I use my iPad for most of my messaging. I have a group thread with 3 people who have droids. All was fine until yesterday when any of those people replied I don’t get the reply box pop up to reply to them on my iPad, only on my iPhone does it work. I have rebooted both devices twice to no avail. Help!
iPad mini (7th generation)
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
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
To be absolutely clear, in addition to enabling Text Message Forwarding in settings, you must explicitly enable your new iPad mini from the device list.
Were you receiving and able to send Text Messages from the new iPad mini prior to performing the iPadOS 18.2 update?
Okay. With benefit of your clarification, I now have a much better understanding of the situation...
On both your iPad and iPhone, disable iCloud Messages - and then disable Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone:
Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to OFF
Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to OFF
Next, perform a forced-restart of your iPad and iPhone:
Force restart iPad - Apple Support
Force restart iPhone - Apple Support
After restarting both devices, re-enable Text Forwarding on the iPhone:
Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to ON - and again explicitly enable your iPad from the list of devices.
Finally, re-enable iCloud Messages on both the iPad and iPhone:
Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to ON
Text Message forwarding was already set to ON. I shut down again and still not working. My new iPad is an iPad Mini A17Pro if that makes any difference. Again, it was working fine until yesterday and I have done the most recent iOS 18.2 update.
Yes, I did the update last week and was able to send and receive messages in that thread until yesterday. I can still receive their messages but I can’t reply from my iPad, only from my iPhone.
SMS messages not syncing on my iPad.
