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My new iPad Air receives new text messages but can't see older messages.

How do. Capture text message history and transfer it to my new iPad.


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iPad Air, iPadOS 15

Posted on Jun 12, 2022 4:38 PM

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Posted on Jul 2, 2022 3:07 PM

My new iPad Air still won't display older messages after following the directions on this post. What are some other solutions?


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Jun 12, 2022 5:05 PM in response to Lisa7700

If you have an iPhone - and both iPad and iPhone are signed-in to iCloud with the same AppleID - to send SMS/MMS messages from your iPad you must explicitly enable Text Message Forwarding for your iPad on your iPhone...


On your iPhone:

Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding - set to ON - and explicitly enable your iPad from the list of devices.


Also ensure that Messages in iCloud is enabled on both your iPhone and iPad:

Settings > [Your Name / AppleID] > Messages - set to ON


My new iPad Air receives new text messages but can't see older messages.

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