IMessage sent as iCloud instead of Text

My iMessages were being sent as text (from macbook and ipad). It is now sending as iCloud...I need it to send as text from iphone, macbook and ipad.

describe what you mean by "iMessage sent as iCloud". iCloud is a storage service, not for. text messaging.

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IMessages sent from icloud address/phone number=2 conversations!

This is a long-standing issue that defies resolution. At times, my iphone or my wife's iphone will send iMessages from our iCloud addresses instead of our phone number. So if my wife sends an iMessage to me, I sometimes get a new message from "[email protected]". Although her name, email addresses and phone number are in my Contacts, this new conversation shows up as her email address. We used to think it was because she travels abroad and uses wi-fi in her hotel that caused the phone to use an email address rather than her number because she was out of the UK. Not so! Here's what happened today: My wife sent me and our 2 children iMessages from London Heathrow to us three at home. My message came through as from her email address, my daughter's also came through from her email address, but my son, a few yards down the hallway got his from her phone number.
This is a typical scenario which can work the other way round when it's ME sending her the iMessages where she gets my message as though I'd sent it from my email address rather than the phone number.
I have been through all the hoops I know of to sort this but I just can't fix it. I don't know whether it's the iPhone, iCloud or what that's at fault. But it is driving me mad.
In this morning's case, I replied to her message by using an older (yesterday's) conversation to send my iMessage to her, and her reply to that came to me via her phone number, as expected, and good as gold. Had I just replied to her iMessage, it would have perpetuated the TWO conversations. I have tried logging out and back in, deleting the accounts and reinstating them, re-entering the settings, making sure that the "Start new conversations from..." is set up correctly and so on. Then after a while, it returns, randomly, to sending texts from the email and starts a new conversation again. And you can't combine the 2 conversations even when you go to Details-Add to existing contact etc.
I have also just been informed by a supplier that my iMessages to him are showing up as my email address not my phone number, despite my iphone being set to 'Start conversations from +44777...etc"
Please throw out suggestions as you wish and I'll be grateful, even if it's one I've already tried and failed with.
This icloud is a nightmare.
Many thanks in advance.
Chris
iphone 6, latest iOS

Bump.
So no one knows anything about this, or how to correct this iMessage bug?

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Something doesn't make any sense here, because iMessage ONLY works between you and anyone using an iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch with iOS 5, you couldn't iMessage someone that DIDN'T meet those requirements, if you wanted to. Are you positive this contact does not meet the requirements to iMessage?

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So my friend that I text with occassionaly has left Apple for Android (i know right?). Anyway, we had a nice little iMessage session going but now that she has continued texting me from her android, my iPhone insists on replying via iMessage and will not switch to text. I've deleted the thread, deleted her as a contact, restarted my phone, typed in just her number for the text, but alas, it still tries to send it as an iMessage.
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It doesn't affect what she sends you. What happens is that when you reply, iMessage checks Apple's servers and finds a device active with her phone number, so it tries to send it as an iMessage. iMessage is tied to the phone number as well as an e-mail address.
Tell her to try this:
Go to: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
Log in if not already logged in.
Click on "edit products"
Click on the "x" to the right of the product.
Click "unregister"

IMessage sent from email address rather than phone number...

I'm having similar problems with my iMessage update under iOS 5. When I send text messages to other iPhone users, it appears as iMessage and from my email address rather than my phone number. I went into Settings > Messages > Receive At, but there's no option to add my phone number. It keeps showing my Apple Account, which I registered under for iMessage and iCloud with my email address. It only allows me to add another email address. From what I can tell, non-iPhone users are still receiving my text messages from my number like regular. If I turn iMessage OFF, I'm sending regular text messages to all users. Anyone have a fix yet? I'm wondering if this was an Apple goof that won't be resolved until the next iPhone update.

