Text message forwarding - no code on iPad or Mac

The same happened to me, but it eventually started to work after a while.

Go to the Messages setting on the iPad and Send & Receive. Select the iPhone's number as being one of the addresses you can be reached at. Then select the same number in "Start new conversations from". That should do it.

Actually, simply turning on and off iMessages on the various devices did not work for me.

I believe the problem is rooted in having only your telephone number connected to your iMessages (and FaceTime too) on your various iOS devices and computer. This is a useful setup if you want to avoid having iMessages and FaceTime splinter off between your phone number and Apple ID but unfortunately does not allow this new feature to work correctly.

Accordingly, on your iPhone make sure that your telephone number AND AppleID are checked off available addresses to Send & Receive (same for FaceTime).

For other iOS devices (i.e. iPad) and OS X devices, you can leave iMessages and FaceTime set up with only the telephone number.

I did this and now I can send and receive regular texts on my iPhone, iPad and Mac Book Pro with the text message chain keeping in sync. I can also receive telephone calls on my Mac Book Pro (the call forwarding feature).

Hope this helps!

I don't have a phone number field on Mac, only email lists. Any ideas to solve this?

same problem 😟

This worked for me. It appears you need to have your @icloud.com and @icloud.me set on your iPhone as send and receive addresses. Just having your phone number only under the send and recieve option on your iPhone does not work. hooe this helps

Thanks Harshc4, worked perfectly for me too!

Log out of your AppleID on iMessage on your phone completely. Login again are register your mobile number and make sure you select it as "start new conversation from". Go back to Text Message Forwarding and select your Mac (or iPad) from the devices available. First pop up on your Mac (or iPad) will confirm your mobile number registered to use messaging on Mac (or...you get the picture) and the next pop up will be be the code to put into the phone.

That worked for me...Not sure why, but it did! Thanks!

I did the same as everyone else seems to be doing. I checked all boxes under user accounts and the code popped up instantly.

Thank You everyone for the quick resolution!

I get that in my Log too. And they spelled Incoming wrong.

The functionality doesn't allow you to begin a conversation to an SMS user, since it relies on FORWARDING a text. I believe you have to wait for someone to text you.

Fear not, you certainly can initiate SMS messages through Messages :-)

Well, not really.

After I read your post, I sent a message to someone on the SMS and started a new conversation and it worked without any issues.

solution that worked for me:

on laptop:

open imessage app.

messages>preferences>accounts>sign out.

then sign back in. your laptop should prompt you to confirm that your laptop is now using imessage. confirm that.

imo, the key is to reconfirm imessage usage on both your iphone and mac.

on iphone:

settings>messages>text message forwarding>on

settings>messages>send&receive>...under 'you can be reached...' make sure that the email associated with icloud is selected.

once i selected my icloud email address, i received several codes on my laptop. of course those were all inactive because I sent multiple requests, which i had cancelled.

if you did the same, just cancel all codes and start over.

wifi on laptop and phone are on. lte on.