Turning off SMS/RCS forwarding to Macbook Air

I have an iPhone 12 and 2020 Macbook Air, I want to have my iMessages available on my Mac still & only turn off the SMS/RCS forwarding. I have tried signing out and signing back in to my Mac's iMessages. I do not have the option to toggle text message forwading on my iPhone settings either, so I don't know how this happened and how to now switch it off.

MacBook Air 13″

Posted on Oct 22, 2025 4:56 PM

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Oct 23, 2025 2:04 PM in response to blackcat707

blackcat707 wrote:

I have an iPhone 12 and 2020 Macbook Air, I want to have my iMessages available on my Mac still & only turn off the SMS/RCS forwarding. I have tried signing out and signing back in to my Mac's iMessages. I do not have the option to toggle text message forwading on my iPhone settings either, so I don't know how this happened and how to now switch it off.
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/96753c21-065b-4516-99c2-9aef3779647b

Your Macbook can send imessage so you don't need to enable text forwarding, so turn it off.

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Turning off SMS/RCS forwarding to Macbook Air

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