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I am sending out my iPhone to be serviced today. I do not have cellular on my iPad, but I do have access to a constant WiFi connection. Will incoming and outgoing texts operate as normal? Will someone messaging me need to send it to my Apple ID instead of my cell number?
iPad, iPadOS 13
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As long as your iPhone is turned on and connected to Wi-Fi or a cellular
network, new SMS/MMS texts can be sent and received on the devices that
you added.
Since your phone will be off while its serviced, SMs and MMS messages will not be received on your iPad..
Users if Apple devices can continue to message you normally, and they should be received on your iPad as long as they are sent as an iMessage.
Users of Android devices or Apple devices sending SMS messages will need to find a different way to message you as those will not be received by your iPad, while your iPhone is not available.
Apple devices users will need to use iMessage, and Android users will need other messaging services if you have them such as Skype, or Facebook Messenger if you use them.
Also, if you use Whatsapp, it will not work on the iPad either.
See here:
As long as your iPhone is turned on and connected to Wi-Fi or a cellular
network, new SMS/MMS texts can be sent and received on the devices that
you added.
Since your phone will be off while its serviced, SMs and MMS messages will not be received on your iPad..
Users if Apple devices can continue to message you normally, and they should be received on your iPad as long as they are sent as an iMessage.
Users of Android devices or Apple devices sending SMS messages will need to find a different way to message you as those will not be received by your iPad, while your iPhone is not available.
Apple devices users will need to use iMessage, and Android users will need other messaging services if you have them such as Skype, or Facebook Messenger if you use them.
Also, if you use Whatsapp, it will not work on the iPad either.
if somebody send an imessage to you it will be recieved, imessages can only be send from apple devices
if somebody send you an sms from a non apple device it will not be an imessage and will not be recieved
but if you also have an iphone using the same appleID you can make the iphone pass on sms's and send sms's on behalf of the ipad
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This was very helpful, thank you! However, I’m not sure I understand the idea of using the iPhone’s pass on SMS’s. I read the article, but the instructions are outdated. Is it just that as long as my iPad is set up to receive messages from my cell phone as well as my Apple ID that I will still receive them?
WiFi Messages on iPad
