Imessage confusion with appleid email address and phone numbers

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weird hunter

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I have a 3GS and iPad 2. My partner has iphone4 and iPad 2. All at IOS5

If I send a message from my iPhone to his iPhone4 using his phone nuraber it goes via iMessage to the iphone4 only.
If I sent a message from my iPad to his iPhone4 using his phone nuraber, the iPad likes that ( some how knows that it's mapped to his apple I'd?) and he received on his iPhone4 AND iPad from [email protected] not his phone nuraber.

So the confusion starts. On his iPhone4 he has two threaRAB, one from my phone nuraber and one from my apple I'd. Depending on which he replies to, one I get on my iPad, one I don't.

Is this behaviour expected? It's confusing the hell out of us both...

Apple seems t have worked out that my phone nuraber is tied to my apple ID, so why then do we get separate iMessages appearing. Why not merge them. And further more, if my iPhone gets an iMessage sent to my phone nuraber, why doesn't that get sent to my iPad too?

Anyone help?
 
I had the same problem and figured it out.. In Settings go to Messages , there you must choose you Apple id instead of phone nuraber .
You will then have all your messages on iPhone and iPad. It worked for me !
 
He must be talking about the "Caller ID" option. However, for me this is not the answer. With your email instead of phone nuraber as the caller id, the messages with your frienRAB will show up as your email. Your sms texts will still come from your phone nuraber and be a separate conversation. This does allow the conversations to sync between devices but the phone's sync with imessage and regular texts.
 
On your Phone : Settings ☞ Received At ☞ Then change to your email instead of your phone nuraber .
Only then will your messages be sync on both iPhone and iPad.
Hope this helps ...
 
I'm not to sure I understand what you are saying ....sorry , I'm french....nobody's perfect ;-)

On my phone when I want to send a message , I put in the name of my contact . When putting phone nuraber :if it shows in blue that means my contact has an iPhone (With iOS5) , if green then the message will go as a regular SMS.

With email address ,the same color code applies . If blue ☞ iMessage . If green ☞ MMS .
 
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