Q: My iPad Air 2 with cellular would allow me to text anyone, regardless of their operating system, but now it only will do iMessage. ... more
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Jun 7, 2015 6:26 AMby JimHdk,The iPad requires the iPhone to send SMS messages when texting android devices. The messages are actually sent through your iPhone. If your iPhone is not available then you can't send SMS messages.
See here: Send messages with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
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Jun 7, 2015 6:41 AMby JimHdk,ShawnaHill wrote:
I Could before. My phone could be dead and I could text anyone from my iPad...I could call anyone, not FaceTime. I could even call businesses From iPad. It just started not doing it a couple weeks ago, I've had iPad for almost a year.
No, you couldn't. The iPad cannot send SMS messages since it is not a phone. It certainly can't place phone calls.
Are you using some App like Skype?
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Jun 7, 2015 6:47 AMby Demo,You could make calls from the iPad only if you had an iPhone, the iPhone was turned on, on the same WiFi network as the iPad and you had it properly configured in the settings. This smae holds true for sending SMS messages.
Connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac using Continuity - Apple Support
With Continuity, you can make and receive cellular phone calls from your iPad, iPod touch, or Mac when your iPhone is on the same Wi-Fi network.
To make and receive phone calls, here's what you need:
- Sign in to the same iCloud account on all your devices, including your Mac.
- Your iPhone and your iPad or iPod touch need to use iOS 8 or later. Your Mac needs to use OS X Yosemite.
- All devices must be on the same Wi-Fi network.
- All devices must be signed in to FaceTime using the same iCloud account. This means any device that shares your Apple ID will get your phone calls. Look below for instructions on how to turn off iPhone cellular calls.
- Wi-Fi Calling needs to be off. Go to Settings > Phone. If you see Wi-Fi Calling, turn it off.
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Jun 7, 2015 7:05 AMby ShawnaHill,Uh, yeah I could. I could text and call whoever I wanted since the first day I had it, activated through verizon. It has its own number linked to it. no skype or anything was used, or even downloaded, the iPad did it. I was surprised and my finance and I would call all kinds of numbers because we couldn't believe it did it. I even called my dentist on it. I could text anyone at all in my contacts, regardless of their operating system, which I can screen shot all the bubbles being green. I'm quite aware of what I could do on it. Now, as of a couple weeks ago, it won't. Perhaps the new update took it away.. I don't know if it was fluke, but I certainly know what it did. Soooo, now I am trying to see if anyone knew how to get that feature back.
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Jun 7, 2015 7:21 AMby ShawnaHill,Well, don't feel cheated, because it's not doing it anymore and I guess it wasn't suppose too.... I can only assume it was a "fluke" and when I did the latest update it took it away. Shame, was hoping I could get some to say "yeah, just do this" and it would be fixed, but clearly that is not going to happen. :-/
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Jun 7, 2015 7:35 AMby Michael Black,The only way to make an iPad connect to a cellular voice channel and make native cell service phone calls is to hack it and then purchase software specifically for hacked iPads. I suspect you had a jail broken iPad and yes, any recent update would have undone the jailbreak.
No unaltered iPad running native iOS can make native cell service phone calls.
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Jun 7, 2015 4:29 PMby IdrisSeabright,avtin wrote:
I'm an electronics engineer. Believe me I know hoe "things" work. I can even do it on my wife's iPad 3. I call my son all the time. So enough said believe what you want Mister know it all.
Then you have it paired to an iPhone. Unless, of course, your son has an iOS device, in which case, iMessage and FaceTime will work without the iPad being paired to an iPhone. Or, you jailbroke it.
And that's "ma'am" to you.
