IMessage not in sync

I have enabled iMessage on both an iPhone and an iPad.
My iPad stays close to home, and it always connected to the WiFi network.
My iPhone has spotty reception sometimes, and as such, I don't receive some of the iMessages my friends send me when I'm in an out-of-service area.
However, with SMS, my messages arrive when I come back to an area with cellular reception. With iMessage, however, my iPad already received the message and apple doesn't bother to send another copy to my iPhone. So oftentimes, I'll miss a significant number of iMessages when I'm on the go because my iPhone is only getting some of the messages. Is there any way to get Apple to forward all the iMessages to my iPhone regardless of whether my iPad has received it or not?

Hi,
That is correct.
Those iMessages sent from the Apple ID using Messages on an iOS device or a Mac should sync across all those devices.
For instance I send a set of Pics from my Mac to my Apple ID so it goes to my iPhone will also show those Sync'ed back as "received" by the same Apple ID
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It did seem in the Messages beta that you had to clear all existing Messages off the iOS device before it would sync to the Apple ID.
(As if the Messages app on the iPhone and the Messages app on the Mac were "Starting" from the "same place").
There have been suggestions that getting the iPhone to make a break with the server such as switching the iPhone Off then On again will allow it to Sync all exiting Messages when it reconnects.
The iPhone does need to be set to the Apple ID for the iMessages it sends to sync tgo the Mac or any other iOS device.
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