How do I get Messages to sync with iMessage on my iPhone?

I'm in the same boat as you. My friend and i are texting through our phones, and i'm not seeing any of our conversation on my imac.

Also, can you send a text to ANY mobile phone phone number? I tried sending a text to my friends cel phone number on his blackberry, and imessage tells me that his number isn't registered.

That sounds dumb to me.

its supposed to be between OSX and iOS devices only, hence the iMessage name. But i am having the same problem as everybody. I send a message from my phone and it pops up on my sisters phone as the contact info she previously entered into her phone. When i send a message from my iMac, it sends it in a completely new conversation to her phone with my email address, or Apple ID, as the sender.

What has seemed to have had some effect so far, pull out your iPhone. Go to settings> messages> recieve at... then enter your apple id at the top if it isnt already there. tap caller id and switch it to your email instead of your phone #.

the problem with that is everyone sees your messages being sent from your email. But it did make the messages i sent from my mac appear on my phone....and the messages i recieved on my phone appear on my mac.

Its still kinda stupid how this app functions though

I'm having the same issue with iMessage. Seems like it should recognize your phone and email without a problem instead of starting a new thread on an iPhone if you send a message to someones number instead of their email address. Here's to hoping they fix the issue!

Very annoying that it will open a new convo on the iphone instead of just recognizing it as the same contact. They do it with contact cards to make unified info. Seems as though they should be able to do something similar to fix the iMessage issue. If we get enough hits on this maybe apple will see it and do something about it.

Well, the thing with me is, most people know my phone number and not my email address. If Apple wants the message service to work over all platforms, it should recognize all cel numbers and not just apple products.

Are you sending messages using your phone number? I've been using iMessage beta since day one and have been using my apple id to send/receive messages. I use the same ID on my MBP and my iPhone and it syncs.

On my phone i've got Messages set up like this.

iMessage -- on

Send Read Receipts -- on

Send as SMS -- on

Receive at 2 address --phone and email

MMS messaging -- on

show subject field -- off

Try sending an iMessage first to someone using your mac and select their phone number. It creates one message thread on their phone. Then select their email from you mac and send another. It creates a new thread.

The issue is that when it creates two threads, only one can be seen on both your mac and iPhone while the other only displays on your phone. It seems like that shouldn't happen.

Go into settings on your iOS device and select messages. From there, select which addresses your able to receieve messages at and the select Caller ID. You need to select the email address associated with your Apple ID.

This is the only way that I've found it works. My messages are all synced after this change to the settings; however it is not ideal. WHen a user messages me using my phone number, it now only goes to my iphone. If I initiate the conversation, it will sync accross devices due to my changing of the Caller ID.

Basically, until Apple unifies your phone number and Apple ID in iOS 6 this is going to be a pain!

I thought Mountain Lion was supposed to unify the phone number and Apple ID. Is it iOS 6 that does that? If so, that's a Bummer because the this was one of two things I was looking foward to and it looks like I have to wait for iOS 6 for both of them.

Thank you ... Mine was not syncing at all.. after reading the previous... I now have it working. (1) All devices must have the same icloud account (@me.com accnt) under settings> messages, plus your phone number (2) If someone else has an icloud account they system is sending from that so must have their icloud (@me.com) account built under their name in contacts (3) If someone has an iphone but no icloud account it should work because then it is sending off of the phone number.... Thanks again for all the info