IMessage from a mac

How can I send an iMessage from my mac and have it show my phone number, and not my emal address??

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Can I transfer my iMessages from my Mac to my iPhone?

I got a new iPhone 5s recently and unfortunately my backup on my previous phone wasn't up to date. That phone has been wiped clean and is long gone now. I also have a Mac and have all my recent iMessages up to date on my Mac. (All archived) The iMessages that show on my new phone are old and I want to see if there is a way to transfer the iMessages from my Mac to my phone in order for it to be up to date. I understand that backing it up to the iCloud would have been the easiest way to go about it, but I believe that my last backup didn't complete because of a lack of space and I got a new phone before fixing that problem. Any help would be great! I would also like to do this for the Notes app as well.

Sorry, no. There is no way to restore those iMessages or Notes without a backup.

How do i disable iMessage from my mac, i have looked at other comments and there is no option to disable it when messages are open

how do i disable iMessage from my mac, i have looked at other comments and there is no option to disable it when messages are open

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TS2755 can't sign in on my phone. "please check network connection". but i can sign into iCloud on my phone & iMessages from my mac

I can't sign in to iMessage on my phone. It says "please check network connection" however i can sign into iCloud on my phone & can sign into iMessages from my mac.
Obvvioulsy I've tried a hard reset & I restored my phone to stock yesterday.

So, considering there have been 20 odd pages on queries since I posted this I'm guessing I aint gonna get any help here, so does anyone know if it's possible to get help from Apple without having to pay? I cant get to a genius bar. I'm looking for an email address maybe? I've spent hours searching through forums & have scoured Apples support pages & as far as I can tell the only way to get anything from Apple is by paying them - I've had my phone over a year you see.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Why can't I login to iMessages from my Mac?

Why can't I login to iMessages from my Mac? It just started all of a sudden, all my iMessage conv's are offline. I tried but get an error message that states "Your Apple ID "xxxxxxxx" can't be used to set up iMessage at this time" and then a customer code to contact apple. This would require a pay for advice payment I'd rather not do.
Anyone have any ideas?

There is no official public documentation of that alert as far as I know, but according to reports, it can sometimes mean that the same Apple ID is being used with the iTunes Store or one of the other Apple content stores, and the payment method is invalid. Sign in to the store and review your account. You do not, of course, have to provide any billing information to set up an account to use only with iMessage, as it's a no-charge service.
Otherwise, do what the alert tells you to do. According to reports, you won't be charged for the support call if you select "Apple ID" as the product and cite the customer code in the alert as the "validation code" to the representative.

I am trying to imessage from my mac because my phone is broken, where is the message icon on my mac?

i am trying to imessage from my mac because my phone is broken, where is the message icon on my mac?

The easiest way to find it would be to type "messages" in spotlight. Spotlight is the magnifying glass on you menu bar at the top right of the screen.

How can i imessage from my mac?

how can i imessage from my mac?

If you have Mac OS X 10.6.8 like your product info indicates, you cannot. Messages requires OS X Mountain Lion (10.8) or later.
See Updating Mac OS.

Hi how can i use imessage from my mac

hi how can i use imessage from my mac , i tried to text message to one of my contact name but it said the number is not registered with imessage so how can i registered all my contacts to the imessage . thanks

The person you try to contact has to register his number/his appleID with iMessage.

Why can't send iMessages from my Mac to my iPhone anymore and opposide?

Since today I can't send any iMessage from my Mac to my iphone and opposite. If I try to send it from my phone to my e-mail(which I have to recieve on my PC, or I used to, it says "Not delivered" or If I try to send a iMessage from my Mac to my iphone, I automaticly recieve that iMessage, but instead on my phone its on my PC again, just on different box. I think there is something to do with my accounts, but I have tried anything possible and I can't figure this out!

