Q: More sycing issues: iPhone iMessage and MacBook Pro iMessage
My iPhone and my laptop's iMessage use to be in sync, now they are not after syncing everything with iCloud. Any ideas?
MacBook, OS X El Capitan (10.11.2), refurb
Posted on Jan 21, 2016 8:02 AM
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
G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
Mac OS X (10.6.8),
Couple of iPhones and an iPad
Posted on Jan 22, 2016 12:39 PM

