


- #Ios text message forwarding code not appearing activation code#
- #Ios text message forwarding code not appearing software#
- #Ios text message forwarding code not appearing mac#
Note, you may have to wait a few moments after adding an email address before the activation code will send. For an as yet unknown reason, for a small number of users on iOS devices, call forwarding doesn't activate correctly even though your device reports that call forwarding settings were changed successfully. The setting to add your email address to iMessage is under Settings -> Messages -> Send & Receive. Understandably most people aren't used to call forwarding codes so this can be a pretty confusing step. In our testing, SMS messages were still received after the email address was removed from iMessage. MacRumors was able to verify this scenario and found that an email address does indeed have to be active on your iPhone for the activation message to properly be sent. If the activation code to set up text message forwarding is not showing up on your Mac, ensure that an email address is activated for iMessage on your iPhone. Once you have text message forwarding setup you can disable your email address again in iMessage as it seems to only be necessary for the numeric access code setup step, not the actual text message forwarding itself. As soon as you enable your email address for iMessage (you only need to do this on your iPhone) the numeric access codes appear as expected.
#Ios text message forwarding code not appearing mac#
If you don't, the numeric access code will not appear on your iPad or Mac during the setup process. you need to have your email address turned on for iMessage on your iPhone in order to enable Text Message Forwarding. MacRumors reader Michael wrote in with this solution which requires an email address to be activated in iMessage: Several of our forum members had difficulty activating the feature, as the required activation code would never appear on their Macs or iPads. I set up my google voice number to forward to my AT&T number, but when I get texts from some people who are in my contact list, the text appears to come from phone numbers I don't recognize. One of the anticipated features was SMS Text Message Forwarding, which allows SMS messages received by your iPhone to be mirrored on your iPad or Mac running OS X Yosemite. Note that this fixed things right away, no need to reenable or resend codes or anything.Earlier today, Apple released iOS 8.1 which introduced number of new features to iOS and Yosemite. I specifically have both set to “Start New Conversations” with my phone number, and I think that’s what did it! I don’t remember what the settings were on my iPad before this “broke” a couple of days ago, but when I got into my iPad settings, I could see that my phone number was not set to “Start New Conversations” which made me think that was the problem, so I compared the settings to my iPhone and ensured that my iPad was matching the iPhone settings.

Today, I searched online for an answer again, and it led me to this post, for which I’m grateful, because it led me to investigate my settings once more, and I stumbled upon the problem and this is what fixed it for me! Rebooted iPhone and iPad throughout all this in many different combinations (while sometimes leaving things off before restarting, and reenabling them after reboot, etc.).Disabled and reenabled the iPad (and got no Forwarding code on the iPad).I went to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding However, I didn’t notice until later that my iPad could no longer send or receive my SMS messages (iMessage was fine).

What Text Message Forwarding does is it mirrors text messages sent to your iPhone in the Messages app on the Mac or iPad. One of the main features was iOS 10 Text Message Forwarding on your iPhone.
#Ios text message forwarding code not appearing software#
Hmm I wonder why? Planned Obsolescence perhaps?).Īnyway, when I saw that message, I restarted my iPhone, and it was functional. When iOS 10 was released, Apple had fixed some software issues and included some new features into the latest release of iOS 10. It started with my iPhone “acting” weird (smartphones be acting stupid!) telling me that No SIM was installed, which was bullcrap (in my experience, phones start “acting” this way at the 1.5 to 2 year mark. This just happened to me the other day, not initiated by anything I did.
