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Nar2023 Author

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My phone number isn’t showing up in iMessage Send/Receive

iMesage on my iPad isn’t picking up my messages from my phone. Going into iMessage in Settings, my phone number isn’t available to be selected in “Send/Receive”

iPad Air 2, iOS 11

Posted on May 15, 2023 8:23 PM

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LotusPilot

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Posted on May 16, 2023 3:21 AM

Do you have an iPhone - or just an iPad? If exchanging messages with Android devices, you’ll need to use SMS/MMS messaging.

If you have an iPhone - and both iPad and iPhone are signed-in to iCloud with the same AppleID - to send SMS/MMS messages (green bubbles) 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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