How To Register A Name On Imessage
Input your apple username and password or click on create apple id to create a new account.
How to register a name on imessage. Instead of just a phone number however it can use your email address and it only works with other ipads iphones and macs. Tap send receive. Set up your phone number. Go to settings messages and make sure that imessage is on. You enable imessage in the settings messages.
It is located in the menu bar at the top of the app. Make sure that your mac and ios devices are running the latest version of the ios or macos software. You might need to wait a moment for imessage to activate. Before you can start using imessage you ll need to set it up. It will also ask you to set up the phone numbers and email addresses you wish to be linked to your imessage account.
It will ask you to sign in with your appleid. You can name an imessage group. Here s how you do it. You might need to wait a moment for it to activate. The name will be updated and you will see a notification within the thread telling you that the group s name has been changed.
Without a device with ios5 you are not able to register an imessage caller id and can not participate in the imessage exchange. Imessage lets you send and receive sms like text messages and mms style multimedia messages just like a phone through your icloud account. To do so open the group thread and tap the little arrow under the number of people. When you go to settings messages send receive and if you see use your apple id for imessage select it. On your iphone devices make sure your iphone is well connected to the internet.
Tap it and enter a name for the group. Open the taps settings messages on your iphone to tap the button next to imessage to turn imessage on. When imessage others select their imessage call id be it iphone number or email accout depends how their imessage caller id are registered from your contact. That is how you do it. If you see use your apple id for imessage tap it and sign in with the same apple id that you use on your mac ipad and ipod touch.