MMS messaging

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MMS messaging

I have searched high and low for the answer and spent two hours on the phone with Apple (have a call back scheduled tomorrow morning). Does anyone know how to enable MMS on an iPad? Since the update to 13.9 I've been able to text or SMS non apple phones without issue. However this morning I tried to send a picture from my iPad and I get an error that says it cannot send an MMS and I need to enable MMS messaging. Well....on the iPhone there is an option to do this, it appears the iPad mini does not have this same option and so far Apple hasn't been able to figure it out either.

Anyone else having this issue or know how to do this?

Posted on Jul 24, 2020 12:55 PM

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Jul 24, 2020 1:08 PM in response to ramona1109

Unless you also have an iPhone, your iPad cannot send or receive SMS or MMS messages to phone numbers - as these are Cellular Carrier features. Without an iPhone, your iPad is limited to sending/receiving messages via the Apple-proprietary Messages App.

Native iMessages are directed to Apple recipients by their registered email addresses - and not by their Cellular phone numbers. The Cellular number associated with your iPad’s Data-SIM is only used for account identification and billing purposes.

To use SMS/MMS messaging from the iPad Messages App, your iPhone must be logged-in to iCloud with the same AppleID - and message forwarding to your iPad must be enabled on the iPhone.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208386

I hope this is helpful in clarifying your iPads Messaging features.

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