How To Register Email With Imessage

You might need to wait a moment for imessage to activate.

How to register email with imessage. Add email to imessage settings. On your iphone devices make sure your iphone is well connected to the internet. You will probably be prompted to enter your apple id login credentials for verification. Then tap the link on that email to activate your icloud account. This app looks like a set of grey gears and is found on your home screen step 2 scroll down and tap messages.

Then tap return on your ios keyboard. Open the taps settings messages on your iphone to tap the button next to imessage to turn imessage on. Here s how you do it. Sent from my mobile device via tapatalk 3 2 1. It s located about a third of the way down the menu step 3 slide the white imessages slider to the on position.

You can t register someone else. Before you can start using imessage you ll need to set it up. If you are using an iphone. Imessage lets you send and receive sms like text messages and mms style multimedia messages just like a phone through your icloud account. The slider will turn green indicating that imessages are now enabled.

When you go to settings messages send receive and if you see use your apple id for imessage select it. Make sure that your mac and ios devices are running the latest version of the ios or macos software. Instead of just a phone number however it can use your email address and it only works with other ipads iphones and macs. You must use sms to contact those not registered with imessage non ios users. You can contact those already registered via imessage.

Because people often have multiple email addresses this is a great way to keep people from getting your most personal contact information. If you have two step authentication enabled you will be unable to add email addresses to imessage from the settings app on your ios device and will have to do it online from the apple id management web page instead. Ensure that you sign in with the same apple id on your other devices e g your mac. Your device will now be able to send and receive messages without using cellular data when connected to a wireless network. Now you need to modify the settings in your ipad so that your imessage will be sent using your email address instead of a phone number.