How to send regular text messages from your iPad with SMS relay

[iMore.com]

SMS relay is part of Continuity and allows you to send and receive regular green bubble messages on both your iPad, and your Mac. As long as you're running iOS 8.1 on both your iPhone and iPad, you should be good to go to start using SMS relay. You'll just need to enable it first. Here's how!

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