How To Register Someone To Imessage

It will ask you to sign in with your appleid.

How to register someone to imessage. You enable imessage in the settings messages. If you want recipients to see your phone number and not your apple id select your phone number from the start new conversations from or start new calls from pop up menu. And imessage can only be sent to another iphone ipad ipod touch or mac. In the you can be reached by imessage at. For example you cannot send an imessage to an android phone.

Here s how you do it. Your default imessage caller id is your phone number if an iphone or apple store id email account or other email account you added in the setting message receive at setup. That is how you do it. Before you can start using imessage you ll need to set it up. Instead of just a phone number however it can use your email address and it only works with other ipads iphones and macs.

You also need an apple store id and password to log into the apple imessage server. Using the same apple id sign back in to messages and facetime on your other devices. To register an imessage caller id you must have an apple device that is running ios5 or above. Imessage lets you send and receive sms like text messages and mms style multimedia messages just like a phone through your icloud account. On an iphone you can also add or remove the phone s number to or from this list.

This will allow the email or number to send receive messages using the imessage service. It will also ask you to set up the phone numbers and email addresses you wish to be linked to your imessage account. Tap send receive then choose use your apple id for imessage and sign in with your apple id. Section you can add remove and select email addresses to receive imessages. You can however send a regular text message.

Go back to settings messages and make sure that imessage is turned on. This does not mean that you cannot send messages from your mac or ipad.