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

I've had success with this: start out in settings > messages > send & receive. In "send & receive" you should have the option to select your phone number or your email address. Select your phone number and imessages will be sent from your number rather than your email account, and fellow iphone users will now receive texts from your phone number.

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iMessage and FaceTime activation error occurs if you happen to skip your Apple ID verification which you must confirm it by the mail you get from Apple. If this is not the case resetting your network settings might help.

I added my number to my apple ID account through safari, rebooted my phone, and its still not giving me the option to choose my number. It will let me choose an email but my number stays grey.. Help?

im wondering if its possible to send messages from my mac to my contacts but using my mobile number instead of my apple ID? my friend has it set up as its her moblie number and not her email .. when i use messages on my mac it wont show up in an actual text on my phone either because its coming from my email not my number ?? how do i fix this

I had the same issue. Even contacted Apple which they could not solve. I just figured it out. Lets say you were sending a message to 'Amy'. You type the letter A and Andrea pops up yet is not in your address book. Select Andrea as if you were going to write to her. Next to her name is a drop down arrow. Select "remove from chat". Problem solved. 😉

When going onto your settings select messages,you will see your email address at the top of the page sign out of this it will not sign you out of iTunes or AppStore etc.. After you have done that select your phone number at send and receive once you have logged out this will enable you to send and receive your iMessages through your email..Good Luck

I changed my password for Apple ID and then my phone started sending email. I tried changing the 'you can be reached at' and it gave me a 'send new messages from' at my phone # after trying to delete the email address (which worked). So then I tried what MiaHolden98 suggested, signing out from apple id at your email address at the top of the page. It lives! 🙂 So thanks everyone for all the advice!

I have solved my problem by switching off iMessage service, then rebooting my phone, then switching on the iMessage service. That is all! All iMessages are now being received from my phone number instead of my Apple ID account! Hope this will help you guys!!!

Excellent. This fixed my problem. I traveled overseas and set my iMessage and Facetime to a new number. Then upon returning to U.S.A, I could not get my overseas number to "go away". I turned off iMessage and Facetime. Turned iMessage back on and Apple fixed it's self. Asked me if I wanted to use my old U.S.A. number. Hope this helps someone else.

I had the issue so i called apple and at first she said you have to restore your phone and blah blah.. after a brief discussion and hold she came back and said....all you have to do is follow the steps...

1.) Go into settings

2.) "Messages"

3.) "Send & Receive" (if it says your email address) and click on it

4.) Click on your "Apple ID:" and select "Sigh Out" from the pop out box

5.) "Facetime"

6.) Click on "Apple ID:" and select "Sigh Out" from the pop out box

NOW....

7.) Go back into "Messages" and sign back in and select only your phone number and deselect your email address.

8.) Go back into "Facetime" and sign back in and you CAN select both, your email and phone number if you wish.

9.) DONE.

It seems the only thing you need to do is to go to Settings > Messages > iMessage. Go into Send and Receive, uncheck all email addresses under "You can be reached by iMessage at". Your phone number will be there but it will be greyed out. Uncheck all "Start Conversation From" addresses. Go back out to Messages window. iMessage will be turned off, turn it back on and go back into Send and Receive. And you should only see your phone number checked off. This should change your iMessages to being sent from your phone instead of your email address. No need to sign out of anything or restore anything.

epfenn29,

I had the same exact problem. I tried every solution that the apple community gave. Nothing was working. My Imessage would only send as SMS (when I turned it off) or from my email (when I turned it on and logged into my apple acct).

What worked for me was just to turn on Imessage. Log in to my apple acct. When it's on and it gives you the option to "receive as..." just UNCHECK YOUR EMAIL even if it doesn't give you the option to choose your phone number. This worked for me after several times of resetting, managing my apple account online and many "unsuccessful activation"

I hope this helps! 🙂

The solution for me was to delete all emails you can be reached at. There may be one that you may not be able to delete. Turn Imessage on and off until it activates, your phone number and icloud address will be checked. I had to repeate about four times until it worked.

Good Luck!

Problem: When typing iMessages from your computer, they appear to recipients as from your email address.

Solution: Settings>Messages>Send&Receive> Log into your Apple ID, then select which addresses you want to receive messages at. You can then select your phone number only, by deselecting your email addresses.