sending emails to a phone

[keith krause]

I just got a new Ipad and i cant send Imessages to a phone number it only goes from my email account I tried looking how to change my apple ID and icloud email but nothing worked can someone help

 

[SwitchBeach]

I'm going to answer what you posted rather than what is in your thread title.

Are you signed in with the same Apple ID as your iPhone?
When you go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive, is your phone number selected?
Do you have "Text Forwarding" enabled for your iPad?

 

[Ledsteplin]

If you're on iPad, be sure you have an email address checked in settlngs > Messages > send and receive. You should be able to send an iMessage to someone using the email, rather than a phone number. An iPad can't use the phone number.

 

[TwitchyPuppy]

If you're on iPad, be sure you have an email address checked in settlngs > Messages > send and receive. You should be able to send an iMessage to someone using the email, rather than a phone number. An iPad can't use the phone number.

It can, actually.

 

[TwitchyPuppy]

Try these steps, it might help with your problem (if I understood correctly).

 

[Tartarus]

I just got a new Ipad and i cant send Imessages to a phone number it only goes from my email account I tried looking how to change my apple ID and icloud email but nothing worked can someone help

Like @SwitchBeach and @TwitchyPuppy already said, this is possible. See the following link on how to set it up.
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201349

 

[Tartarus]

If you're on iPad, be sure you have an email address checked in settlngs > Messages > send and receive. You should be able to send an iMessage to someone using the email, rather than a phone number. An iPad can't use the phone number.

It was the very first entry that came up when I googled for “use ipad send imessage phone number”

 

[Ledsteplin]

It was the very first entry that came up when I googled for “use ipad send imessage phone number”

Always heard it had to be email. I didn't know this. So you can have an iPhone and iPad and send iMessage on both with the same number? Cool.

 

[Tartarus]

Always heard it had to be email. I didn't know this. So you can have an iPhone and iPad and send iMessage on both with the same number? Cool.

Right on.
It works the same as with sending an iMessage from your Watch using your phone number.

 

[msm0511]

The above steps work as long as the OP has an iPhone, but if he/she uses Android there wouldn't be a way for it to come from a phone number. Email address is the only option as far as I know

 

[Tartarus]

The above steps work as long as the OP has an iPhone, but if he/she uses Android there wouldn't be a way for it to come from a phone number. Email address is the only option as far as I know

You have a point there. Since I don’t have any android devices, I didn’t think of this. Thanks for clarifying.

 

[Annie_M]

The above steps work as long as the OP has an iPhone, but if he/she uses Android there wouldn't be a way for it to come from a phone number. Email address is the only option as far as I know

This is true for a friend of mine. She’s deaf and doesn’t want a mobile phone of any kind. She does have an iPad and this is how we “text”.

 

[Ledsteplin]

The above steps work as long as the OP has an iPhone, but if he/she uses Android there wouldn't be a way for it to come from a phone number. Email address is the only option as far as I know

And the OP didn't say which phone they used.