IChat to messages - phone and macbook intertwined
My daughter and I both have macbooks - she is on mountain lion, I am on lion.
She has messages and i have ichat.
We both have iphones. I am on ios6 she is on ios5
When she sends messages to me at my me.com email address from her macbook in messages it comes to my phone but not to my ichat on my mac.
How can we get to chat macbook to macbook.
Hi,
iMessages is something that Messages (App on Mac or iOS Device) can do.
This is in addition to the former iChat services such as using AIM or Jabber.
That is to say that on her Message App she set sup an iMessage Account (Apple ID "registered" for iMessages)
She can or could set up and AIM valid Name or a Jabber ID as you can in iChat.
iChat does not do iMessages.
So Apple Issued IDs are also Valid AIM Screen Names (Those ending @mac.com and @me.com)
Both of you may be able to set these up as AIM names in your app (older version of iChat have separate @me.com and @mac.com settings)
iCloud Issued @me.com name need at least iChat 6 to work (iChat 6 and Messages also login to me.com that then allows the AIM server to "see" the password.
This may mean that your daughter has two Accounts both using the Apple ID (one with iMessages and one with AIM - I do this)
9:28 PM Thursday; September 27, 2012
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