How To Register For Imessage
Imessage lets you send and receive sms like text messages and mms style multimedia messages just like a phone through your icloud account.
How to register for imessage. Set up your phone number. Step 1 open the settings app on the iphone. This app looks like a set of grey gears and is found on your home screen step 2 scroll down and tap messages. You might need to wait a moment for imessage to activate. Before you can start using imessage you ll need to set it up.
You can however send a regular text message. Instead of just a phone number however it can use your email address and it only works with other ipads iphones and macs. For example you cannot send an imessage to an android phone. Tap send receive. However if you want to add a number that you can use for imessage on your devices you will have to go to settings.
You might need to wait a moment for it to activate. To use your number for imessage you will have to go to settings messages and turn on imessage. If you are using an iphone. This does not mean that you cannot send messages from your mac or ipad. Go to settings messages and make sure that imessage is on.
Open the taps settings messages on your iphone to tap the button next to imessage to turn imessage on. Click on the imessage tab. Here s how you do it. How to set up imessage on mac. Launch messages from your desktop dock or applications folder.
Click on messages in the menu bar. It s the mac compatibility that matters most here. In case that doesn t happen enter your apple id email address and password. If you see use your apple id for imessage tap it and sign in with the same apple id that you use on your mac ipad and ipod touch. On your iphone devices make sure your iphone is well connected to the internet.