What I am curious about is, how do I know if what I'm sending is coming from my number as a text message or as an iMessage with my Apple ID. I'm really asking this specifically because, I have friends overseas who I have been texting..now we have iMessenger.. but how do I know it's not being sent as a text instead (therefore costing me money)? Just because it's being sent using their email?
I've used a Blackberry before, and they have their texting & BBM as two seperate applications with two seperate icons...kinda hoping Apple had done the same here :/
Any help would be great thanks

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Iphone 4 facetime and imessage OFF but still sending activation text

I have an iphone 4 (IOS 7) with Facetime and IMessage turned off in settings but everytime the phone is turned on, (and randomly while the phone is on) a text message is sent to 447786305094 (activation). This costs me 25c each time. I do not always get the warning pop up warning about the costs.
Why is it doing this when the applications are TURNED OFF in the settings?
Is there a fault with my phone or is it just the way apple does things?
I have tried turning the applications on and off a number of times, resetting the network settings, hard reboot and even restoring through itunes to fresh system.
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Thanks lizdance40, I do have a text package with my carrier and want to use that only as their data package isn't good so i have cellular data turned off. I have used iMessage before but i don't want to use it with this setup.
The carrier i am using is also 'unsupported' for the iphone, that is why i am getting charged for the iMessage / Facetime activation text. 'Supported' carriers don't charge for the activation text.
I am certain the activation texts are for iMessage and/or Facetime, does iCloud need activation texts? Either way, i also have iCloud turned off.
I just don't understand why the activation/registration texts are being sent when the applications are supposedly turned off.

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maggielou wrote:
I thought that I had backed up my pictures to icloud, but when I looked online at icloud, I don't see pictures listed. However, a few of the recent pictures have shown up on my phone.
IHow could I get these from my MacBook to my phone?
Thanks again.
When you log into you icloud account on your computer you are viewing data that you sync to icloud not the backups. You can't view the backups.
Look at the two links I provided.
You still didn't answer any of my two questions I asked.

My young kids have ipads and since I updated the software, but they have their own icloud account, predictive text within their messages shows all my contacts from my iphone but the contacts are not listed as their contacts, how do I stop this?

My young kids have ipads and since I updated the software, but they have their own icloud account, predictive text within their messages shows all my contacts from my iphone but the contacts are not listed as their contacts, how do I stop this?

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IMessage sent to verizon phone number not received

My friend has a Verizon iPhone 4S and an iPad.
She has her phone # and email address associated with iMessage on both the iPhone and the iPad.
As of today, iMessages sent to her phone number (for example, from my AT&T iPhone 5 and everyone else) never appear on her iPhone.
These iMessages, however, do appear in "Messages" on the iPad.
iMessages sent to the e-mail address do appear on both the iPhone and iPad!
This is really bad, as she is not getting any iMessages sent to the phone number on the iPhone ( that is any text message from anyone on the iMessage network).
Any ideas? This is so bizarre. I can imagine an iMessage getting lost, but why would it just not appear on one device...

SIgned out ALL devices of iMessage
Sent text message to the iPhone - it showed up as a regular green text message as expected
Signed devices back in , starting with the iPhone
Back at the same situation. iPhone not getting iMessages that are sent to the phone #.
I wonder if there is some problem in the IMessage world.

Must others register w/iMessage before I can send them text messages??

Must others register w/iMessage befor I can send them text messages??

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Dear Johnathan and Apple developers,
I oftem use the iMessage with my girlfriend, she has an iPhone 4S and I just upgraded my old iPhone 4 to iPhone 5. We just updated to iOS 6.1 and we are experiencing troubles with iMessage. We often disable the cell data to save battery, but, for example, if I`m online and she is offline (without data enabled or wifi) and I try to send a message to her, the message is sented as iMessage (blue box) that is marked as received, but she only receives the message when she gets online (sometimes hours later). Sometimes I can do a fast manoever and if the message is not marked as received I can hit the blue box and choose "sent as SMS", but if it is marked as received the only thing I can do is copy the message and try to do this manoever again as fast as I can, before the delivery. This troubles happens with both of us.
I expected if she is offline the possibility of sending the message should be only through SMS. Maybe there is some issue with iMessage server that can`t verify if she is online every time.
This is really messing with our messages, and sometimes we receive lots of unorganized messages when we get online. When I was in my Iphone 4 and we were iOS 5.1 our SMS and iMessages were different conversations in each device (for some reason that I can`t explain). There is any way to do this again in iOS 6.1? Split the conversations between SMS and iMessage?
Sorry for the long text, I`m an engineer and a tried to be the most metodic I could.
Thanks a lot
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