iPad messages won’t connect with phone

My iPad won’t connect with my messages from my phone. I know what the problem is but I don’t know how to change it. The problem is that on my phone I am using my phone number for messages and on my iPad it’s using my Apple ID email. I have tried everything to change it so they both use my phone number but nothing is working. Please help me solve this problem.

iPad Pro, iPadOS 14

Posted on Jan 6, 2021 11:57 AM

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Posted on Jan 6, 2021 4:52 PM

If you have an iPhone - and both iPad and iPhone are signed-in to iCloud with the same AppleID, to send SMS/MMS messages from your iPad you must explicitly enable Text Message Forwarding for your iPad on your iPhone...


On your iPhone:

Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to ON - and explicitly enable your iPad from the list of devices.


Also ensure that Messages in iCloud is enabled on both your iPhone and iPad:

Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to ON


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Jan 6, 2021 4:52 PM in response to glory97

If you have an iPhone - and both iPad and iPhone are signed-in to iCloud with the same AppleID, to send SMS/MMS messages from your iPad you must explicitly enable Text Message Forwarding for your iPad on your iPhone...


On your iPhone:

Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to ON - and explicitly enable your iPad from the list of devices.


Also ensure that Messages in iCloud is enabled on both your iPhone and iPad:

Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to ON


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