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My account has two associated iPhone telephone nos, personal and business. Right now my iPad has my business cell associated with iMessage and FaceTime (not sure how that came to be). How do I switch it to my personal cell (or both)? FYI iMessage and FaceTime are activated on activated and working on my persoanl iPhone.
iPad, Windows 7
go the the settings all and tap on "Messages". Under there you will see an item that says "Send & Receive" on the left and something like 2 addresses (number might be different) on the right. Tap that. Now you can add/remove email addresses (AppleIDs) that are associated with imessage and tap to deactivate the phone number i believe. Not sure how to add a different phone number other than the observation that mine is my iohone number and in my contacts as my ID card.
I made a new AppleID just for use with my wifes iPad since we use a shared ID for purchases. I put her new one in that location and now we can message bac and forth without seeing everything twice.
Jason
I can deactivate it, but I still do not get the option to actually delete it or add a number in its place.
Try this Apple tutorial, scroll down to "set up imessages" It addresses setups for both, iphone and iPad. Hopefully you can dig out what you need.
Sorry - it doesn't help.
iMessage is set up - it just has the wrong number associated with it (as mentioned I have two phone numbers associated with my Apple User ID). It appears that this setting is controlled via my Apple User account, but I cannot see how to change it.
I believe this has to do with needing to change the number from the phone, not the iPad.
How do I change the number from the phone?
Unfortunately, I do not have my phones with me today - that's why this became an issue - but I should think the iPhone number is the iPhone number.
A new theory - I had deferred updating my personal iPhne to IOS 6 (an iPhone 4). I wonder if that is the cause of the problem.
is your personal iphone set up with imessage? and is it setup with the same AppleID as on your ipad?
Jason
Yes (as noted in my original post)
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
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/
iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
How to Set Up & Use iMessage on iPhone, iPad, & iPod touch with iOS
http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/set-up-imessage-on-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-with-io s-5/
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
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
To send messages to 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
You can check the status of the FaceTime/iMessage servers at this link.
http://www.apple.com/support/systemstatus/
Cheers, Tom 😉
Thanks.
iOS: About Messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529
This seems to confirm my thesis that to associate an iPad or iPod Touch with a phone number, I need to be running IOS 6 on the iPhone. I will test this out when I get home.
Installing IOS 6 on my iPhone 4 solved the problem.
Can you mark this post a solved so others searching for answers will be able to know to look in this post?
Thanks
Jason
Hi Guys
I don't knoew if this will help but this is my story of setting up 6 brand new iphone this last week.
We upgraded all our Blackberries from T-Mobile and Ornage to new iPhone 5's with EE - all carriers (or ex carriers) in the UK
With the phone came new Nano Sims which we pu in and setup the iphones with great success.....until we started sending and recieving texst messages - SMS work ok but iMessages looked like they came from totally different numbers. Also the guys with the phone started getting Facetimes from a nice young lady. She turned out to be a girlfriend of one of the lads with a new iphone.
What happened is that when we got the new nano SIMS they came with a brand new number, it then takes 30 minutes for the old numbers to be ported back over - however we had setup the iphones in this waiting period and so the brand new throwaway numbers were embedded into imessage and Facetime.
So today I switched off facetime and imessage etc to stop confusion and Googled for a way to change the embeeded number and stumbled across this page. When trying one of the suggestions it meant tuning backon imessage and to my suprise it was now using the phones correct number - hurrah
So I think if you have to change the number in imessage or facetime just switch off imessage under Setting->Messages and turn it back on.
Hope this works for you all.
MarkyB
Hope this helps, it helped me
http://www.ilounge.com/index.php/articles/comments/changing-iphone-number-for-im essage/
Changing phone number for iMessage and Facetime.
