Integrated messaging for second line

Question

My daughter set up integrated messaging on her phone for use with the web through my verizon online . We would like to do the same for my phone but  do not see an option to set up my phone (an additional line on same account). Is this feature only for the primary account holder? If not, can someone instruct us how to set it up for my phone?

Answer 1

guitardeerrun wrote:
1. If you activate Integrated Messaging Service (IMS) for one phone on the plan, is it activated for all phones on the plan?
2. If not, how do you activate other phones on the plan?  You need to have a login and password for EACH line on your shared family or share everything plan.  Secondary lines will only see information related to their line of service, and the account owner can see call, text, and data details and manage all the lines (but they cannot see actual texts unless logged in under each separate line).
3. When you activate, does an automated Verizon message go to the phone announcing IMS, - or not. Not sure....I don't remember.
4. Where and when does the message push occur - on server to phone & web simultaneously - or does message go to phone first, then handshake back to server for the push to the web.  This latter method then implies an app install on the phone which talks back to server saying now push out to the web.
The 'app-on-phone' is what I want to avoid, hence one of my questions is "Do you just accept terms and messages begin appearing on web, - or must you first install and activate app on the phone.  I hope some of the Verizon knowledge people see, understand and reply.
I had the Messaging app on my phone initially, and on the tablet.  I removed it from the phone as I was getting the texts twice (native texting and the app) and I preferred the native texting on the phone.  Since my tablet is wifi only, I like being able to access messages and text with the tablet using my phone number.
I really haven't used the application on the computer, no need to, but when I do pull it up, all my messages are there. 
I did activate it on my phone first, then the tablet.  But I have since removed it from my phone - so you don't have to have it on the phone for it to work.
A couple of things I DON'T like about it:
It doesn't sync with my contacts list, so all I see are numbers of contacts who text me.  I don't know everyone's numbers, so I have to read through a few messages to figure out who the thread is with, and I haven't figured a way to get names instead of numbers to display.
It also doesn't sync read and unread messages.  My tablet has tons of unread messages, even though I have received and read the messages on my phone.  Maybe because I don't have the app on my phone any longer?  But it seems it was working that way before I removed it from the phone - the two did not "sync".  Maybe I'll try putting it back on the phone to see if the sync happens....
In answer to @flapship - you need to set up a separate MyVerizon account for each line, then you can set up the Integrated Messaging for that line.