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I have an IPhone and an IPad both with data plans through Verizon. I can text message to android phones on my IPhone but not my IPad. Is there a way to syn the iPhone and iPad to be able to text android on both devices?
Hello Katiwatterson,
It sounds like you have questions about sending and receiving SMS messages on your iPad. We're happy to give you some info on this.
With the ContinuityText Message Forwarding feature SMS and MMS messages that appear on your iPhone can also appear on your iPad. You can then respond to those messages, even conversations between your iPhone and an Android device, right from your iPad. Here's details on how to get this set up: How to forward SMS/MMS text messages from your iPhone to your iPad, iPod touch or Mac.
Here's some additional information on other great Continuity features you can use on your devices: Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care.
Hello Katiwatterson,
It sounds like you have questions about sending and receiving SMS messages on your iPad. We're happy to give you some info on this.
With the ContinuityText Message Forwarding feature SMS and MMS messages that appear on your iPhone can also appear on your iPad. You can then respond to those messages, even conversations between your iPhone and an Android device, right from your iPad. Here's details on how to get this set up: How to forward SMS/MMS text messages from your iPhone to your iPad, iPod touch or Mac.
Here's some additional information on other great Continuity features you can use on your devices: Use Continuity to connect your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Apple Watch.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care.
Thank you so much! I spent an hour on the phone with the Verizon Customer Service folks only to be told this could not be done when I knew it could! I appreciate your help!!!
If you have an iPhone - and both iPad and iPhone are signed-in to iCloud with the same AppleID, to send SMS/MMS messages from your iPad you must explicitly enable Text Message Forwarding for your iPad on your iPhone...
On your iPhone:
Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to ON - and explicitly enable your iPad from the list of devices.
Also ensure that Messages in iCloud is enabled on both your iPhone and iPad:
Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to ON
Text messaging from iPad to an android phone
