Want to receive SMS messages on your MacBook Pro?
We think of SMS as a mobile phone thing But you can also Set up iPhone to get SMS
messages on Mac
This makes it easy to type and send messages if you’re on your laptop.
It also can make it easier to copy and paste verification codes.
First, you need to be signed into iMessage using the same Apple ID on both your iPhone
and your Mac.
On your iPhone, go to Settings > Messages.
Tap Text Message Forwarding.
Note: If you don’t see Text Message Forwarding, make sure you’re signed into iMessage using
the same Apple ID on both your iPhone and your Mac.
Turn on your Mac in the list of devices.
If you’re not using two-factor authentication, a six-digit activation code appears on your
Mac; enter this code on your iPhone, then tap Allow.
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If you've got an iPhone and a MacBook Pro, then you can actually receive your SMS messages
both on your phone and on your MacBook Pro.
Look, SMS is great if you want to be using your thumb and if you want to be responding
to messages then that's fine on your phone.
But sometimes you want to do a little bit more typing and you want to respond quickly
and you're on your MacBook Pro.
So here is how you can send and receive SMS messages on your iPhone and your MacBook Pro.
Now, there's a link in the description to the Apple document which shows you exactly
how to do this.
Now the way this works is that you will still receive your SMS messages on your iPhone,
but you're going to share them automatically with your Mac.
And that also applies to the MMS messages, and so that's the media messages.
So, not just text.
Now a couple of conditions.
First is, well even before we go to the settings and set it up on the iPhone, you need to know
that you've got to be signed into iMessage.
So iMessage is the Apple app for messages.
You've got to be signed into iMessage using the same Apple ID both on your iPhone and
on your Mac.
And now, on the Mac itself, you may want to go into system preferences and just check
what is the name of your Mac.
And to do that, you go into Sharing, which is just here.
I click on Sharing-file sharing-and there is my MacBook name.
Now I can actually unlock
this and change the name
just in case I've got some other MacBook that may also be accessible from my mobile
phone.
So, lock that.
Now, next thing is going to happen on the iPhone itself.
So let's do
that.
So, on the iPhone you want to go into Settings and then down to Messages.
And so what we want to do is go into Text message forwarding and I should see my MacBook
Pro there.
Now if you're not seeing your MacBook Pro there then chances are you are not logged
in either on the iPhone or on the MacBook Pro into your Apple ID.
Okay, remember that's
what you need to do is sign into iMessage using the same Apple ID.
So, what you need to
do is sign into iMessage on your MacBook Pro and use your Apple ID there and then go into
the Settings app and down to Messages.
There we go: messages there.
And what you can see
here is Text message forwarding.
So we click on that and you can see that this has appeared
with my new MacBook name; the one with I changed to MacBook Pro 2021.
So I'm just going to click
on that and from then on, as long as I'm logged in to iMessages on the Apple on the iPhone,
and on the MacBook, then when I send a message or receive a message it will happen on the
MacBook as well.
And so you can send it from the MacBook, receive it on the iPhone or vice
versa, which is really, really good.
And now here I am in my SMS and I'm just about to
get a message.
This is going to turn up on my iPhone but it's also appearing on my MacBook.
"I just subscribed to your YouTube channel."
Woohoo!
A new subscriber!
Thank you!
So I wrote that
back on my MacBook but that also appears in my messages on my iPhone.
How cool is that!
So, how good is that!
Sending messages-SMS-and MMS from your iPhone and from your Mac check
the link in the description below.
If you use this then let me know in the comments.