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My Wife ipad gets text by her email address can that be change to a phone #

Huh? She gets texts on her IPad that do what?

No on an iPad you can only use iMessage through your email address, you can't use your mobile # for iMessage on your iPad, strictly on your iPhone.

328iGuy wrote in post #15367954
No on an iPad you can only use iMessage through your email address, you can't use your mobile # for iMessage on your iPad, strictly on your iPhone.

Thanks 328iGuy

I'm not sure that's true. If you have a phone number associated with your AppleID, in the Messages settings you will see a selector for "Send and Receive" which lets you select which email addresses or phone numbers you want a particular device to respond to. On my iPad I can select phone numbers as well as email addresses.

This might only work if you have an iPhone with that number on the AppleID. Not sure.

Yea I think iMessage servers handle and route the IMs no matter what you send it to so technically they are treated the same which is why the iPad can do iMessage. And if you have an iPhone, their servers have your phone number and thats how they are connected. As least thats my assumption.

yes you can use you phone # on your iPad or anything associated with iMessage. Now remember that these would only be iMessages and not regular texts.

There are apps that can assign you a new phone number to receive texts.

peeaanuut wrote in post #15375640
yes you can use you phone # on your iPad or anything associated with iMessage. Now remember that these would only be iMessages and not regular texts.

I forgot about that. When we were getting proliferation of texts across our devices, we were probably getting iMessages and not texts from a non-IOS device.

tkbslc wrote in post #15375739
There are apps that can assign you a new phone number to receive texts.

Yea, but most of those charge on a per text basis bought in blocks. Unless youre referring to Google Voice.

ben_r_ wrote in post #15386856
Yea, but most of those charge on a per text basis bought in blocks. Unless youre referring to Google Voice.

Not true. Most are just ad supported, but you can buy a year of ad free for less than $10. IF you want to make voip calls on that number, you do have to buy minutes, but SMS texts are free. They do require internet access to work, obviously.

Just one example, there are a few more: https://itunes.apple.c​om …sms-real/id399355755?mt=8

tkbslc wrote in post #15386878
Not true. Most are just ad supported, but you can buy a year of ad free for less than $10. IF you want to make voip calls on that number, you do have to buy minutes, but SMS texts are free. They do require internet access to work, obviously.

Just one example, there are a few more: https://itunes.apple.c​om …sms-real/id399355755?mt=8

Okay, so gotta ask, why do this when Google Voice is free with no ads and unlimited text messages and a phone number?

ben_r_ wrote in post #15390505
Okay, so gotta ask, why do this when Google Voice is free with no ads and unlimited text messages and a phone number?

alternatives? No google account? Just want SMS meggaging?

I don't know, I just know of a couple people using that one I linked and it works OK.