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SMS on iPad

How do you turn on regular SMS on the iPad Pro?

Posted on Nov 26, 2019 2:28 PM

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Posted on Nov 26, 2019 2:33 PM

You would need to do that from your iPhone. If you do not have an iPhone, you cannot use SMS. If you do have the iPhone, then go to Settings>Messages>Text Message Forwarding, then select the iPad.

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