How To Register A Name On Imessage

Imessage lets you send and receive sms like text messages and mms style multimedia messages just like a phone through your icloud account.

How to register a name on imessage. Set up your phone number. To do so open the group thread and tap the little arrow under the number of people. That is how you do it. It is located in the menu bar at the top of the app. On your iphone devices make sure your iphone is well connected to the internet.

When you go to settings messages send receive and if you see use your apple id for imessage select it. Instead of just a phone number however it can use your email address and it only works with other ipads iphones and macs. Go to settings messages and make sure that imessage is on. It will ask you to sign in with your appleid. Tap send receive.

You can name an imessage group. Tap it and enter a name for the group. 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. You might need to wait a moment for it to activate. You enable imessage in the settings messages.

Before you can start using imessage you ll need to set it up. Make sure that your mac and ios devices are running the latest version of the ios or macos software. Open the taps settings messages on your iphone to tap the button next to imessage to turn imessage on. Tap the info button and on the details screen you will see a name field. Input your apple username and password or click on create apple id to create a new account.

Here s how you do it. Without a device with ios5 you are not able to register an imessage caller id and can not participate in the imessage exchange. Ensure that you sign in with the same apple id on your other devices e g your mac. If you haven t used messages before on this mac you will be prompted to enter or create your apple id. The name will be updated and you will see a notification within the thread telling you that the group s name has been changed.