How do I get get messages addressed to my phone # on my iPad

[Kate]

How do I get get messages addressed to my phone # on my iPad?

Kate

[cbelt3]

http://www.apple.com/ios/ios8/messages/

[Kate]

Cbelt,

it links to the generic apple site. I have googled but can't find an answer!

Kate

[onthedownlow]

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3529?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US

How can I use my iPhone telephone number with iMessage on my iPad, iPod touch, or Messages for Mac?

You can link your iPhone telephone number to your Apple ID for use on your iPad, iPod touch, or Messages for Mac by signing into iMessage with your Apple ID in Settings > Messages. Then sign in to the other device with the same Apple ID in these locations:

-iPad and iPod touch: sign in to iMessage in Settings > Messages.
-Messages for Mac: sign in to iMessage in Messages > Preferences > Accounts.

Linking your iPhone telephone number with iMessage is not available for the iPad (1st generation) and iPod touch (3rd generation).

[cbelt3]

Kate wrote:
Cbelt,

it links to the generic apple site. I have googled but can't find an answer!

Kate

Kate, sorry... as above. iMessage seems to be a bit spotty (stopped working for picture messages to my wife's iPad mini, for example)

iOS8 has significant upgrades to messaging, and purports to resolve a lot of the issues.

[Speedy]

AIM supposedly allows you to do this.

[rgG]

I just went through this.
Make sure both devices have the phone number as the "start new conversations from" checked as the one you want to start new conversations from. Do this on the iPad and the iPhone.

This is found under settings>messages>Send & receive>addresses>start new conversations from

[Kate]

I've done all this, still doesn't work . . .

Kate

[rgG]

Odd. Switching the "start new conversations from" setting fixed it for me.

Maybe turn iMessage off and on, on both machines, and see if that helps. Sometimes toggling it off and on fixes things. If that doesn't do it, I don't know what else to try.

[Kate]

I did turn it off and back on, no good.

Kate