Recently canceled cell service for iPhone 3GS (iOS 6) but have still been using it to iMessage. Today I got a message from someone I didn't know apparently AT&T reassigned my phone number to someone else and both my phone and hers were receiving the messages. How do I have others iMessage me to my email address instead of phone number?
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How does an iPhone send iMessages to iPad:
- Make sure iMessage is set "on" on both devices
- On your iPhone, go to Contacts and find your friend's name to check whether or not you have his email address. If not, you need to add his email address.
- On the iPad, go to settings>>messages>>recieve at>>add email. Put your friend's email address from step 2. It will say "verify".
- Your friend need to verify by checking his email. There'll be an email from Apple. Open the email and he'll be asked to click on the verify link. Click on it and he'll be directed to Apple's homepage. Just follow the instructions there.
- Once your friend has verified his email address, the word "verify" in step 3 disappears. Now you can iMessage him.
- On your iPhone, go to contacts and choose your friend's name. Click on "send message" and choose the email address that was just verified. You're now directed to the message screen.
- In the "To" field, you 'll see that the email adress is missing "@". Ignore it.
- Make sure that the send button is blue. Now just type your message and send.
Hope this works!
Go to settings on the iPhone. Go to the 'Messages' settings. And select Receive At.
See what it says there. It should be your phone number not Apple ID or email.
If you have a Apple email listed. You can remove it by.
Clicking the 'Apple ID youremail@me.com'
You will get a popup which lets sign out thus removing the mac email address.
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Go to the deregister page at:
You can also change the send as "caller ID" portion for sending new messages in the Settings App -> Messages -> Send & Receive -> Start new conversations from:
You might have some old conversations that end since you are now using your email for iMessage so send a new message to your friends if they won't know to try your email instead of your SMS going forward.