The Messages app on my MacBook syncs with iMessage in my iCloud account (i.e., I can receive/respond to iMessages that come in, just as I can via the Messages app on my iPhone); but SMS texts do not appear in the Messages app on the laptop (only Messages on the phone). I am sure that I used to also see SMS messages on the laptop, but somehow no longer do. What is the setting to make it possible? Thx
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Texts in Messages app
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A quick Google search would have found the solution.
support.apple.com
Forward text messages from your iPhone to other devices - Apple Support
With the Text Message Forwarding feature of your iPhone, the SMS, MMS, or RCS messages that you send and receive on your iPhone can also appear on your Mac, iPad, and Apple Vision Pro, so you can continue the conversation from the device you want.
^While I appreciate this friendly suggestion, I have now found the actual source of the problem; thought I'd update this thread with the solution, in case it helps anyone else. (For clarity, I did already have Text Msg Forwarding turned on – apologies I didn't make that clear.)
It turned out that while Messages on my phone was set to send & receive from both my phone no. and email address, somehow the phone no. option had been unchecked in Messages settings on the Mac (no idea how this happened). So I was only receiving messages on the Mac app that were "sent" to my email address... this includes iMessages, not just texts, so I was only seeing half my iMessages on the Mac. Sometimes I was only seeing half the messages in an existing thread. It was driving me nuts!
Someone finally told me that they had two active iMessage threads with me – one from my phone no., one from my email – and that led me to discover the issue. I must have messaged him from within the Mac app at some point, starting a separate thread "from my email address" on his end... but it looked like a single thread to me on both devices (only his responses to the "phone no." thread weren't showing up on the Mac).
I feel like this misalignment shouldn't happen – or at least there should be a pop-up alert or something? Idk. Anyway, glad it's fixed... now I'm seeing everything on the Mac again.
It turned out that while Messages on my phone was set to send & receive from both my phone no. and email address, somehow the phone no. option had been unchecked in Messages settings on the Mac (no idea how this happened). So I was only receiving messages on the Mac app that were "sent" to my email address... this includes iMessages, not just texts, so I was only seeing half my iMessages on the Mac. Sometimes I was only seeing half the messages in an existing thread. It was driving me nuts!
Someone finally told me that they had two active iMessage threads with me – one from my phone no., one from my email – and that led me to discover the issue. I must have messaged him from within the Mac app at some point, starting a separate thread "from my email address" on his end... but it looked like a single thread to me on both devices (only his responses to the "phone no." thread weren't showing up on the Mac).
I feel like this misalignment shouldn't happen – or at least there should be a pop-up alert or something? Idk. Anyway, glad it's fixed... now I'm seeing everything on the Mac again.