HI,
Just to be clear.
There are three folders called "Library" on a Mac with only the original Admin account. *see fourth Library below.
If you open the Hard Drive to it's top level then you can read Library, System and Users (As well as Applications and anything you have put here.
If you open the System one then there is a Library folder as the next step there.
Also in Users > the name of your Account (Little House icon) then there is one in here.
However since Lion this has been Invisible.
Using the Finder > Go Menu > Go to Folder and entering ~/Library will open a window in that Library
You can also make the Folder Visible on permanent basis if you need to.
Generally Spotlight will not display the results from the ~/Library which is why you will not find it this way.
Fourth Library.
Since Sandboxing came into being the Containers folder has many "Library" folders that apply to each app that can be sandboxed.
Basically all are at the same depth of Containers/Data/App Name/Library.
As you say it is working I would not worry too much about it.
I have just finished installing OS X 10.9.3 and my Users folder seems to be the next one to become Invisible.
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Can i do imessage from my mac book pro

Can I set up imessage on my mac book pro?

When you first start Mountain Lion, you should be prompted to enter an AppleID. If you skipped that step, when you open Messages from the Applications folder or your Dock, you'll be prompted to enter an AppleID. And then you're set up to send and receive messages.
Matt

Remove iMessage from public mac??

So basically I was using a public mac and was signed into iMessage and was using it whilst I worked.
At end of session i removed computer and logged out of iMessage from the app and went into iTunes and removed association of the computer
I recently changed my Apple ID password and when I was activating my iphone after a restore this morning it popped up saying that the "macs name" will use "my number" for iMessage and there was no way to click no or cancel just an okay button.. Ive looked in iMessage settings to see if there's anything i can do but I can't find anything...
Help as I don't want my messages to still be sending to this mac!

On the Mac you were using, did you go to Messages>Preferences>Accounts & sign out & remove the check to enable this account:

When typing an iMessage from a Mac or other non iPhone device how do you get a subject field?

From the iPhone there is now an option to add a subject field to your iMessages. This can be nice but what about doing it from the MAC or other device. Also how do you insert a line break (which I'm told is alt/option enter) from an iPhone. Sorry two questions in one.

Hi,
The Messages app on the Mac has no means of indicating a "title" or subject matter.
It only sends messages be they iMessages to Contacts or IM (instant Messages) to Buddies on various services that you could join.
Re 1) The AIM service added the ability to use the "/me" lead in/pre-emptive text which adds the little grey center info text to AIM chats as my pics show.
In other services that do not support "/me" you see a sentence that starts "/me".
On the iPhone as an iMessages item it appears like this
They appear as Sent items due to the Sync process.
Re 2) No.
I am just suggesting using a feature that works in the Messages (and the previous iChat) App using an AIM Account in Messages (as it appears to work at your end all the time in any account) so that you can create something that can be used as a "subject" marker.
re 3) Yes.
The original premise was you sent something like "/me waves" which appears like the time stamps as "Your Name waves" (Your Name on the other depends on what they have in their Address Book or Contacts app as your details (you could appear as just a Buddy ID of some sort.)
Enlarging part of that earlier pic.
The so called Subject one.
Grammatically it could do with a 'has".
Re 4.
AOL (who Own AOL Instant Messenger) gave out AIM names with AOL accounts and with accounts with other companies that they owned.
At one time they owned Netscape Mostly Netscape referred to a Browser that was popular on the Mac at the time. It had a Messenger part added to what it could do and registration gave you an AIM ID (Screen Name)
This tended to be the Username part of your your account name which was an email.
We are talking when there were computers sold by Apple that could boot into OS 9 as easily as they did into OS 10.2.
iChat 2 that did the first Video chats was in OS X 10.3
At that point iChat was an AIM only client. This continued until iChat 3 which added Jabber (and that version required a small amount of work to add a GoogleTalk ID)
Basically when I bought the G4 Tower listed below I already had an AIM name by preferring to use Netscape over Internet Explorer.
At various points I have tried ProteusX (the Original Site seems to have gone now).
I have also tried AdiumX
Both these were and are text only multiple service apps.
I have used Psi This is a Jabber only app. It is a bit "windowsy" as it is a cross platform app written in Java (means you have to download and Install Java and keep it updated)
I got it for doing this http://allforces.com/2005/05/06/ichat-to-msn-through-jabber/
These instructions need you to be able to "register" for Transport on Jabber servers which then allows you to link to your MSN or other service account to in turn add those Buddies to your Jabber Buddy List.
I have tended to Stick with using my AIM name as my main form in iChat and Messages because it has the Privacy and Security settings that allow you to Block people, or have Allow Specific people or Allow Buddy List only people as ways of restricting who can see when you are on Line.
AIM also works with Apple IDs ending with @mac.com and iCloud linked @me.com and @icloud.com (Lapsed @me.com from MobileMe will not work)
You have to keep the password to 16 characters or less to work with the AIM servers.
There is also MeBeam which has been known as Koowy (coo-we) for a while and currently seems to promote itself as "CuSeeMe.tv"
It as a site you will need Flash for.
It then, when you allow it, has access to your Camera and Microphone and you can video to people in "rooms" (private URL) you create.
I have tried Skype in it's early days.
It shares your connection to the internet to make lots of connections to maintain a non centralised service.
This makes it vunerable to "Man-in-the-Middle" attacks becasue at time you are the man in the middle.
Each download used to list it's own Specified port to use but if you didn't set it it used port 80 (web Browsing or port 110 (mostly mail) to connect. Some see this as defeating your firewall or router as it is not made clear in the set up.
I have Office 2004, and 2008 and whatever the last one for Macs was called. (2011 I see on the box)
This has MSN Messenger which I have tried but don't like (Microsoft do some great Apple apps in the Office collection but MSN is not one of the).
Yahoo has been in some variant of Beta 3 for almost as long as the OS has been OS X (it is certainly about 8 years).
It never seems to get to a first GM release.
This can do "video" but broadcasts this to anyone and the Audio is then to one Buddy.
Basically iChat was the app I used first and an AIM name I already had.
Over the years I have created several Apple ID (some during a time when @mac.com name could be registered as "iChat Names" after the .Mac service had finished).
AIM have always been there.
Google has been there some of the way.
(Other jabber servers can come and go)
I do have my Yahoo account set up in Messages but it basically was as a test and I rarely use it (it is only text and does not do Video in the iChat 6 or Messages apps).
I am not a great phone user so iMessaging people is limited for me.
(I know about 2 people who I could iMessage outside of my family).
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Is there a way to copy iMessages from my Mac to my iPhone?

