iphonemacbook promessages
I just recently bought a new macbook pro, and I've found that my iMessages directly send to my mac whilst I'm using it, which is very helpful. However when I shut down my mac, the replies to my messages are still sent to the mac, and not my iPhone. They do not end up showing on my iPhone at all.
Is there any way I'm able to fix this by having my iMessages send to both devices? Or even whenever I turn off my mac, have my messages retrieved back onto my iPhone?
No,
iMessage and FaceTime are linked to your Apple ID so you will need to add your Apple ID to the device, not your phone number.
If you send a message from the iPad it will use the Apple ID, so someone can reply to your email address, if they send a message to your phone number it will only go to your phone.
This is simple to accomplish if you have an iPhone to associate your phone number with your Apple ID account. I'm not aware of any way to hack, trick or cajole Apple to add a cell phone number to an Apple ID other than it going through the normal activation process on iPhone only.
As you can see, it is allowed to add more emails to an Apple ID, but the adding of phone numbers happens when you activate things from a live phone account and SMS messaging verifies that the phone number matches the iPhone.
Once that's done, Apple is happy to let your Mac or iPad or phone "iMessage" from that telephone number.
Best Answer
For consistency, it is advisable to have the same settings on all your devices. On iOS go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive and check:
Under the "You can be reached by iMessage at", how many addresses are there and which are activated (whit a check to the left).
Under "Start new conversations from" check to see if your phone number is selected, and if it is not, what email address is.
If you have more than one iOS device, check that they are set the same way.
Then go to OS X, and on the Messages app, go to Preferences > Accounts; under iMessage > Settings check that the information coincides with those of your iOS device(s).
If you are sending and receiving from different email addresses or an email on one device and a phone number on another, your recipients will actually have multiple separate conversations with you and when replying to one or another will be sending messages to the device associated with that address. If the device is offline, you won't receive the message. If all are configured the same way you eliminate this problem.
All the conversations you have with a contact look the same, independent of the address they used to send.
It's not easy to know to which address you're talking to; on iOS you have to tap details, then on the the (i) to the right of the name, and see which of the contact addresses or numbers is highlighted in blue.