You can do the same deselection on all iOS devices and clear out any old conversations so you don't accidentally re-use the wrong address. Also people who receive my messages say that sometimes they come from my email (the below) instead of my phone. For example, I'll get a text to my computer, but it won't show up on my phone. The iOS preferences for Messages are not as complicated so I showed the more involved of the two. I set up text forwarding on my phone so that I can text from iMessage on the Mac, but I noticed that my phone and computer are not always in sync. If the reason you are wanting to change this is for their benefit, you can get them to go into their settings and remove the email addresses.īefore Mountain Lion and iOS 6 you had to use an email address to 'receive at' on non phone clients, but you can now de-select those email addresses and only use one (or several phone numbers) as only option for the 'receive at' and 'start new conversations from' settings. The person on the receiving end has the most control over this. If Apple messes up the delivery down the road when looking up the actual devices and indicating which thread / to address to actually send there's not much you can do. If you delete the email address - your Messages app will be forces to ask for delivery to the phone number. The only way to receive or check iMessage via other Apple devices. Since iMessage is a service developed by Apple, you cannot view iMessage on a Windows PC as you do with the Mac computer. In the case where you are sending an iMessage, the only item you have control over is the address book entry. And if you have enabled Messages in iCloud on iOS 11.4 or above (including iOS 13 and iOS 14), the iPhone messages will sync with Mac.
