The phone number should act as a portal for data across all devices via iCloud. You have to be running Mountain Lion and iOS 5. Mac Fix: Cannot Send Messages on a Mac But Can Receive Them If only your phone gets the echo, your caller ID is set incorrectly. You can test this by sending a message to your Apple ID. When you send messages from your phone they only go to your phone.
Going forward, When you send messages they will come from your Apple ID, and responses will sync to all your devices. More of a headache and a tease if you ask me.
I could not get all mine to sync either - and I only have the one mac id and it was driving me a little crazy. It is in the right direction, just needs the phone number to be the main portal of contact instead of email. Updates still need to be required for iMessage. I find it strange that i can send a test message to my apple ip off my phone and yes i do receive it on my macbook. For example, I met a hot stud at the gym, we went for a HOT coffee, then afterwards, he gave me his iPhone number, and I texted him hello, both of us thinking he would then have my iPhone number. I can sync in terms of sending and receiving messages but if I delete on iPhone, it remains on iPad unless and until I also delete it from iPad. Let me know if this works for you, or you need more assistance. It works the other way so when sent from ipad message appears on iphone - have I missed something? I did it and have a fix!!! Nothing will change other than the fact that iMessage will sync all messages from iPhone, under regular apple ID. Great news! Thanks Taylor! Both are running the same OS, have the same message settings. Right away I got an email from Apple confirming changes to my account, and right after that syncing started to work again sending an iMessage from my Mac resulted in that sent message appearing in the messages stream on my iPhone 4s. I deleted the home and evening fields and hit save. I actually had the correct number in my cell phone number field in the AppleID information, but I also had that cell number in the home and evening fields. A simple little thing that sometimes gets overlooked. What seemed to help was rebooting my phone. Just something to point out, I was having issues getting my iPhone 5 to sync messages with my MBP even though all my iCloud info on both devices were the same. Thanks a lot! That fixed my sync problem with Messages. Once I entered in my iCloud info in system preferences all of my contacts synced right up. Go to iCloud and enter in your iCloud information. What can be the issue besides that? Go into System Preferences on your Mac. I have still issues with it even though I went through all the mentioned steps.
#IMESSAGE FROM MAC PHONE NUMBER SETTINGS HOW TO#
#IMESSAGE FROM MAC PHONE NUMBER SETTINGS UPDATE#
After an update on the Mac, some users have complained that their messages no longer sync with the Messages app on the Mac.