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Old 04-15-2020, 01:24 PM   #9
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Originally Posted by OtinG View Post
When I set up my new mini 5, I restored the latest backup I had made for my Pro. My Pro was named Jack's iPad Pro 9.7. I keep the names simple and descriptive so it is easy to know which device it refers to. Immediately after finishing the set up and restore on my new mini 5, I changed its name to Jack's miniPad5. Therein lies the reason that SMS text messaging wouldn't work. I forgot that to set up SMS text messaging on an iPad without cellular radio (and phone service) requires an iPhone with phone service and it also requires that you go into the iPhone's settings and specifically tell the iPhone to share its phone service with the iPad. It took me a while to figure out that I had to go to my iPhone XR, and do this:

Settings-->Messages-->Text Message Forwarding--> and turn on the toggle switch for Jack's miniPad5.

Otherwise the iPhone will have no idea that there is a new iPad and you want to forward SMS text messages to it.
Tip: It's the same behavior for cellular iPads. Unlike Android, Apple doesn't allow direct texting to a cellular iPad's phone number.

You need to manually enable SMS forwarding for all new iPads linked to your account. Doesn't matter if you change the iPad name or not. SMS forwarding needs to be enabled for each device. Lol, I actually have a couple of iPads simply named "iPad" so there are two "iPad (iPad)" in my text message forwarding list.
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