Text messages going to iPad but not iphone

It could be that the sender is using iMessage and sending it to you AppleID instead of your phone number. Make sure your phone is set to receive iMessages from your AppleID by going to

Settings>>Messages>>iMessage "Send & Receive"

If your email address (Apple ID) is not checked on your phone, then any messages sent to your Apple ID will not be displayed.

Messages on an iPad are forwarded through an iPhone.

1. On your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. On your iPad, open Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage. Make sure that you're signed in to iMessage with the same Apple ID on all your devices.
2. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding.

Since you said the same iMessages/SMS is not on your iPhone there are only two possibilities

• The messages are deleted on your iPhone. Enable  Guided Access before handing over an iPhone to kids
• The message is forwarded from another iPhone to Mac/iPad which uses the same Apple ID but a different Phone number.

I'm having the identical problem.

It seems to me that when I set up my iPad, because I didn't want this connected to my iPhone I decided to set up a separate iCloud account. But I also tied this to an external email account. On my iPhone, I have it set up with my phone number as well as an external email account that is different from the email account associated with my iPad. But, my iPhone's iCloud account did not have an iCloud account, i.e. abc@icloud.com, associated with it, only my phone number. So, I decided to create an iCloud account for my iPhone, ie abc2@icloud.com, in the hope that apple's message server would disassociate my abc@icloud.com from my phone number and instead associate abc2@icloud.com. But... while this seemed like it was working, I'm not so sure.

I think I got into this problem because my iPad originally had message sync through iCloud turned on. I tried turning it off because it was off on my iPhone. But that didn't work. But, now that I have 2 separate iCloud accounts and I have sync through iCloud on both my iPad and iPhone, these messages seem to be finally separated. Don't know what will happen if I turn off sync with iCloud on both of these again. Also, one other detail, my iPad is the wifi only model so it does not have a "phone number" associated with it. I wonder if that is really what's behind this odd behavior?

So, I think I have "cured" my iPad/iPhone mess... I now have separate iCloud accounts for my iPad and iPhone. And, I have sync to iCloud turned on for both. Now the messages seem to be separate. The annoying thing is the sender could not direct the message to my phone number because doing so caused Apple's server to send it to my iPad's iCloud account until I created the iCloud dedicated to my phone number and had sync turned on for both which finally forced to associate my phone number with that new iCloud account such that my iPad's iCloud account could no longer hijack the messages meant for my phone.

Try what I did. On your iPhone, switch off iMessage on your iPhone . Restart your iPhone and restart iMessage. All good now. Hopefully this works for you too

Your answer seems reasonable, but these suggestions are not applicable in my case. Nothing I can see has happened to explain messages not sync’ing to my iPad for the last 6 days. Accounts on both iPhone, and iPad are the same, ph # and emails are the same and I’ve changed nothing and deleted nothing. Messages are sync’ing fine to my Mac, so this remains baffling for me.

I think I have to assume the issue was a temporary one relating to the internet service because, again, there are no kids nor is there any other phone # connected to my account.

I am no longer seeing the original issue. However, there is a bit of a delay before activity done on my iPhone, MacBook, or iPad shows up on the other devices, although this is not a problem, nor is it unexpected.

If no one else was/is experiencing what I reported, I just assume it is a one-off glitch within my system.

Thanks for your thoughts, SravanKrA.

~Holly

It wasn’t a one-off glitch. I’m having the same issue and have been for several days now. I could not toggle off message forwarding until I turned off iCloud Message sync. When I did that, messages were only going to my iPad and not to my phone. There was no record of the messages on my phone. I turned it back on, and my iPad has again become the only device that gets message notifications. I changed my send and receive addresses to only my phone number, but still, the issue remains.

Hi. Did you manage to find a solution? I have text messages from one person only going to my iPad but I’m sending the messages from my iPhone but there response is not coming through my phone. I’m unable to switch iMessages off on my ipad. It does not give me this option and only gives my Apple iCloud account details. It is infuriating.

oops... have to revise my statement... I haven't actually cured the problem. Messages to my iPhone's phone number is still go to my iPad (which has no phone number) and so it does not go to my iPhone!!! But, "text messages" addressed to the email address associated with my iPhone do go to my iPhone and not my iPad. So, at this time, the only workaround seems to be that my phone number no longer works as the address for iMessages!!!

Ok… finally definitively solve the problem. For my situation, it was that my daughter would send me a text from her iPhone, then, that text would only go to my iPad even though she specifically designated the destination to be my phone number (an iPhone). It all started after I sent her a text from my iPad to her iPhone. And so, rather than assign that text to a new identity, she included that with the contact info with my phone number. Once she did that, the iPad was stuck as my main texting platform and it was frustrating to get the text to go to my cellphone. She (or we) tried a bunch of things to uncouple my iPad from my iPhone. But, in the end, what ultimately worked was that she essentially wiped her iPhone and then restored her stuff onto it though, she ended up not fully restoring it because, even though it was claiming to back up her phone, it didn’t. In other words, the backup was corrupted. So she restored from data on an older iPhone. In the end, she lost some contacts and photos. But maybe losing the new contacts is what unlinked the connection between my iPad and iPhone? Anyway, hope this helps.

Tysm now it’s going through my moms phone

Try kan7an his thing helped me

My latest text message from friend went to IPad but not IPhone. I do not want any texts going to IPad

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