I see whenever I get texts, I receive them on my iPad too but is there any way I can just disable my number on my iPad? I want to just keep it enabled on my iPhone only. How do I do that? I just want to stick to my apple screen name instead of mynumber
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How Do I Disable my Number on my iPad?
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You can still receive iMessages (blue bubble texts) but you won't get SMS/MMS (green bubble texts) anymore.
Also go to Settings -> Messages on your iPad, you can choose which email addresses and phone numbers it will receive messages for.
Unfortunately that removes them from all of your devices, not just that iPad.
This also bothers me, I like my iPad to be free of text interruptions. I think there are only two solutions: either turn off Messages notifications, or sign out of iMessage in Settings > Messages > Send & Receive
What about turning on do not disturb mode on the iPad when you don't want to be interrupted?
EDIT: D'oh it didn't sink in that DND suggested above stood for do not disturb mode. Sorry.
Here is info about it from apple.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204321
Thanks, yes I'm aware of do not disturb. Problem is that it mutes all notifications... But you're both right that it's a good choice for some focus time.