I am on my I pad and I am trying to text someone in my contacts that I text all the time. For some reason the name in the To part of the screen is red and will not let me send a text. Any help will be great
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, if used, 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.
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, if used, 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.
If it was working for you and is no longer, your iPhone may have lost the setting to act as an intermediary, as QuickPilot and LotusPilot described.
Another possibility is that your contact was using an iPhone and either turned off iMessage or switched to another brand of phone.
Hello,
This feature requires that you also have an iPhone.
I am trying to send a text to someone I send to all the time the persons name is now coming up red in the to screen and won't let me send
