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iMessage annoyance

tomwalsh77

tomwalsh77

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Original poster
Feb 12, 2012
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Blackpool, UK
I'm at the point where I've totally confused myself trying to figure this out so forgive me if there is an easy and obvious fix to this. I have an iPhone 6 and an iMac both setup on the same Apple ID. I get iMessages/SMS on both devices and also I can take calls on either. The problem is that when I text my girlfriend on her 3GS she sometimes receives the text from my email address associated with my Apple ID and sometimes from my phone number. This creates two separate entries in the messages app which are both from me. Have I set this up wrong somewhere and more importantly is it possible to fix this annoyance? :confused:
 
there is checkbox where you select which address messages should originate. you must have one selected for you phone number one one device and one selected as your email address on the other.
 
Mr Kram said:
there is checkbox where you select which address messages should originate. you must have one selected for you phone number one one device and one selected as your email address on the other.
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That's what I thought but I've checked on both devices and they're both set to my phone number? There is no issue on my sons iPhone though. Could it possibly be a setting on my girlfriends phone?
 
odd. don't think so unless for some reason when iMessage trumps SMS, it changes to the apple ID.
 
from the list of addresses where you can receive iMessage. unless you get messages from an iPod or something where you need it.
 
Mr Kram said:
from the list of addresses where you can receive iMessage. unless you get messages from an iPod or something where you need it.
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I'm sure I read somewhere that in order to get SMS relay working that I need to have an apple ID phone number and email address. Am I wrong?
 
you need it only to set it up for some reason, then you can delete or inactivate the email.
 
another thing to check is to see if your girlfriend has you listed twice in her contacts. she might have your appleID saved on 1 listing and your phone number saved on the other listing.
 
Check the "start new conversations from" settings on iMessage, both iMac and iPhone 6.

I think Apple needs to simply this! I found this EXTREMELY annoying, they did combine different addresses form a same person on Mac's Messages app but not on iOS.

Hope this help, if not, turn off iMessage on both device and turn it back on.
 
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