I have a no SIM iPhone 7 Plus works wonderfully at work and home, my iPhone 6s works fine but I like to use Wifi at work & home on a different device for large emails and other work, but unline my iPad and MacBook Air text message forwarding & REPLY works perfect even with SMS tests but not on the iPhone 7 with no SIM, Can anyone help fix this pease would be a big help 🙂
Thanks so much
iPhone 6s, iOS 10.2.1
Without a sim card, tied to a cellular service, I don't believe you can send or receive SMS messages on the phone. You should be able to send iMessage to other iDevices as that's going through Apple Servers, but SMS is a carrier feature.
I just figured since it works perfect on my Mac & iPad that have no carrier could get it to work somehow too, I just think since it is a phone that Apple just has that part off; just would be nice to reply to a SMS text on a different device then my iphone just like how I can on my MAC & iPad 😟 the iPhone 7 + just just the perfect size & why upgrade my 6s it works just fine but that my be the only next step unless someone figured it out.
Thx
Maybe someone else has an idea for you. And I could certainly be wrong.
At a minimum, go to Settings > Messages and check Send & Receive and see what you have selected for that. As far as I know SMS requires cellular services.
Yeah ( its off on the iphone 7 ) everything is on for forwarding and I'm geting SMS & iMessages on the 7+ but cannot rely if it's from a SMS msg. only iMessages the error is ( NO SIM ! ) makes sense ( just the entire point this feature is to reply back on any device assuming your active iPhone is close by/same wifi or bluetooth just would think should not even work that far not something apple would do half ways... more like they would just not have that option for another iPhone
Thanks for reply
On an active phone, without a sim card, you can get on the internet, but it's no longer functioning as a phone as it's not tied to a carrier, so carrier features, such as SMS won't work. You can again iMessage from that phone as that's using carrier services. If your iPad is Wifi only, it's still able to get SMS because your phone lets you route the SMS message to your iPad as long as it's connected to Wifi.
& my iPad ( Wifi only ) lets me route the SMS message reply though my iPhone 6s with carrier services; that's the part that's not working but it's definitely the fact that it's a phone even if I have Cellular off its still confused.
I'll update that if I/we/someone can find a workaround 🙂
Have a good day.
SMS text message forwarding to an iPhone without sim? from my iPhone with service
