using ipad as main texting device with no iphone involved
This one is a bit of a confusing request for info so i'm sorry if it comes off strange.
My uncle would like his mother, my grandmother, to be able to use her ipad as her main texting device. She has verizon. The problem is that she does NOT have an iphone. She has an old school flip phone.
Is there a workaround to make this possible? Could I have verizon forward all her text messages to her apple ID email so it can show up in imessages? If that is possible would we be able to edit her phone numbers to send texts through email BACK to a regular phone number?
That's where it gets weird. So here goes
Receiving
- friend texts grandma.
- Verizon, possibly, forwards text to grandma's email (appleID registered email)
- Text shows up in imessages
Sending
- Grandma composes text and sends on ipad via imessage to one of her friends that also presumably does not have an iphone. (Phone numbers will have to be edited to be in verizon email form which would be something like 8081234567@vtext.com)
- imessage sends text to modified email address and verizon makes sure it gets sent to the phone number via the "vtext" address.
- text shows up on grandma's friend's device.
I mean...is this even a thing? Is that REMOTELY possible? Again, i'm sorry if this is confusing and thanks ahead of time for any help anyone out there can offer.
