iMessage not syncing between Mac and iPhone

Hi,

iChat ending archive folders can be opened in TextEdit but are not that readable.

Basically the iMessages or in fact any message are a series of info that is a bit like HTML to describe the balloon and it's colour and the font and it's colour (if they are older iChat ones)

Then it includes the text.

The Archive holds them as dated items.

The app can string them together to produce the "history" of several sessions or days (or longer) of chat.

As you say trying to "add" a single chat into the "history" is difficult.

I am not sure it can be done.

This app is old but in early Yosemite when I last tested it is can open Archived .iChat files

http://spiny.com/logorrhea/

It will do your whole folder if you are not selective.

It strips away the Balloon and other presentation data leaving the Text.

This can then be put in a TextEdit documentation.

Slightly off track I would use pictures of the Chat along with a Text file just to show the Text file is not edited.

9:09 p.m. Friday; June 12, 2015

Thank you Ralph, I followed your instructions to the letter. Restarted my phone as well and now everything is golden. I would chalk this up to a bug in a recent iOS update. 😕

Hi,

Good to hear you are up and running.

10:23 pm Wednesday; July 8, 2015

I started to miss Steve ... look, what these idiots have done to your company ...

Thank you!! I was searching everywhere for your answer because I remember it helping me last time but couldn't figure out what it was that I did! You're awesome and I'm not book marking this page in case I forget again!

Thanks a lot Danlirong! I was all confused until I saw your post and now everything is fixed! 🙂

for the Points

8:51 pm Wednesday; December 16, 2015

Thanks for bringing up WIFI as possible issue. That's what it was for my iPad. Changed network connection to WIFI shared between all devices and voila all messages appeared, in sync with Mac and iPhone.

I was a diehard Apple supporter. That's over since I started dealing with IOS a few years ago. Nothing works the way it is supposed to. Nothing. I am online several times a week looking for workarounds.I remind myself that people are hungry and maybe it doesn't matter that I can't sync my devices, but I paid hundreds of dollars for features that rarely work. i am up for an upgrade. My.Next phone will not be an Iphone. It is unreliable.

I figured out why my messages weren't syncing between my iphone and new macbook.

iPhone: Settings/ Messages / Text message Forwarding -

My iPhone was forwarding to the name I had for my old macbook and not the name I had for my new macbook.

After changing the forwarding name on my iPhone, my texts came back in on my macbook.

I hope this is helpful to somebody.

Logging out of iCloud on mu iPhone and then back into iCloud fixed it for me. Everything resynced and iMessage was working on all machines again.

On your iPhone, do the following:

in SETTINGS

Click on MESSAGES

In new window, ensure the following are checked:

iMESSAGE

Click on TEXT MESSAGE FORWARDING

In new window, ensure your computer is checked.

Hi,

This Thread is in Mountain Lion (OS X 10.8.x or Messages 7.x.x)

The features you post about do not arrive until iOS 8 on the iPhone and Yosemite (OS X 10.10) on the Mac.

Syncing Text (SMS) Messages as you describe will not cure the issue if the device cannot do basic syncing n the first place.

8:46 pm Wednesday; March 2, 2016

Yes, I posted so that people who search the question in future will find a solution quickly when all these updates have long come and gone. I apologize that the message is misplaced.

Hi Ejacko -

- I appreciate your forward thinking! I am having trouble with imessage on my Imac (10.9.5) and Iphone (4s - 9.2.1).

once upon a time they were talking to each other but this seems to have stopped and I am not 'i' savvy enough to work out why.

As you advised in your earlier comment I have checked in settings on the phone that iMESSAGE is clicked on but I cant see anything saying TEXT MESSAGE FORWARDING.

can you advise - its driving me potty!

Cheers from Old-girl (UK)