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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ChrisJ4203

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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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ChrisJ4203

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Nov 26, 2019 2:33 PM in response to Shadow0612

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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