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Not Getting iPhone Messages on Macs

I have two issues. I have two Macs set up to get SMS and iMessages from my iPhone.


  1. My kids have Android Phones. All of their texts to me arrive on my iPhone, but not my Macs.
  2. One of My Macs is not getting any iMessages that arrive on my iPhone.


This all has worked for years. None of my settings have changed. I have logged out of my Apple ID, iCloud. Restarted. Nothing is working. thank you

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.15

Posted on Feb 19, 2020 6:07 AM

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Feb 19, 2020 6:44 AM in response to garywi

Text messages, SMS or MMS, transmit only thru the voice link of a telephone if the carrier has enabled the service on the phone number. So a computer will never receive one directly and a cellular phone will need to do the forwarding from the voice to the data link. Hence Demo's suggestion to shake out the iPhone and see if that restarts the process.

Not Getting iPhone Messages on Macs

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