iMessage sent from email address rather than phone number...

im not sure if this will work for everyone, but i signed out of my appleid, and then basically all it said under "messages" was receive using my phone number. at that point, i backed out of setting, tested it by texting my friend, and it worked. i then hit "use appleid for imessage", signed in again, and it still worked. took me a lot of tinkering but eventually this worked for me, though that option didnt present itself at first, and im not sure why

The reason why this is and I do not know if anyone said this already but the whole point if imessage is it works on all ios devices. So your ipod touch doenst have a number, it sends it via your apple id to other ios devices. So on your iphone when you send a message to another ios device, it sends it in blue because it is sending it via iMessage and therefore via your apple id. This is supposed to happen. It also sends it through wifi if your connected. When you send it to another phone thats not ios, then it is green because it is sending a regular sms, using the sms signals.

I have no idea why, but after numerous attemps over the past week to get my number to show and verify, I tried again last night and it worked! Basically all I did was turn imessage off and back on, my number immediately appeared and I could select this one as the default in "Recieve At". I did nothing different to all the previous times - for some reason it just worked! Same for my hubby, although his took a little longer to verify.... so try again!

This was on my iphone btw....

I signed out of apple iD, restarted my phone and after signing in got my "phone option". So signing out&in worked.

Signing out of your apple account works and does the trick!

OKAY THIS IS HOW IT WORKS..!!!

SIGN OUT FROM MESSAGE/APPLE ID / OK ONCE SIGNED OUT , TURN OFF PHONE / TURN ON PHONE / AND YOU GOT IT

Yes, mine worked using these steps as well. It was nice to see my phone number in the Receive At section, in addition to the e-mail.

i just signed out from apple id for imessage and now it can't take it from my email...hope this helps!!

signing out of my apple id worked for me! thanks for your help!

Delete the conversation in which your iMessage is being sent via your email address. That worked for me.

Thanks--this worked! I signed out, but then my message changed from email to my phone, but it wasn't showing up on my friend's phone as imessage. So I added an email to sign into imessage and it worked!

Try taping on "Receive At", then on your Apple ID on top and then Change Location to your country. Worked for me although I also signed out and in before that and don't know exactly what helped me.

nah, it's not supposed to work like that actually. when sending from your phone, it's supposed to use your telephone number not email. if you send from your ipad, it's supposeed to use your email. I know specifically my issue was with my moms phone, her phone would send imessages from her telephone number AND email creating separate email threads. doesn't sound like an issue but it's kinda annoying.

i went into her settings and signed out of her apple id and just left her phone number. it works exactly the way it's supposed to now, her iphone sends imessages from her telephone number and her ipad sends imessages from her email.

Signing out of apple ID works. Thanks Mates

anyone got a fix for this yet. signing out of apple id doesnt work for me. also under settings > phone "my number" is displayed as unknown and i cannot change it...