More sycing issues: iPhone iMessage and MacBook Pro iMessage

I found it!

In settings> messages> text message forwarding. Tap and add device. I just went through this. Deleted icloud accounts, reset messages multiple times and two step authentication. It was something very simple. "text message forwarding".

Always something simple...

Hi,

If you go to System Preferences > iCloud you will not find Messages there.

If you go here https://www.icloud.com/ then there are no iMessages there either.

Other then possibly using the Same Apple ID as your iCloud login there is no connection.

Like iTunes, The App Store, FaceTime and some others each have their own Servers that you log in to.

If the devices are not showing the same iMessages on all devices at near enough the same time you might have to reset them.

Check first the iPhone > Settings > Messages > Send and Receive.

I have twice had an issue where the iPhone number has become Unticked even though it is not User changeable.

This needs the Messages app on the iPhone reset by Signing out of the Apple ID if linked then stopping the app for a few minutes then setting it up again and waiting for the number to verify (then adding back the Apple ID).

The symptoms fro this is that the Mac is getting SMS but not iMessages.

If it is just the SMS that the Mac is not seeing remove the Setting for Text Forwarding and then reset it so that a new Code Number is seen on the Mac (and entered back on the iPhone)

8:39 pm Friday; January 22, 2016

I have a different variant of this same issue.

I have a MacBook, and iPhone, and an iPad. I want to use iMessages, without all of my outbound and inbound messages appearing on all 3 devices. I want to isolate each of the devices, so that iMessages only appear on the device that I'm actually using. Clearly, I have only one Apple ID, which is common to all of them.

Is there a way to unlink them?

Hi,

You can remove the Apple ID from the iPhone so it is only using the iPhone number.

You can remove the Number from the Mac so it is only using the Apple ID.

The iPad would need to be using a different Apple ID if you don't want all devices to display all the iMessages sent to either the Apple ID or iPhone Number.

If you want each device to work separately then you have to set them up that way.

It's not an issue or a variant of the Original Question. It just using the app differently.

8:03 pm Tuesday; February 23, 2016

I have similar issue after upgrading to Sierra on my iMac, texts (both blue and green) are not consistent, sometime it works and others don't. Facetime also have the same behavior. Any idea?

I have already tried to sign-out on all devices, reboot, wait an hour or so and then re-sign back in but no luck, still intermittently working for both iMessage and Facetime.

Appreciate any help/idea of what I can reset.

Hi,

As I have said before, restricting both the Mac Version and iPhone version to their Own IDs in Send and Receive on the iPhone and the iMessages pane in the Accounts of Messages may highlight which iMessages from outside are not getting to which device.

8:25 pm Thursday; December 8, 2016

Hi