My iPad Air 2 with cellular would allow me to text anyone, regardless of their operating system, but now it only will do iMessage. How do I get back to texting anyone?

Avtin was clearly delusional or simply had no idea what he was talking about.

If you have an iPhone, you can pair it with an iPad using continuity - Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support That will allow the iPad to share calls and the iPhone's SMS/MMS texting capabilities.

Otherwise, an iPad is limited to iMessages and VOIP services only. No iPad can, nor ever has been able to connect to any cellular service providers voice channel or voice telephone service. Therefore no iPad can, nor has ever been able to natively make or receive voice cellular calls or SMS texts.

Hi Avtin, I'm new user of iPad Air 2

i just know that iPad can't make a call or SMS, I tried couple things I found in internet and still failed. It's gonna be great if you can share what you do to make your iPad can make a call and text message.. thanks.

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

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?

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:

1. Sign in to the same iCloud account on all your devices, including your Mac.
2. Your iPhone and your iPad or iPod touch need to use iOS 8 or later. Your Mac needs to use OS X Yosemite.
3. All devices must be on the same Wi-Fi network.
4. 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.
5. Wi-Fi Calling needs to be off. Go to Settings > Phone. If you see Wi-Fi Calling, turn it off.

if you could then you had another ipad air 2 then anybody else some sort of experimental one which had abilities the rest of us were cheated from having.

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.

TThat's strange because I can do it and always could.

avtin wrote:

TThat's strange because I can do it and always could.

Either you don't understand how things work or you jailbroke it.

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.

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.