On my iPhone I am trying to turn on "text message forwarding" to allow my mac to send SMS texts from Message through my phone. That's a mouthful!
Anyway, when i turn it on in the phone settings it's waiting for me to enter a code that my mac displays. But I don't see anything.
The setup:
iPhone 6 with OS 8.1
macbook pro with 10.10
Any ideas?
Jon
You have to enable your email addresses under messages for both devices you're trying to use. I only had my phone number checked on my devices and I never saw a code. Checked the boxes for my email addresses to be used for iMessage and boom.
I'm not sure why this is the case, but I hope in the future you're not required to have your email addresses turned on for iMessage. I also tried turning them off after I activated SMS forwarding, and it proceeded to cause forwarding not to work.
Thanks for the quick reply. What if I want my texts to come "from" my phone number on both my MacBook and my phone? My friend with a similar set up has the option on his MacBook to send from his phone.
I will try your suggestion, of course. thanks!
It didn't work. It should be said that I was an early adapted to MobileMe. So I have an Apple ID, a me.com ID and an iCloud.com (which I don't use).
So I am wondering if it has something to do with that. Regardless, I did set both the phone and the macbook to show the same email address as the default "from" (it was not set to the same, fyi).
J
So I'll tell you how mine is set up and working.
Both devices are signed into the same AppleID and both show my iPhone phone number. On messages on my Mac, I can be reached for messages at my phone number and 2 email addresses. All 3 are checked. I start new conversations from my phone number, which answers the question you had about sending messages from your phone number. All 3 receiving sources are checked (1 phone number 2 email addresses). After I did this on both devices, the code popped up in the messages app after a few seconds when I tried to enable SMS forwarding on my iPhone.
Thanks. I think my problem is that I can NOT seem to get my phone number to show as an option on my computer's Messages. I think I need to go to the genius bar 😟
Okay, I just got done at the Genius bar. It was a glitch that just need a little "turn off, turn back on". Here was the fix:
On the phone:
Settings > Messages >
Turn off iMessage (it's the first on my list). Then turn it back on.
Then turn on Text Message Forwarding when you are in front of your laptop so you can type the code that appears on the screen.
I've done all you say and still no code shows up 😟
I've done all you say and still no code
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UPDATE-GOT IT TO WORK:
I had to restart both macbook air and iphone6, then turn iMessage off and back on and make sure both were using same sign-in, then code appeared.
Thanks Strgzr, that solved my problem!
Perfect. Thank you.
lol I did this imessage off then back on and my "text forwarding" option is GONE...how? help...
Hi,
Had the same problem. You should open messages on you MacBook> preferences> accounts and check if your mobile nr is checked on. With me all my mail accounts were checked but not my mobile nr. when I checked it the verification nr appeared in no time...
Text message forwarding -- no code appears on mac
