Q: How to text from iPad air2
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Dec 5, 2015 2:58 PMby Michael Black,If you have an iPhone you can use iOS continuity to connect the iPad to the iPhone and send SMS texts that way - Use Continuity to connect your iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Mac - Apple Support
your ipad can send iMessages to other Apple devices but it cannot natively send an SMS text.
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Dec 6, 2015 5:19 AMby Michael Black,pjb1234 wrote:
Is there anything this thing can do? Thank god for Surface Pro!
What? Your iPad? Yes, amazingly people actually buy iPads to do a great many things other than text messaging.
a Surface pro also cannot natively send SMS texts as it too has NO CELLULAR VOICE channel to use for that. SMS texts explicitly require a cellular phone voice connection. The surface pro, like an iPad or any laptop or computer, can use various apps and Internet relays to send SMS, but none of those devices can send SMS texts natively. They need a service, or an app with an Internet relay service.