My apple ID has the slightly frustrating habit of sending iMessages to my computer instead of my phone. Is there a way to move those messages to my iphone instead, so I

Hey there NitaHight,
It sounds like you are unable to get all your iMessages to your phone, as they all seem to go to your computer instead. I would use these steps from the following article about troubleshooting iMessage, named:
iOS: Troubleshooting Messages
http://support.apple.com/kb/ts2755
If you aren't receiving iMessages across all iOS devices
Go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive on each iOS device and make sure that you signed in with your Apple ID. You must use the same Apple ID on each device.
Go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > You Can Be Reached By iMessage At and make sure that you selected each phone number and email address you want to use with iMessage.
If you linked a phone number to your Apple ID with iMessage and the phone number hasn't appeared, followthese steps.
Sign out of your Apple ID in Settings > Messages > Send & Receive and Settings > FaceTime on all devices.
If you're linking a phone number to an Apple ID, sign in to iMessage on your iPhone first. Then sign in to the rest of your device one by one with iMessage and FaceTime.
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care,
Sterling

How can I completely remove iMessage from my Mac so that it looks brand new?

I already disabled the account in preferences. I don't want any of my message logs to be on my Mac and I do not know how to remove them. Can anyone help me? '
I tried this:
Quit out of Messages for Mac
Hit Command+Shift+G to bring up the “Go To Folder” window
Enter ~/Library/Messages/
Select all files in the Messages directory and move to trash, files will be named chat.db, chat.db-shm, chat.db-wal, etc
Empty the Trash and relaunch iMessages
This didn't work. Any other suggestions?

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Hi,
Settings > Messages > Send and Receive Untick the Apple ID
If it is the current Apple ID remove/Disable that afterwards thn return to Send and Receive and check it has been removed.
You may also need to check the Text Forwarding item and remove the Mac listed if it is the "wrong" one.
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