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Text Messages on I Pad

I have an old I Pad (6 years or so)....There are several of my contacts I cannot text or receive texts from my I Pad. Some are other smart phones...but at least one is an I Phone. I have no issues with most of my messages...I receive them on my I Pad and I Phone, but this is frustrating that I cannot receive or send to some people (one is my brother!). They send fine on the phone but will not work on the I Pad. Is there a simple solution that I am missing to solve this problem?


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Posted on Jan 27, 2021 10:22 AM

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Jan 27, 2021 10:24 AM in response to lindafrommiami

If you have an iPhone - and both iPad and iPhone are signed-in to iCloud with the same AppleID, to send SMS/MMS messages from your iPad you must explicitly enable Text Message Forwarding for your iPad on your iPhone...


On your iPhone:

Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to ON - and explicitly enable your iPad from the list of devices.


Also ensure that Messages in iCloud is enabled on both your iPhone and iPad:

Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to ON


Text Messages on I Pad

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