using the same Apple ID?

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May 7, 2019 5:18 AM in response to lakana16

Are you signed into System Preferences/iCloud and Messages/Preferences/Accounts using the same Apple ID?

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May 7, 2019 7:15 AM in response to lakana16

Try signing out of Messages and then sign back in. See if you have done everything in this article.

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May 7, 2019 5:19 AM in response to lakana16

.

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lakana16 Author

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May 7, 2019 5:21 AM in response to Eric Root

Yh

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lakana16 Author

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May 7, 2019 5:25 AM in response to Eric Root

yes

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May 7, 2019 7:16 AM in response to lakana16

.

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