Not Receiving Cell Phone Text Messages on my Mac (Messages)

Yes, if you set up with the following steps:

iMessage checklist

iPhone and Mac both logged in to same Apple ID. Try logging off and logging on if necessary.

iPhone Settings => Messages shows iMessage as "on" (sometimes toggling this off and then on fixes some things)

iPhone Settings => Messages shows Send & Receive showing both phone number and email (Apple ID)

iPhone Settings => Messages shows Text Message Forwarding and your Mac is listed and shown as "on" there.

iPhone Settings => Messages shows Send as SMS "on" and MMS Messaging and Group Messaging both "on"

On the Mac: Messages => Preferences shows same and correct Apple ID and "You can be reached for messages at" indicates both phone number and Apple ID (email), and "start new conversations from" indicates the phone number.

* Don't see the Text Message Forwarding setting on your iPhone? Go to Settings > Messages, turn off iMessage, turn it back on, tap Send & Receive, tap Use Your Apple ID for iMessage, then sign in with the same Apple ID used on your other devices.

How to forward SMS/MMS text messages from your iPhone to your iPad, iPod touch or Mac - Apple Support

SMS (text) messages only work on a cellular network. macOS can receive SMS if it goes through an iPhone connected to a cellular network.

You have to enable text message forwarding on your iPhone Settings > Messages.

silver_mica wrote:

@steve626 - that was massively helpful. Yes, all my devices are the same Apple ID. Running down the list that you provided looks like I just needed to turn on "Send as SMS" (on my iPhone). Okay, hopefully that'll do the trick. Thanks!

The system when set up properly usually works well, but sometimes something needs to be reset. For instance, the other day my wife's iMac (Monterey) stopped receiving texts from non-Apple devices, but was receiving texts from Apple devices. (All these texts were received properly on her iPhone). The solution was simply to log her out of the Apple ID within Messages Preferences on her Mac and then log her back in. Everything then resumed working as it should. Something like this can happen from time to time but a simple log out and then re-log in or something similar is often the simple "fix."