how to merge phone number with imessage on 10.8.2

Dude, you lost me. Sorry, but I am a newbie and did not understand all that you said! I do not mind having the phone number greyed on my iPhone as long as I am able to recieve iMessages on it! Please let me know how to do that as currently, I have my Apple ID, @me.com and @icloud.com addresses setup!

i dont know what i am doing wrong!!! i have recently bought a new imac and have a iphone 5... i am trying to get my imessage on the computer to work with my phone but for some reason it wants to put my husbands number rather than mine.... i cant get it to add a number in the add a email area it keeps saying trying to send but nothings comes through my email??? we do share an itunes account but my number is linked to the login name??? HELP!!!

exactly my experience. I waited for over an hour and never received the confirmation message. Then I turned iMessage off and on again, and then my phone number appeared on the phone as an option to receive message. I ticked the option and almost instaneously it was added on my iMac as well. I confirmed accepted on the mac and then again almost instantly received a notification on the phone that the iMac had been added.

Wife and I each have iPhone 5's. We have an iMac. I bought an iPad mini this weekend and could not figure how to get iMessage on the mini to show my phone number as an option. My choices were my email, wife's ph number or add a new email. I was on the phone with Apple for an hour and they could not figure this out. I turned everything off and back on to no avail. I factory reset the mini to no avail. I stumbled across this post from TechAddict and FINALLY I could add my phone number! The key is to Add your phone number on Messages on your Mac as an email [1 xxx-xxx-xxxx]. It is imperative to turn off the email on the iPad as a sending/receiving source or the verification from Apple to your iPad will not work. Then I turned off Messages and FaceTime on the iPad and deleted my account from iCloud settings on iPad. I then powered off iPad just for the heck of it. When I turned it back on and signed in to iCloud, this made it work. When I turned Messages and FaceTime back on, my phone number was finally an option. Here is a summary of the steps:

1. Add your missing phone number as a new E-Mail on your Mac under preferences once Messages is open.

2. Enter the phone number on Messages>Preferences as this format 1 xxx-xxx-xxxx

3. On iPad go to Settings>Messages>Send/Receive>Delete email

4. On iPad go to Settings>Messages>Off

5. On iPad go to Settings>FaceTime>Off

6. On iPad go to Settings>iCloud>Delete Account

7. Power off iPad.

8. Power on iPad.

9. On iPad go to Settings>iCloud>Sign in

10.On iPad go to Setting>Messages>On

11.On iPad go to Settings>Messages>Send/Receive and choose the phone number that FINALLY is available and either delete or keep email address-I chose to delete the email address and use the ph # only.

12.On iPad go to Settings>FaceTime>On

I hope this saves someone the 5 hours I wasted!

So Apple releases some ****** iOS6 with horrible maps, then forces me to use it if I want iMessage to work properly?

After hours of downgrading to get my iPhone back to iOS5 updating is the last thing I want to do.

3 words, **** you apple.

Follow these steps (make sure to delete the email under send/receive on the iDevice so the confirmation comes through)

1. Add your missing phone number as a new E-Mail on your Mac under preferences once Messages is open.

2. Enter the phone number on Messages>Preferences as this format 1 xxx-xxx-xxxx

3. On iPad go to Settings>Messages>Send/Receive>Delete email

4. On iPad go to Settings>Messages>Off

5. On iPad go to Settings>FaceTime>Off

6. On iPad go to Settings>iCloud>Delete Account

7. Power off iPad.

8. Power on iPad.

9. On iPad go to Settings>iCloud>Sign in

10.On iPad go to Setting>Messages>On

11.On iPad go to Settings>Messages>Send/Receive and choose the phone number that FINALLY is available and either delete or keep email address-I chose to delete the email address and use the ph # only.

12.On iPad go to Settings>FaceTime>On

I hope this saves someone the 5 hours I wasted!

Tech Addict,

What Darren worked for me. You need to do it in steps. It will take about 2-5 minute.

Make sure you are on WiFi and have your mac on.

1. Open iChat

2. Go to preferences.

3. Sign out of the imessage account.

4. Go to your iphone, Sign Out of both iMessage and Facetime. Anything within the Message and Facetime section on the iPhone. TURN IT ALL OFF.

5. Restart the iphone.

6. Turn on FaceTime & then turn on iMessage in your iphone only.

7. Once the iPhone activates FaceTime & iMessage. You should receive a popup on your Mac.

8. The pop up will list the e-mails and not the phone number. No worries..

9. Go into iChat preferences and log into the imessage account.

Once logged into iChat, you should received 2 or 3 pop-ups that say the phone number was added to FaceTime and imessage..

These are the steps i took and it worked. Good Luck...

Hi,

I would like to know if I can add my phone number to my messages app without an iPhone. I have the 2011 21'' iMac and an iPad 4, and my phone is currently the samsung galaxy s3. Its not an iPhone but it gets the job done. I am on T-Mobile so if I were to get an iPhone it will be $700.

If you have already answered this question, I apologies for not looking moar carfully.

This worked for me as well. I had previously synched my MacBook Pro, iPad2 and iPhone 4s iMessages up to my phone # (so people would get the iMessages from the same "account", not 3 different accounts). I also tried to send an email to my iPhone through the settings feature on iMessage on my MacBook, and it didn't work. But disabling iMessage on my iPhone and re-enabling it worked. Thanks.

So, I tried this.....twice. I have signed out all my iPad, iPhone 5 and the messages app on my MBP, starting from my phone, signed back in.

Still nothing. I had my messages app on my MBP and my iPhone 5 working fine, but then I bought a iPad mini and have been trying to figure out a way to get regular sms into the messaging app.... well, that is another topic, but for now. I just want to get my messages app and my iPad using my phone number again for iMessage.

When I sign into my apple ID on the phone, the number just doesn't show up on the MBP messages app. When I try to add the cell number as an email account from the messages app.... It never sends the verification message. Argh.

The phone is in airplane mode now. I will give it 10 minutes and try to sign back in.

Do I need to "break" the connection with the iPad, too? Right now the iPad and the MBP are on the same page, I just can't get the phone number back on.

Alright. That worked! I don't know, but it seems like the secret was maintaing connection on the MBP and the iPad, but disconnecting the iPhone. The last time I did it I disconnected EVERYTHING from the Apple ID. This time I only disconnected the phone, but left the others signed in.

Well, it worked! Thank you!

Now, its I just want to figure out a way that I can get NON iMessage users' messages coming into my phone, iPad and into the messages app at the same time - like my email does - regardless of whether its a gmail, me, address.

Thanks

I figured it out. I was having the same problem.

Go to your iPhone -> Settings -> Messages -> Scroll down to "Send and Receive". Enter the AppleID you want associated with this phone. The next time you sign in to messages on your Mac it will prompt you to accept adding the number. You should be good to go!

It was as simple as that. After turning iMessage off and then back on, my problem was quickly solved; and when I went into the preferences, I immediatelty say my phone # which I couldn't get to show up previously even if i paid for it...

There are two phone numbers and two iPads in my apple id. Each of us used to our one iPad for each phone number to send iMessages and now our phone numbers are not in the iPads. I have signed out several times and it's not working... Our phones are fine but not our iPads.

Please help!!!