Text messages arrive into MacBook Mail, instead of Android phone

logicrules wrote:

Thanks Idris, I'm lost about the iPad idea as I don't have one.

Oh, I'm sorry. I don't know why I thought iPad in stead of MacBook. But the theory is the same.

I have MacBook Pro and the messages that were sent as text from iPhone 14 land in my Mail app as emails.

There is no messaging app involved at my end using a phone number.

Ah, I also misunderstood that, too. I thought you meant the messages were coming to the Messages application on your Mac.

My phone number is not associated with any Mac OS product except the Apple ID on the MacBook — I cannot change that due to authentication.

Having a number associated with an Apple Account and having it associated with Messages if you're not using an iPhone are two different things.

I'll send her this to try and will let you know. However, if it is an iOS issue, I find it pathetic that you have to duplicate your contact entry and separate phone from email to function...

To call it an iOS problem is an oversimplification (not trying to be snarky). There are some fundamental issues with messaging between iPhones and Androids. And neither side wants to budge or at least not much.

There's one other thing I just thought of. If your carrier supports it and you're using an RCS capable-capable messaging app on your Android and your daughter enables RCS on her iPhone (assuming she has updated to iOS 18.3.1), that might help.

See here for more information:

What is the difference between iMessage, RCS, and SMS/MMS? - Apple Support

Try this. Have your daughter delete your contact from her phone. To be safe, she should also delete any conversation threads you're in but if there are messages that matter, try it without doing that. Then, have her create two new contacts for you with different names, e.g. Parent 1 and Parent 2. Put the mobile number in one and the email in the other.

On your iPad, go to Settings>Apps>Messages>Send & Receive and make sure that you're mobile number is NOT selected in the first section. I'd probably unselect in the second as well.

Then, as long as your daughter messages the mobile number version of the contact, it should go only to your Android phone.

logicrules wrote:

Thanks for the add-on, will read up on it.

I hope some of it is helpful!