How to keep iMessage in sync with iPhone?

I had issues getting iPad and iPhone to actually sync up when sending test iMessages to my wife who also has iOS 5 on her iPhone.

Whether it was coincidence or not the trick that made it all work was going into both iPhones mine and hers and in the iMessage settings you'll see a field that says caller ID. I changed this option and selected the email address for both iPhones and only after that did I get joy.

Not sure what that option is and it does NOT make her iPhone pulse an email address to other people she texts...

Strange but that worked for me.

I tried this and unfortunely it didn't work. I wish Apple would post clear instructions to make this work as they advertised. I read that in other post that "it just worked all of a sudden." I hope to wake up tomorrow and see my iPad get iMessages when I send/receive iMessages on my iPhone. Sigh ...

Hi,

This will explain it. I had the same issue but went through the set up in both the ipad and iphone and now it's all syncing fine:

http://idarwindaily.wordpress.com/2011/10/14/sync-imessages-between-your-iphone- ipad-and-ipod-touch/

Cheers

I'm having the same problem. iMessage is working fine from my ipad, but the messages are not showing up on my iPad. This is a big concern for me because I don't always carry my iPad with me, so someone might text me thinking that its going to my phone, and it could end up on my iPad. In theory it should go to both, but for some reason it isn't...

This is how I got it to work. I found the solution that solved the problem for me on another website.

Make sure the Caller ID on all devices point to the same email address. At first this didn't work for me.

Then do the following:

[Go to]

"Settings.... General......reset....... Reset network settings.

Do this to both iPad and iPhone.... Allow each to reboot. Make sure you are connected to wifi or 3G on each device and you will see your messages on both devices... It's awesome!"

You will may have to configure your wireless.

Hope this helps.

The network reset has no effect, iphone to iphone does not appear on ipad

There is one other step vitally important to make this 'synch' feature work. I concur that the CALLER ID has to be set to your Apple ID email address in your iPhone (and I don't think there's any other choice in the iPad for this) - but ALSO -- you must have a 'self' identity in your CONTACTS bearing the same APPLE ID email address in first position of all email addresses you have listed for yourself.

So make sure you have a CONTACT for 'yourself' in the iCloud synched to both iPhone and iPad running iOS5 and that the 'first' email (often marked as HOME) is your APPLE ID email address.

THEN - if you have the caller ID settings set correctly as described earlier in this thread - the conversations between all iOS5 people out there you're talking with in iMessage will appear on both iPhone and iPad running iOS5. To make it 'iron clad' - you need start a NEW conversation in the messaging window FROM YOUR IPAD first!. Conversations started (pre your making all these settings right between devices) already in your iPhone don't just magically transfer to the iPad. They 'should' - I agree - but they don't. Initiate a NEW conversation to a fellow iOS5 person FROM your IPAD first. THAT message SHOULD immediately appear in your iPhone and then you're good thereafter. At least that's how it's worked for me. It's pretty 'convoluted' and Apple should give VERY specific instructions for this but they don't.

Remember, too, that iMessage will not work when texting to non-Apple devices and people not converted to iOS5 yet. In that regard BlackBerry Message is WAAAY more advanced a texting technology. Still prefer my Apple any day. But iMessage won't really ever be fully practical until it can work to ANY phone or tablet device on any carrier.

Hope that helps.

Super helpful. Everything is up and running! Thanks. Dave.

Thanks everyone. I hade to wait to ios5.1 to update because of the audio book issues. All the features that I can't firgure out how to make work are already covered by people like you. Thanks much for the help.

This fixed it for me. Thanks!

finally got iMessage to work thanks to this thread, ya i know i'm late to the party but i appreciate the help!