![]() 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. When you setup a Mac or another device that way, the messages are synced automatically to the computer, which sometimes is erroneously interpreted as a message forward, which it’s not.The Cause: Messages Contact in Red on iPad or Mac It’s a bit more hidden on newer iPhone and iOS software, but the functionality to forward a message is there as outlined here in this article.īy the way, if you have an iPhone along with an iPad or a Mac, you can use the SMS relay feature to send and receive text messages from that Mac via the iPhone, which allows the Mac (or iPad) to use traditional text messages along with iMessages from the native Messages app. Now that ‘forward’ button has been replaced by the forwarding arrow button, and the “Edit” button has been hidden behind a long-tap gesture followed by selecting “More” from the options as detailed above. The ability to forward messages from an iPhone has been around for a long time, but the approach today is rather hidden compared to how users forwarded text messages in earlier versions where an obvious “forward” button in iOS 6 existed behind an obvious “Edit” button that allowed selection of messages. Overall, this is similar to how you can forward a picture or photo message to another phone, except rather than sending an image, picture, or multimedia, you are only forwarding the text of a message. An iPad can also be the recipient of the message, assuming that they have iMessage configured. The demo picture actually shows an iPhone forwarding an iMessage to another contact as an SMS text message, but you can forward iMessages or SMS/texts to Messages on another iPhone, to Android users, or any other cell phone too. The picture below shows what the above message looks like when forwarded to another contact: This differs significantly from forwarding an email from iPhone or iPad with Mail app which will by default include the entire message text, sender, and original recipient in that forwarded email. For example, if you forward a message from someone named “Bob” and the message says ‘Hello’ then only the ‘Hello’ portion of the message is forwarded, and not the name of the contact “Bob” – this is important to note because if you forward a message without context, it will look as if you sent the message itself. It is quite literally only forwarding the content of the message itself. The original message senders name or contact information is NOT included in the message forward. Important note about forwarding iPhone messages and texts: when you forward a message from one contact to another via iPhone, ONLY the message body is included in the forward. You can repeat this process with as many messages, whether they’re iMessages or SMS text messages, that you want to forward and send to someone else. Tap the send button, it looks like an arrow pointing up, to send and forward the message to the recipient.You’ll be presented with a “New Message” screen, so tap into the “To” field and select the contact or person you want to forward the message to (or manually enter a phone number of the recipient).Now tap the forward arrow button in the corner of the Messages app.Optionally, tap on other messages so that the blue checkmark appears next to them if you wish to forward multiple messages.Tap “More” at the popup menu that appears after holding down on the message. ![]()
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