Messaging and facetime phone number issues
I have an iPhone 3 for work, an iPhone 4S that's my personal phone on my Apple ID and a macair and my iPad(I use one ID for all devices) I don't use facetime on the iphone3 but I do have message sync turned on. The iPhone 3 did have phone my work and personal cell associated. But it just updated and now only recognizes my work number.
I have checked my Apple ID. I only have personal number on it which is the phone number associated with the iPhone 4S. None on my other devices recognizes the iphone4 number as the number to use for messaging and facetime.
I do not want my computer or iPad to reference my work phone number but I can't find a way to get the settings to update any ideas?
Never mind. I finally got it to work. For those with similar issue. Turn off messaging and facetime on all devices. Then turn back on for all devices with iPad being last to turn on.
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TS3367 Ipad - facetime phone number
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http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
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http://osxdaily.com/2011/10/18/set-up-imessage-on-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch-with-io s-5/
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http://www.quepublishing.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1873027&seqNum=3
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http://tinyurl.com/k683gr4
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http://support.apple.com/kb/TS2755
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