Text Message Forwarding confirm code won't show up in Mac

The way that I fixed it was by going to the messages app on my mac, then clicking on preferences and in the accounts tab where it lists your email, uncheck "Enable this account". Then just click it again and follow the normal process for setting it up.

Its a pretty easy fix, turn off iMessage on your ipad then send the request via iPhone And then open up messages on you tablet. It will give you a Login box, login into you apple account and it's done.

Have had the same problem. All the messages with the provided code numbers will appear as pop up screens on each device & not as texts in iMessage. Steps are:

1. Power off all devices and then restart

2. Using iPhone, turn OFF iMessage in Settings/Messages (this is an important step)

3. Go to Settings/General/Reset & then press Reset Network Settings. (this will unfortunately also clear the passwords for any WiFi connections) s

4. Reinput passwords for WiFi connections in Settings/WiFi

5. Turn iMessage ON in Settings/Messages

6. Press Text Message Forwarding just below this (may take a few seconds to appear after turning iMessages on)

7. Slide button on for one or all preferred devices - this will generate a opp up message on that device, enter the 6 digit code, and press ALLOW

8. Device should be connected, shown by a green slide bar. If not power down the relevant device (not the iPhone) and repeat steps.

Worked for me without a problem. Turning OFF iMessage before resetting Network Settings is the key step.

Good luck.

But does it work when phone is OFF? That's what I can't get it to do!

No, doesn't work for me. On iPad or OSX. No dice even after disabling, rebooting and reenabling everything. Microsoft-level BS. Thanks though!

If you have two-factor authentication set up for your Apple ID, you will not receive the code if you're using your trusted device. You just turn on Text Message Forwarding, and it will just work (without inputting the code)

Hope this helps 🙂

I resolved this issue by un-checking my phone number on my Mac Mini and then re-enabling it. The next time I selected that computer on my phone for message forwarding, the code appeared on my Mac Mini within moments. Not sure if it will work for every situation, but worth a try as a simpler solution.

My wife had the same problem just yesterday on her MBP, and I couldn't get her text message forwarding activated then. Now that this worked for me, I may have the solution for hers as well.

Hi maysamsh,

I'm sorry to hear you are having issues with the Continuity SMS function. If you are having issues setting up this feature, you may want to double check that you are following the process outlined in this article (apologies if you have already done so):

To use Continuity for SMS and MMS with your iPhone and your Mac, iPad or iPod touch

• Your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch need to use iOS 8.1, and your Mac needs to use OS X Yosemite.
• Sign in to iMessage on your iPhone, your other iOS devices, and your Mac using the same Apple ID.
• On your iPhone:
  1. Go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > You Can Be Reached By, and add a check to both your phone number and email address.
  2. Go to Messages > Text Message Forwarding, and enable the device(s) you would like to forward messages to.
• Your Mac, iPad, or iPod touch will display a code. Enter this code on your iPhone to verify the SMS feature.

Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity - Apple Support

If you continue to have setup issues, you may find the information and troubleshooting steps outlined in the following article helpful:

Get help using Continuity with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite - Apple Support

Regards,

- Brenden

Hey Brenden, I'm having the same issue but with my iPad. the iPad isn't displaying the code that the iPhone is requesting. This was working for me before until February 12. This is when all of my text messages stop arriving on my iPad.

I've tried signing out and back in from both iCloud and iMessage on both of my devices but nothing seems to work. I also tried adding my iMac with all the specifications and the code didn't show up either.

iPhone 6, iPad Mini both running iOS 8.1.3 , and iMac running Yosemite, meet all the requirements.

My thread: Text message forwarding issue

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Not sure if this will help, my problem was my phone number was greyed out. (I can only give you my link so that might not pertain to you, the site might have your answer though): http://www.idigitaltimes.com/ios-8-imessage-problems-fix-group-chat-not-working- messages-sending-texts-phone-number-grey…

^ Thanks GregCAust

Worked like a charm 🙂

One last bit of business is to make sure your iCloud account is active in iMessages (on your computer). For some reason mine was turned off. Every time I reset my PRAM it turns off "Find My iPhone" on my computer. Go figure.

This worked for me too! Even though I absolutely turned iMessage off in step 2, it was already on when I got to step 6 so I was afraid I was going to have to start over. But no, the steps were just different for me — rather automated. Maybe Apple's been working on this issue. In any case, THANK YOU GregCAust! This has been driving me nuts for months.