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I set up a new iPad this week & since then some people’s texts are going to both the iPad & my iPhone and one person’s texts only going to my iPad. I didn’t want any texts going to the iPad and need all texts to go to my iPhone. Any help gratefully received.
iPhone XS, iOS 16
It wasn’t a one-off glitch. I’m having the same issue and have been for several days now. I could not toggle off message forwarding until I turned off iCloud Message sync. When I did that, messages were only going to my iPad and not to my phone. There was no record of the messages on my phone. I turned it back on, and my iPad has again become the only device that gets message notifications. I changed my send and receive addresses to only my phone number, but still, the issue remains.
It wasn’t a one-off glitch. I’m having the same issue and have been for several days now. I could not toggle off message forwarding until I turned off iCloud Message sync. When I did that, messages were only going to my iPad and not to my phone. There was no record of the messages on my phone. I turned it back on, and my iPad has again become the only device that gets message notifications. I changed my send and receive addresses to only my phone number, but still, the issue remains.
Your answer seems reasonable, but these suggestions are not applicable in my case. Nothing I can see has happened to explain messages not sync’ing to my iPad for the last 6 days. Accounts on both iPhone, and iPad are the same, ph # and emails are the same and I’ve changed nothing and deleted nothing. Messages are sync’ing fine to my Mac, so this remains baffling for me.
Messages on an iPad are forwarded through an iPhone.
Since you said the same iMessages/SMS is not on your iPhone there are only two possibilities
All my messages go to my iPad which has a separate line from my iPhone. I don’t want messages going to my iPad. I want all messages going to my iPhone.
It could be that the sender is using iMessage and sending it to you AppleID instead of your phone number. Make sure your phone is set to receive iMessages from your AppleID by going to
Settings>>Messages>>iMessage "Send & Receive"
If your email address (Apple ID) is not checked on your phone, then any messages sent to your Apple ID will not be displayed.
Try kan7an his thing helped me
I think I have to assume the issue was a temporary one relating to the internet service because, again, there are no kids nor is there any other phone # connected to my account.
I am no longer seeing the original issue. However, there is a bit of a delay before activity done on my iPhone, MacBook, or iPad shows up on the other devices, although this is not a problem, nor is it unexpected.
If no one else was/is experiencing what I reported, I just assume it is a one-off glitch within my system.
Thanks for your thoughts, SravanKrA.
~Holly
Tysm now it’s going through my moms phone
Some Messages come to my iPad not my iPhone Bev
Try what I did. On your iPhone, switch off iMessage on your iPhone . Restart your iPhone and restart iMessage. All good now. Hopefully this works for you too
Text messages going to iPad but not iphone
