text message forwarding code note appearing on other device

After reading all these reply's and seeing different ways of getting this to work and knowing how much trouble i had with an iPhone 6 and MacBook Pro mid-2014 model one things that for sure......this is FAR from it just works....

you have to have your iCloud email enabled in iMessage on both your Mac and iPhone or iPad for sms forwarding to work. It cannot be an alternate email address like AOL. You can choose for all your messages to originate from your cell phone number so you get all your messages on your phone and mac and not just the Mac or iPad which can happen if you have the email address selected at the originating application

efi5phd wrote:

you have to have your iCloud email enabled in iMessage on both your Mac and iPhone or iPad for sms forwarding to work. It cannot be an alternate email address like AOL. You can choose for all your messages to originate from your cell phone number so you get all your messages on your phone and mac and not just the Mac or iPad which can happen if you have the email address selected at the originating application

Not true, I do NOT have an @icloud.com or @me.com email, my apple id is an @aol.com email and I was able to get mine working using the steps outlined in this thread.

I had the same problem, but it worked once I activated my iCloud email address as a send and receive option for iMessage.

Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > make sure both the number and your iCloud email are active.

Sweet deal. I have different hardware than yours though. I have a mid 2012 MacBook Pro and a 5s. I think this has something to do with it also. Having the iCloud email selected was the only way to get it to work. It works great now though.

Hi Justin,

Thx for ur tips. As all users have this common issue and I'm no exception. The fact is I did every step which u indicated in this forum, but still the code not showing on my Mac (MacBook Pro, Late 2011). I'm sending a text forwarding message from my iPhone 5 (8.1) and still have a problem.

The thing is, in message app on iPhone setting, imessage is waiting for activation and other hand work well with my mac over wifi only but not send and receive with mac. can this activation causes this problem??

I've had this problem and it resolved itself but I've no idea how/why. I played around with all manner of suggestions from on here and other threads. I am now up and running so I ceremoniously sent some SMS messages from my Mac to my wife's mobile. She received them and she even replied to them, which I picked up on my Mac. So far so good...

I then tried to reply to her reply from my Mac and it failed to send:

"Your message could not be sent

xxxxx xxxxxx is not registered with iMessage"

I know it's not registered with iMessage! I want to send an SMS!

It appears that I can begin an SMS conversation from Messages on my Mac and can receive replies. If I then attempt to reply to that reply it fails.

Disappointing.

[edit] - tried one more time and now it does let me reply to a reply. Flaky

I had the same exact problem as everyone in this group. Not until I added the iCloud account email to the list of ways to be reached through iMessage on both my iPhone and Macbook Pro did the code appear on my computer to be used for SMS forwarding.

That worked for me too! When I simply chose a different 'address' other than my phone number in order to 'start messages from' on my iPhone Other than my phone number, then the message popped up immediately on my Mac. After I entered the code then the slider switch stayed 'On' for my Mac And then I switched it back to 'start messages from (my phone number)' for my iPhone and everything stayed put.

I had the same problem.. And I found the solution. In my case it was very simple, my iPhone iMessages settings was logged on to my @gmail.com address, and the iCloud on my Mac was on the same iCloud account but it was logged on to the @me.com address, as well as the Messages app in my Mac. I just logged out from the @gmail.com address in my iMessage section in my iPhone and logged on again using the same @me.com address that was on my Mac iCloud and Messages app.

MacBook Pro Retina 15" (Late 2013) Yosemite 10.10 and iPhone 5S 8.1

I tried everything and I finally got it to work by going to settings->messages->send & receive-> then go down to the bottom where it says "START NEW CONVERSATIONS FROM" and select whatever email account your iCloud is associated with. Also make sure that the email address is checked above that where is says "YOU CAN BE REACHED BY IMESSAGE AT"

guys I have tried something and it is work with me I tried what written here but nothing works with me I just go to (setting --->General--->Rest--->Rest all Settings) then go to Messages and turn iMessage on then sign in with your apple id do the same to the other device it will work and will receive the code to forwarding the text messages. I hope it will work for you same as me

Many thanks to all, but I've found the ultimate solution that is a simple two steps... take Macbook, toss out 10th story window.

In all seriousness, I tried every step multiple times to no avail. I finally did the fix IT always recommended in 1995 - reboot. I restarted my Mac and after getting an error that Messages needed to close when the Mac was getting restarted, I received about 15 codes that had been piling up. I cancelled them, re-initiated the "Forward Text..." on my iPhone and the code appeared.

Thanks Justin!! This was very helpful two years later.

I wasn't able to forward text messages from the iPhone 7 to an iPad or MacBook; after going through the steps you indicated, it finally works!! It turned out to be that iMessages didn't activate correctly, so my phone number wasn't showing in the send/receive and start new conversation sections within iMessage settings. It activated ok after two tries, not sure why it had been failing - maybe an Apple issue or T-Mobile, who knows. I'm just happy it works again, thanks for your post!!

I had the same issue, then I checked my location services which was set to never for messages. I changed this and then it worked.