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Suddenly Not able to SMS and MMS on My iPad Pro

Cell companies said they are not having issues they helped by trouble shooting. Still now working. Restarted my iPad turned off and back on everything in iMessage, still not working.. All connections are matching and I am able to MMS and SMS on both phone and Mac book . and I have Ipados 16.5.1 Someone Please help.

Posted on Jun 28, 2023 7:43 AM

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Posted on Jun 28, 2023 7:57 AM

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, verify:

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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Jun 28, 2023 7:57 AM in response to Medicstarr7771

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, verify:

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



Sep 15, 2023 10:38 AM in response to Medicstarr7771

I had this same issue. The iPad stopped working for text suddenly - no updates - just stopped working. After multiple tries I tried this and it fixed the issue:

On iPhone - Settings - Messages - Text Messaging Forwarding - I turned OFF the iPad.

Turned off iPhone.

Turned off iPad.

Turned both devices on.

On iPhone - Settings - Messages - Text Messaging Forwarding - I turned ON the iPad.


Messaging from the iPad worked after doing this.

Suddenly Not able to SMS and MMS on My iPad Pro

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