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.

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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I had this problem and switched SMS on in my iPhone 6 Phone settings. Problem solved!!

I Have both SMS and MMS Messaging turned on, restarted watch and still no luck. ????

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.

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, maybe you could try the reset network setting on your iphone and the watch reset too😉

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.

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.

Mike Kelly was right, apple watch doesn't seem to like iMessage at the moment. Side off iMessage and it works fine. Probably Apple will smooth that one out later.

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 had the excact same problem and it was solved only by unpairing and then pairing again. Nice!! Thanks!🙂