SMS fails to send or show in list of messages

Just like with a Mac, make sure you can receive messages through both your phone number & an email address.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT202549

On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Add a check to your phone number and email address.

OK this is how I have got mine to work, I have a iPad that I am connected to with IMessage. I have both on latest software 8.3 and I have now forwarded all massages from my iPhone to my pad on setting/messages/text message forwarding. Make sure your iPad is ticked on your phone number, put the code in your phone which will be generated from your iPad. Thus worked for me. Hope it works for you.

Hi

i have had same problem and none of the above worked for me but what i did get to work was.

1 i unpaired apple watch (not sure if this is needed to be done)

2 go to iphone settings

3 messages

4 send and receive

5 make sure that your mobile number is ticked

i could not select my number to put a tick next to it so tried to add number under add another email it would not accept this so cancelled adding it and it then went back to send and receive and automatically put a tick next to number.

hope this helps

I had the same problem but got SMS messaging working by toggling iMessage to off on my iPhone, then using the Apple Watch to send and receive a couple of SMS messages that previously would not go through from the watch. It worked fine with iMessage turned off on the iPhone, and continued working after I toggled iMessage back on.

I was using 2-step verification which was causing the issue. I re-generated the key for iMessage and FaceTime and when the watch prompted for the iCloud password, I used the generated key rather than my iCloud password. I then received prompts on all my apple devices that my watch was now using iMessage. Since, then the watch has been working like a charm.

I have the same issue. Did all those tricks and still no luck. I can't send or receive messages with my apple watch. My messages are stuck. No matter what I try.

Hellob matt

Guess hv found the answers to ur question

Follow a few steps:

Make sure ur iwatch and iphone are paired.

On ur iphone, Go to settings -- messages-- disable iMessages

Go back to ur iwatch n try to send that txt again.

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1. turn off find my iPhone option from iCloud setting

2. reset network settings.

3. connect your iPhone to computer then restore iPhone. make sure the sim card is inside the sim tray.

4. reset your apple watch.

now it should work.

Same here. I spent over an hour on the phone to Apple yesterday and they came to the conclusion it was because I wasn't wearing the watch when the messages were received. So, slightly embarrassed, I just put it down to my error because when I wore the watch messages were coming through fine. Until late last night. Nothing again, going straight to the phone whether I have the watch on or not. Tried turning off iMessage on iPhone and even my iPad, tried restarting both iPhone and watch twice, and no luck

Bottom line, text messages on Apple Watch don't work!

I just spent an hour on the phone to apple and they could not fix the problem - did all the re-set/repair etc. They could not work it out - so I tried your suggestion and it is working!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Thanks so much

Hi everyone, I don't think my problem was solved the same way but thanks to Googling this thread, I fixed my issue! Basically, my watch messages were only going through to iPhones, not Android phones. I was thinking maybe it only works for iMessage but it was actually a bug. I went to iPhone settings and deselect ed the email addresses I could send iMessages from, so that only my phone number was selected as default. I just wanted to post this incase it helps others. Thanks for posting the initial suggestion on this thread, whoever did it!

This simple trick worked for me:

turn off iMessage and send SMS on all Apple devices in your name

send a message and receive a message from the Watch

turn SMS and I!eassage back on again.

FInally and working!

I'm experiencing the same issue that all of you folks. When iMessage is on the sms doesn't work, but if iMessage is off sms works properly. Notifications about a new sms is shown on my watch, but these are not stored on the message watch app (when iMessage is on). I'm thinking that the problem obviously is iMessage (my phone number is grayed out and not ticked). I'm tried all of solutions posted here without succes. Please help!!!