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I don’t have an iPhone but I do have an iPad. I am trying to text my sister who has an android phone but I can’t get it to go through. I have iMessage turned on in the settings. What am I doing wrong?
iPad, iPadOS 13
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.
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 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.
I hope this is helpful in clarifying your iPads Messaging features.
iMessage only sends/receives between Apple devices. To send a text message to an android device you need either an iPad with a cellular plan (or if you had an iPhone you could send it from the iPad through the iPhone). See: Set up Messages on iPad - Apple Support
Conradson10 wrote:
I don’t have an iPhone but I do have an iPad. I am trying to text my sister who has an android phone but I can’t get it to go through. I have iMessage turned on in the settings. What am I doing wrong?
Because you can't text from an ipad to non apple device unless you have an iphone and use continuity, you can only use imessage to other apple devices.
SMS and MMS messages are cellular telephone voice network services. They are sent on unused bandwidth of the cellular telephone voice spectrum. Since an iPad is incapable of connecting to any cellular telephone voice network, no iPad can natively send nor receive SMS/MMS messages.
When paired with an iPhone, as already explained, the iPad can use the iPhones SMS/MMS connection to send and receive texts. But without an iPhone every iPad Is limited solely to internet messaging services, like iMessage, Skype, Google Hangouts, WhatsApp web, etc.
Google hangouts is free and offers cross platform apps.
My ipad has suddenly stopped sending text messages to android phones. It was working with no problem until I had to re sign in to my Apple ID on my phone. Have followed all the suggestions in settings and rebooted both my phone and my i pad but it still isn’t working.
My ipad has suddenly stopped sending text messages to android phones. It was working with no problem until I had to re sign in to my Apple ID on my phone. Have followed all the suggestions in settings and rebooted both my phone and my i pad but it still isn’t working.
I don’t have an iPhone but I do have an iPad. I am trying to text my sister who has an android phone but I can’t get it to go through. I have iMessage turned on in the settings. What am I doing wrong?
