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This makes it really easy to communicate with every possible mobile phone user out there right from the desktop of Mac OS X, since SMS is the standard text messaging protocol and supported by quite literally every cellular phone and cell phone provider. When finished, you can now both send text messages out from the Mac, and also receive text messages on your Mac in the Messages app.

The Mac will now verify the iPhone and Mac are authorized to communicate and send SMS texts through one another, and texting support will work in a moment.

From the iPhone, enter the six digit numerical code shown on the Mac screen exactly, then tap on “Allow”.

From the Mac, wait for a popup to appear that will say something like “To send and receive your iPhone text messages from (phone number) on this Mac, enter the code below on your iPhone”.

From the iPhone Text Message settings, locate the name of the Mac you want to enable send/receive SMS Text Message support for and toggle the switch next to the Mac name to the ON position (in this example it’s called Yosemite Air).

From the iPhone, open Settings app, go to “Messages” and then go to “Text Message Forwarding”.

From the Mac, open the Messages app if you haven’t done so already.

You’ll need both the Mac and iPhone handy to finish the setup:

#SMS MAC SETUP CODE NOT SHOWING HOW TO#

How to Enable SMS Text Message Support in Mac OS X Messages App Assuming that you meet the software and hardware requirements just outlined, let’s go ahead and add traditional texting support to the Messages app on the Mac. That may sound like a lot but it’s really not, basically it requires that you have modern versions of Mac OS X and iOS with the Messaging feature enabled on both. First, the Mac must be running Mac OS X 10.10 or newer, Messages must be configured on that Mac, there must be a nearby iPhone with iOS 8.1 or newer using the same iCloud ID as the Mac, and the texting feature must be enabled on the iPhone and confirmed on the Mac through Messages app. Setting up SMS Relay is pretty easy but it requires a particular set of software and hardware requirements to work. This basically means that you can talk to someone using an Android, Windows phone, ancient flip phone, with the standard SMS texting protocol right from your Mac Messages app.

#SMS MAC SETUP CODE NOT SHOWING FOR MAC OS X#

The Mac Messages app has long had support for sending and receiving iMessages, and now the latest versions of Messages for Mac OS X support a new feature which allows you to send and receive SMS text messages as well.

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