iMessage

[sand_man]

How does one deal with a situation where you have multiple devices on one account. My household has 3 idevices, among 2 people. It won't let me add other email addresses.

Surely you would create a gmail/yahoo account and then register an Apple ID, unique to each device...??

When you update or sync apps that could be done using your primary Apple ID and the ID you use to make all your app store purchases.

 

[R13...]

I have asked the SO to send a message to my email using the iMessage from her iPad. Will see if that works.

 

[sand_man]

I just tested sending an iMessage from my phone to my iPad and it works if you send to your email address from the phone. Is that kind of what you were looking for?

Yeah, it's a little confusing. I'm no longer using iMessage as I have reverted back to iOS 4.3.3 on all my iDevices but I got the impression that iMessage is activated and registered more with one's Apple ID then one's mobile number.

 

[icyrus]

I have asked the SO to send a message to my email using the iMessage from her iPad. Will see if that works.

If I understand you correctly you have the iPhone and your SO has the iPad, both of which are using one Apple ID?

If thats the case the way I found it to work is that if you send an iMessage from the iPhone to your email address it will show up on the iPad, and if you send an iMessage to your mobile number from your iPad it will show up on your phone.

If someone else sends you an iMessage to your email address it will show up on both devices.

At least that is how it worked for me.

Yeah, it's a little confusing. I'm no longer using iMessage as I have reverted back to iOS 4.3.3 on all my iDevices but I got the impression that iMessage is activated and registered more with one's Apple ID then one's mobile number.

iMessage is by default setup to receive at two locations, your mobile number and your email address associated with your Apple ID. You can add more email addresses to receive iMessages on, but I have not tried that.

 

[R13...]

Yes icyrus, I have the iPhone and she has the iPad. Will send her a message and see.

 

[sand_man]

Yes icyrus, I have the iPhone and she has the iPad. Will send her a message and see.

You can also send iMessages to fixit_man at [email protected]

 

[abuusamah]

iMessage off

On my iphone 4 In settings I am unable to turn iMessage on. Whenever I try to it turns off.

However iMessage seems to be working fine ! Anyone else having this problem.

 

[mon_star]

Tip

I found that sometimes if the iMessage doesn't go through straightaway on the network, iOS5 will automatically send it as a text instead. So what I found useful was to turn this off under messages. Settings > messages > send as SMS - turn this to off. I've yet to have it not send as an iMessage after turning this on.

 

[Pooky]

I don't have anyone to send iMessages to!

 

[abuusamah]

I don't have anyone to send iMessages to!

Go through your contact list and add people - if it turns blue then you can iMessage them. It was nice to discover how many of the people I know are using iPhones with IOS 5.

 

[df1806]

iMessage is cool...

....BUT I heard that in some countries, mobile operators MIGHT be charging for messages on iMessage. I'm not sure how true this is and can't seem to find the link where I read this. Anyone got more info on this?

 

[MikeCTZA]

iMessage is cool...

....BUT I heard that in some countries, mobile operators MIGHT be charging for messages on iMessage. I'm not sure how true this is and can't seem to find the link where I read this. Anyone got more info on this?

I can't see how they could charge for the message as such - so I wouldn't believe that, the data (3G etc) used to send the message - yes definitely. Still cheaper than a SMS though