Mountain Lion Messages and SMS to a Cell Phone
Can I use Messages to send an SMS text to a standard cell phone?
Mac Pro (early 2008) 2.8 GHz Quad-Core, Mac OS X (10.6.7), 14GB RAM
No. Sorry.
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No Messages is used for the Apple iMessage service and other online chat services such as Google, Yahoo, and AIM.
Hi,
This remains a yes and no situation.
The Yes Factors
If the person is in the United States and on a carrier that supports it the AIM service can send SMS messages to a phone number.
The phone Number gets added as the "Screen Name" with a leading +1 for the country code (it never got rolled out further) as in +1234567890
The Computer also has to be set as if it is in the United States (Actually this was a requirement for iChat versions though to at least iChat 5 to show the SMS items in the menus)
Messages just seems to send the SMS to the phone number.
The NO Factors
Anywhere else in the world.
Anyone who's phone is not on the listed Phone Services
10:46 PM Tuesday; September 11, 2012
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
Okay, that worked in iChat, but it does not seem to work in Messages. When I try it, it returns
Your message could not be sent. +1 (000) 000-0000 is not registered with iMessage.
So how do we make this work in Messages?
HI,
That's because you have not followed what I said.
The Yes Factors
If the person is in the United States and on a carrier that supports the AIM service can send SMS messages to a phone number.
Not the iMessages account.
Any AIM account.
The computer has to be set as if in the United States. (System Preferences > Language and Text > Region)
The cell/mobile Phone has to be in the United States (i.e using a United States carrier's number) and the Carrier needs to Support SMS forwarding from AIM.
The said mock +1234567890 in an AIM Buddy list in Messages
8:03 PM Monday; January 28, 2013
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
Yes, sorry, I meant to post that I'd fixed the issue by adding an AIM account to Messages.
Glad to hear of your success.
8:38 PM Friday; February 1, 2013
Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"
iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Mountain Lion 10.8.2)
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
Couple of iPhones and an iPad
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images." No, Seriously
Mountain Lion Messages and SMS to a Cell Phone