{"id":7633,"date":"2020-10-02T07:08:50","date_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tcn.tidbits.com\/?p=8062"},"modified":"2020-10-02T07:17:40","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:17:40","slug":"remember-to-enable-text-message-forwarding-when-you-get-a-new-mac-or-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/remember-to-enable-text-message-forwarding-when-you-get-a-new-mac-or-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Remember to Enable Text Message Forwarding When You Get a New Mac or iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve long had text messages forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac and iPad, but after you get a new device, it might be a while before you realize that it\u2019s not receiving texts sent to your iPhone. It turns out that, when you get a new Apple device, you must manually enable it to receive forwarded texts from your iPhone\u2014the setting is off by default. On your iPhone, go to Settings &gt; Messages &gt; Text Message Forwarding, and flip the switches for the new devices.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8064\" src=\"https:\/\/macworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/remember-to-enable-text-message-forwarding-when-you-get-a-new-mac-or-ipad.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"280\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Featured image by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/@vlada-karpovich?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Vlada Karpovich<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pexels.com\/photo\/thoughtful-male-freelancer-using-smartphone-and-laptop-in-kitchen-4050438\/?utm_content=attributionCopyText&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=pexels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pexels<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You\u2019ve long had text messages forwarding from your iPhone to your Mac and iPad, but after you get a new device, it might be a while before you realize that it\u2019s not receiving texts sent to your iPhone. It turns out that, when you get a new Apple device, you must manually enable it to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mac-support-ct"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7651,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7633\/revisions\/7651"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.macworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}