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How can I iMessage from iPhone to iMac or iPad with same apple ID?

Hello!


I have an iPhone, iMac, and iPad with the same apple ID. How can I message between them with out having a duplicate message from "me" showing up on all my devices at once.


Is it possible to iMessage between two devices with the same apple ID?


Thank you for any help.

Posted on Dec 8, 2012 5:21 PM

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Dec 10, 2012 2:05 PM in response to Martin the King

HI,


The sync process send the "received" back to the originating devices but it shows on devices then as a "received"


You do get this crazy double Sent and Received repeat of the conversation.


I have not found away around this.



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10:04 PM Monday; December 10, 2012

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

Dec 10, 2012 4:03 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Here is the way I've done it so far to iMessage between devices under the same apple ID.

I have multiple email addresses under my iMessage account (under the same apple ID). I've set each device to sent/receive for one email only, and I've set a deferent send/receive email on each devices. Like that I found it doesn't create duplicate bubbles in iMessage since I'm messaging to a different email, but now I have 3 conversation with my self (as all the emails are under the same contact, me)


I was hoping for a simpler way.


Thanks anyways Ralph.

Dec 11, 2012 12:24 PM in response to Martin the King

HI,


I do it similar to that on my two iPhones.


I had an Apple ID (based on an old Dial up account.)

I linked this to iCloud and got an @me.com address as well.


Although iCloud, iTunes and logging in here as Apple Support Communities all end up at the same place whether I use the dial-up email address or the @me.com one, the iMessages server treats them like two separate IDs

One phone then uses thre @me.com name and the other uses the old Dial-up ID


Now that Apple have also given me an @icloud.com name I could use that on my iPad.



User uploaded file
8:24 PM Tuesday; December 11, 2012

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

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