On an iPhone, Messages can also send and receive SMS text messages. But by default, iPads can’t send SMS text messages through Apple’s Messages app. Even if you have an iPad with a cellular data plan for mobile internet on the go, you still can’t send SMS text messages unless you use one of the workarounds listed below. To get SMS or MMS on your iPad through forwarding feature, both the devices (iPad and iPhone) must be running on iOS 8.1 or higher. Also, both of the devices should have an internet connection. Moreover, both of the iPad and iPhone should be powered on so you can configure text message forwarding.
Can't Get Sms Messages On Ipad
Make and receive phone calls on iPad. You can make and receive calls on your iPad by relaying calls through your iPhone (iOS 9 or later required). To make calls this way, you must set up FaceTime and sign in with the same Apple ID on both of your devices. He'd like to get his text messages on his HTC Evo and his iPad. Can that be done? Leo says that probably not. Apple's getting around text messages via iMessage. The chatroom says he can try renaming the cell as a regular cell phone, not an iPhone, that may do it.
By itself, an iPad is limited to internet messaging only. It can send and receive iMessages if you sign in to the messaging app in settings with your AppleID - iMessage is Apple's proprietary internet messaging service. Other internet messaging services available through the App Store are Skkype, Google Hangouts and a number of other third party internet messaging services.
SMS/MMS texting requires a cellular telephone as they use the cellular telephone network's voice channel. An iPad is incapable of connecting to any cellular telephone voice network, and thus cannot send nor receive SMS/MMS messages by itself.
If you own an iPhone, you can pair it with the iPad (Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch - Apple Support) so the iPad can share the iPhone's SMS/MMS texting capabilities. But without an iPhone, an iPad cannot send nor receive SMS/MMS texts.
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