Mac Messages no longer receiving texts when offline (NOT iCloud related)

[edjusted]

First, I do *not* have "Messages in iCloud" turned on. I've never used this feature and don't plan on it.

Up to maybe a month ago or so, if I received text messages when my Mac was off, they would still be retrieved when my Mac is turned on.

As of a few weeks ago, this stopped happening, and texts received when my Mac is off will never show up on my Mac.

I have Text Message Forwarding set correctly on my iPhone. I even turned it off and on, etc. And I've logged off and back on Messages on the Mac.

Texts sent to me when my Mac is on *are* showing up, so Forwarding *is* working.

I don't believe I've changed any settings on my Mac in the past few weeks relating to this, and I haven't done any sort of system updates.

Does anyone know what's going on, and better yet, how to fix this?

 

[Sheepish-Lord]

Interesting you don’t have messages in iCloud on but in lieu of that all you can do is turn off/on text message forwarding for the device to see if that works or check the sleep settings on your Mac and make sure it’s still able to retrieve data when sleeping or disable sleep completely.

 

[edjusted]

Interesting you don’t have messages in iCloud on but in lieu of that all you can do is turn off/on text message forwarding for the device to see if that works or check the sleep settings on your Mac and make sure it’s still able to retrieve data when sleeping or disable sleep completely.

Thanks.

I've tried turning text message forwarding on and off to that Mac a few times.

I don't think it's related to sleep because my Mac gets turned off.
When I turn my Mac on, any text messages that were sent to me when the Mac was off *did* get retrieved by the Mac.

It's just in the past few weeks that the Mac stopped retrieving messages sent to me when it was off.

 

[MOM20xx]

Same issue here SMS forwarding to my mac works only when my mac is online. In Past the sms also were sent to the mac later when mac was online again. since a few weeks my mac only gets sms forwarded when the iphone is retrieving a sms and the mac is online at this time.

i'm also not using messages in icloud