iMessage texts not showing up on iPhone, but appearing in Messages on laptop

I managed to fix mine by turning off iMessage via the iphone system preferences and then turning imessaging back on.

On your iPhone open system preferences. Select messaging. Switch iMessaging to off. When you do this you should see the phone number vanish from your iMessage on all other device. Once you confirm this turn your imessaging on the phone back on and then reanble the number (which will once again show up) on your other devices.

Problem solved.

Avery, you ROCK!

Old thread but current problem and extremely frustrating and annoying! I have consistently been finding important messages on my MacBook Pro a day later when I had my iPhone with me the entire time! I have spent hours trying to figure this thing out. YOUR method is so simple....

When I turned off Messages in my iPhone my number did NOT disappear from the preferences panel in my Mac's Messages app or anywhere else. But I just waited a couple minutes before turning Messages back on in my phone and, voila, problem fixed!

Thanks Avery!

I have this same problem but with my Ipad, imessage isnt working on my phone at all anymore no matter what i do! when someone texts me using their imessage it goes to my Ipad i get nothing on my phone.

Same problem for me

*DUP POST* SORRY

Old thread, but this just happened to me. It Started out of the blue- and was quite irritating. Would send a imessage on my iphone- and not see that someone replied until I looked at my computer.

Here is what fixed it for me:

Go to Settings -> Messages -> Send & Recieve. Under "Start New Conversations From" - make sure your phone number is selected, not your email adress. This immediately fixed the delivery issue for me.

Hope this helps!

Avery, that was awesome man. Thanks for the simple explanation. Did the trick for me.

I just tried this and it did *not* work. I still have a message showing up on my laptop but not on my phone, although the rest of the message thread with the same person showed up on both. I totally restarted phone a minute or two after disabling the iMessage, but still...no dice.

It didn't work for me, either. I need this resolved!

What worked for me was to go to the Messages page under Settings on my iPhone and under Send & Receive I added my iCloud password and login. Then on my mac I was able to select "Start All Conversations from iPhone"

Messages on my iPhone were not syncing / appearing in my Messages App for OS X El Capitan.

Had to go into my iPhone Settings > Messages > Send & Receive.

Made sure that I was logged into my iCloud account.

Instantly started working.

I had same problem. when i checked the settings for Msg, i looked at blocked numbers! When I deleted my own phone number, the problem was solved. It took a few minutes for Messages to catch up, but it brought all my missed messages to my phone. Yay!

I am having this problem. It seems to only happen with SMS messages vs iMessages. However, even some of those come through. Here is what I know:

- I have an iPhone 6s with iMessage installed on two computers and one iPad

- I get most all messages on my iPhone however, there are a few people whose messages I don't get

- I don't have any blocked numbers

- I get ALL of my messages on my each of my other drives AND I get them on my Apple Watch (weird)

- I can reply to people from my phone and they get my reply but their reply to me only goes to my Apple Watch (and my other drives)

HELP! I'm missing a lot of important messages.