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Contact in red Your message could not be sent The Cause: Messages Contact in Red on iPad or Mac The number you are trying to send a message to is not using iMessage and your Mac or iPad is attempting to send the message as SMS text message. This is because the person you are trying to send a message to either does not have an iPhone or does not have iMessage enabled. Don’t worry, Macs and iPads can now SMS text messages. This feature is called “Text Message Forwarding” and has been available since iOS 8.1 and OS X Yosemite.
You need to enable this feature in order to use it. Macs and iPads with a lower OS than iOS 8.1 and OS X Yosemite can only receive iMessages, as SMS text messages are limited to the iPhone only. The FIX: Enable “Text Message Forwarding” Most probably the “Text Forwarding” feature is not turned on to do this:. Make sure you are on at least iOS 8.1 on your iPhone and/or iPad (to check go to SettingGeneralAboutVersion). If you are using a Mac, make sure you are running OSX Yosemite (to check go to About This Mac).
On your iPhone go to SettingMessages. Make sure iMessage is turned on. Select Text Message Forwarding.
Turn on the device(s) you would like to use for Text Message Forwarding (Don’t see any device(s)? Make sure you are logged in to your iCloud account on your Mac or iPad). Your iPhone will ask you to: “Enter the code shown on your mac to allow iPhone text messages to also be send and received on “Device”, so on your Mac or iPad go open Messages and receive the 6-digit code: XXXXXX.
Enter the code on your iPhone and press Allow. On your Mac or iPad, quit Messages and start it back up again. The number or name that was red before should now be green. You are done! Send and receive SMS text messages from anyone right from your iPad or Mac. I rarely use I Message. I have never been able to get it to allow me send messages to any person except I phone users.
Too much trouble. I could only afford one Apple product at this time, and the IPad Pro was my choice. I have a Google Pixel.
Despite the claims made by Apple, Apple and Google products do not play well with each other. I keep the two worlds separated except if Apple has a Google App. If you do not see an app in the App Store for a Google App that you want to work on your IPad, trust me it will not work. This didn’t help me at all.
This morning I woke up and received an email that someone had used my Apple ID. I changed my password on all my devices. On my iPad Pro there were thousands of messages from and to a strange number in China with Chinese language.
I deleted those. Upped my security. But after that I can’t send iMessages to just my husband.
His name is in red. He has Apple products too. So it’s not a matter of the recipient not having iMessage. He has an iPad and an iPhone.
No matter what I do I can’t resolve it. I’ve deleted him in contacts. Re added him. I’ve restarted my iPad with a soft reset. I can send him iMessages on my phone so it doesn’t make sense to me.
I even air dropped his contact to my iPad from my phone. Still in red. And it’s not like I don’t know what I’m doing. I worked tech support for Apple for 4 years a while back. I thought maybe they blocked my husband but no.
He’s not blocked. I’ve tried everything. Problem: After updating and backing up my iPad, one contact name turned red when I tried to iMessage her (she’s not on iPhone, but have always used iPhone/iPad to message). At first, even though iMessage was ON on my iPhone, there was NO “Text Message Forwarding” button below. Curious, I had toggled my email off on both devices. Clicked iCloud sign in (was already signed in) and ADDED the email back automatically.
Then, like magic, Text Message Forwarding Button was there again, and my Ipad was toggled off. I’m not sure what happened–I was signed into iCloud on both devices–but for some reason, since iPad is not a phone, I guess you need to have that email added and checked (again, iCloud did this for me automatically once I clicked to “add email back” under my cell number).
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I hope this isn’t confusing. You simply need to have your cell number, your iCloud signed in, and an email toggled on for to work. Then “Text Message Forwarding” will show up like a champ on your iPhone. The contact immediately turned red as soon as I entered her name, and voila.
I blame my iPad backup (was done just 2 weeks ago) for causing something fishy. Thanks much for this page. It came up first in results when I googled the problem. I was having this problem. However, like others on here, the 6-digit code was not “sent” (I looked all over).