I can't add my phone number in iMessage on my iPad

I had a similar problem: only my phone number would show up in iMessage on her iPad. Her phone number was not in the selection list. The problem turned out that on her iPhone, she had both our phone numbers checked for FaceTime. When I unchecked my iPhone number on FaceTime on her phone, then her phone started showing up as an option on iMessage on her iPad.

Have you tried adding your phone number in one of the email fields?

I suggest adding the phone number with your international dialing prefix. For example, in the U.S., you would add it as:

+1(xxx)yyy-zzzz

Are you in Settings?

1. Messages

2. Send and receive

3. You can be reached at

- your phone number goes in the first line

It has to be an iphone number that is registerd to your apple id. There's no place to add it because it should show up your ipad once the phone number is registerd to your apple id on your iphone, running iOS 6.0

Have you tried turning Messages off, signing out of your Apple ID and start all over again? Give that a try. After you turn messages off and sign out, restart the iPad, then go back to the Messages setting, turn it on again, sign and see what happens.

You might even want to try doing this on your iPhone. What I am suggestions is that you will hopefully be refreshing your account which will let you select the phone number on the iPad, because as Grumpy Gator said, it should appear as a choice once you setup Messages on the phone.

My daughter and I same an Apple ID and her iPhone number is a choice for me to use in the Messages app. The ID is my Apple ID, but the phone is hers.

Same problem. I have a iPad mini and I had my phone number on there before but all of a sudden it turned off. I'm really mad because then it started using my moms iMessage phone number instead of mine, what's going on!

is your mom signed in with your apple id on her iPhone, she will need her own apple id as to avoid this from happening.

I have the same problem on my iPad 1. The option use to be there but is no longer. I can only put in email addresses

Using FaceTime http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4319

Troubleshooting FaceTime http://support.apple.com/kb/TS3367

The Complete Guide to FaceTime + iMessage: Setup, Use, and Troubleshooting

http://tinyurl.com/a7odey8

Troubleshooting FaceTime and iMessage activation

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268

Using FaceTime and iMessage behind a firewall

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4245

iOS: About Messages

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529

Set up iMessage

http://www.apple.com/ca/ios/messages/

Troubleshooting Messages

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755

Troubleshooting iMessage Issues: Some Useful Tips You Should Try

http://www.igeeksblog.com/troubleshooting-imessage-issues/

Setting Up Multiple iOS Devices for iMessage and Facetime

http://macmost.com/setting-up-multiple-ios-devices-for-messages-and-facetime.htm l

FaceTime and iMessage not accepting Apple ID password

http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/facetime-and-imessage-not-acc epting-apple-id-password/

Unable to use FaceTime and iMessage with my apple ID

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4649373?tstart=90

How to Block Someone on FaceTime

http://www.ehow.com/how_10033185_block-someone-facetime.html

My Facetime Doesn't Ring

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4155326

For non-Apple devices, check out the TextFree app https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/text-free-textfree-sms-real/id399355755?mt=8

How to Send SMS from iPad

http://www.iskysoft.com/apple-ipad/send-sms-from-ipad.html

 Cheers, Tom 😉

Hey guys, I just came across this thread while helping two friends set it up on their laptops, and they ran into the same roadblock, being unable to add their phone number to iMessage on Mountain Lion. After some trial and error, here's what worked for me, from that point on:

1. On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages

2. Log out of your Apple ID at the top, and then log back in

3. Deselect all of your accounts that are not chat accounts (so if you also use Gchat, you can keep your Google account checked) (I don't know if this step is necessarily required, but it's what worked twice for me; feel free to experiment with this yourself)

4. Give iMessage a minute or two on your laptop, while open, to get the new information. You should get a couple pop-up messages telling you about the new settings. Just click OK for each, and you should be good to go!

Hope this helps, I don't know why it's more difficult for some people, but basically if you just reset the permissions on your iPhone, it should resolve this issue.

This worked for me. The sign-out for iMessage was a bit buried, but once I found it and reset everything it worked.

Thankyou!