I have an iPhone and a iPad they both share the same phone number for iMessage and FaceTime. The iPad has its own phone number, can anyone tell me how to activate that number. That I can use it for iMessage and FaceTime.

To clarify, a WiFi+Cellular iPad is issued a phone number for cellular data when it is activated by you cannot use the number for anything including cell voice service, texting or Facetime.

You cant get a phone number on an Ipad. You can get an Imessage by clicking messages and signing in. You can only have the phone number on the Iphone. If you have a cellular Ipad you can have service.

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Hi. I have close to this same problem. So my mom got my sister a ipad, but all my moms texts go to my sisters ipad, so my mom got her a phone number for her iPad. As I looked through the comments on the question I can see that you can't have a phone number on iPad. Same thing with MY macbook because my mom sets up everything with her Apple ID. Can we all have a family sharing but get different texts and not all use the same phone number?? (my moms phone number). Thanks.

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It shouldn't matter wheather or not you have an android or iPhone. I can text and receive on my I pad messenger. The green bubble. You have to go into settings and set it up. I

If the iPad is connected to an iPhone, yes, you can do that. Here are the instructions:

Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support

You can't. Use your email address on the iPad.

I have my cell phone number on my iPad. I get messages on my iPhone and my iPad.

My iPad has a phone number and can receive calls and FaceTime

There is no way to text from an iPad phone number, you can do so using a 3rd party app such as TextFree and the pseudo phone number they issue you. There is no way to use the number assigned to the iPad.

It shouldn't matter wheather or not you have an android or iPhone. I can text and receive on my I pad messenger. The green bubble. You have to go into settings and set it up. I'm not sure how, but you should be able to google it. My son set mine up but the persons that you text need to be in your contacts . I can text anyone from my IPad and or talk on the phone with them and or video talk with them. Google it and see how to do it. Or call apple. They're good at helping.

Having your mom set up all the devices with her Apple ID is not family sharing. Everyone needs to have their own Apple ID.

See this article for more information:

Set up Family Sharing - Apple Support

Just wanted to post an update to this as it's still a top search result:

Now if you have a cellular iPad and an iPhone, phone calls placed from the FaceTime app are placed using your iPhone's phone number (but don't require the iPhone to be connected). This is similar to placing calls on the Mac over Wi-Fi without the iPhone on the same network. I'm not entirely sure if this is true with all carriers but with T-Mobile it works fine (carriers must provision the wireless account).

The iPad will still be provisioned by the carrier with its own phone number but it's for data purposes only—basically as an end user you don't have to know that it exists (and if it's confusing just disregard it).

So, can a friend with an iPhone call me on my iPad face time?

Yes, have them use the email address associated with your iCloud account.

my problem is, I bought a second ipad2 for my wife, when I set it up, I used my phone#, how do I change it to her phone#?