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My iPhone XR doesn't have the "text message forwarding" option to allow me to get non-Apple texts on my iPad. How can I get texts to forward?
iPhone XR, iOS 15
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.
Just to be sure that you are looking in the correct location in settings, 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
If you cannot see the required settings, perform a forced-restart of your iPhone:
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.
Just to be sure that you are looking in the correct location in settings, 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
If you cannot see the required settings, perform a forced-restart of your iPhone:
my iPhone XR doesn't have the "text message forwarding" option to allow me to forward texts to my iPad.
