Receiving SMS on Skype

It would be extremely wonderful if SMS can be received on Skype. I think it's quite inconvenient to be receiving SMS only on the phone while sending them from the PC or tablet.

Vasil22 wrote:
Can I receive sms messages to my my Skype Online Number, pls?
No, you can't receive SMS messages on a Skype Online Number.
You can set up a mobile number as your Skype Caller ID settings, which would show as the sender for your SMS messages. Then the recipients would have a way to reply to your SMS messages sent from Skype, back to a mobile phone instead of your Skype account. This would work for mobile numbers from most countries, except for mobile numbers from Japan and Mexico.
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Receiving SMS in Skype Number

I want to be able to receive confirmation sms for various services using Skype Number.
Tried sending one from my mobile to my Skype Number to test and it doesn't seem to work. Am I missing something?
Thanks for your feedback!
Francisco

Hi, Duendetico, and welcome to the Community,
Skype Numbers can not receive SMS replies; the replies are routed to your mobile phone. More about this here: https://support.skype.com/en/faq/FA676/can-i-send-sms-text-messages-to-any-number
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Elaine
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Why can't I receive sms on skype?

I paid for skype credit specifically so that I could send and recieve texts. Why can't people return skype texts? I would not have paid for the service if I knew it was only for sending, since you can send text messages for free online!

fmarinescu wrote:
I also want to know the answer to this question. I'm willing to buy a Skype ONLINE NUMBER if it means that I can recieve return SMS.
You can't receive SMS messages with Skype's Online Numbers.
In most countries, these Online Numbers are either "landline" or some other special Voice-over-IP class of number, not a mobile number. If you have a mobile number set up as Caller ID with your Skype account, SMS messages can be sent from Skype and carry that mobile number as the "sender" of the message. Replies would then go to the mobile number, not to Skype.
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Receiving sms to skype phone number

Hi, I'm wondering if it's possible to receive SMS texts to your skype phone number? I have a phone number associated with my skype account and would like to send as well as receive to this number.

This does not work for me.
I am on Skype 5.7.0.1130 for the Mac.
In the Skypereferences . . . :Messaging windoid.
I click on the "Set Number..." dropdown menu and type in my mobile phone number. I keep getting the message that "Error on sending code to mobile phone" etc.
Now -- perhaps this is my issue, I have a brand new Skype mobile phone number for Germany. So new that I just got it two days ago. I was expecting to be able to send and receive text messages on this -- primarily from my bank and places like that which send you secret codes to your SMS when you are trying to log in. Does this work? Can it work? Why is it so hard to actually talk to a Skype Customer Support person??

RECEIVING sms on Skype Online Number.

Can I receive sms messages to my my Skype Online Number, pls?

Vasil22 wrote:
Can I receive sms messages to my my Skype Online Number, pls?
No, you can't receive SMS messages on a Skype Online Number.
You can set up a mobile number as your Skype Caller ID settings, which would show as the sender for your SMS messages. Then the recipients would have a way to reply to your SMS messages sent from Skype, back to a mobile phone instead of your Skype account. This would work for mobile numbers from most countries, except for mobile numbers from Japan and Mexico.
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HOW CAN WE GET SKYPE TO ALLOW RECEIVED SMS?

hey yall friends, moderators, and hopefully someone from the actual skype company.
what is the deal? why are we not able to receive sms texts (except from people with smartphones who can do mobile to landline text to voice features)?
can we somehow come to a compromise, a creative solution. it is just stupid to be able to send sms messages but not receive them. people even send them back and they go nowhere, thinking they communicated but we never receive anything.
if we have bought an online number and a subscription doesnt it make sense we should be able to receive text? that was one of the first features of skype original.
what is the blockage that is stopping this easy feature from being included? is it that phone companies charge the recipient company (skype) for texting? and skype doesnt know how to deal with that, or want to? i think even if you charged us .11 cents to receive, we would all do that. you could even make an SMS subscription to pay for costs.
if skype is going to continue to grow as a company and as a useful feature. this is the next step. i hope we all understand and appriciate that.
again, 1 way SMS is just non-functional and barely-useful. communication is a two way street. please let us make something happening.
here i am planting the seed.
~e

That is also my request. I'm using TextPlus on my Android phone to send and receive free SMS messages. (Yes, it gave me a free phone number.) However, I would rather just use Skype with an online number to send and receive SMS messages. And SMS needs to be free. With Skype's other paid services, free SMS should be possible.

How can I receive SMS on my Skype phone?

I've just setup my new Skype phone and tried to send myself an SMS from another mobile. Seems that the call can go trhoughm while SMS don't - any reason for that?

You cannot receive SMS on any iPad.
The iPad is not a cellular telephone. SMS relies on cellular telephone networks.
You can send/receive iMessages to other Apple devices.

Would like to receive SMS message on Skype

I don't have mobile phone and just got the skype online# yesterday in US area. How can I get the SMS message on skype. If I cannot get the SMS message online there is no need for me to get the online#. Thanks for your help!

Hello,
Thank you for your post.
Unfortunately, Skype Online Numbers are unable to be used for sending or receiving SMS messages right now. We appreciate your feedback and the product teams are always working on new features so please stay tuned!
Thanks,
Enlai

Why does skypein numbers not allow receiving sms?

Does anyone have a definitive answer as to why skype has never done this, very useful function.
I AND MILLIONS OF OTHERS WOULD LOVE THIS SKYPE. WHY CAN YOU NOT PLEASE DO IT FOR GOODNESS SAKE!!!!
SMS IS EASIER THAN VOICE !!!!
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE

Does anyone have a definitive answer as to why skype has never done this, very useful function.
I don't have the definitive answer for your question. It is possible that Skype is not able to receive SMS messages because Skype does not operate a mobile phone carrier - or does not partner with mobile carriers in different countries, as Skype does with other non-mobile carriers for services we currently have. I was told in another part of these community forums that SMS messages can be received on German landlines, but this appears to be a rare thing compared to most of the world. Skype's numbers are usually set up to work like regular landline numbers or - in some countries - may be a special class of number (nomadic or VOIP, for example).
Subject to government regulations in the different countries, Skype would have to partner with mobile phone carriers in different countries, and then have the ability to issue Online Numbers that would appear to the telephone network to be either mobile numbers or special numbers that have the ability to receive SMS. Between the technical and legal hurdles Skype would have to go through, it is possible they are very happy with having the online numbers that work for receiving voice calls. (For some posting all over these forums, there are some countries that Skype users would be very happy to get an Online Number for voice calls - Canada comes to mind)
Approaching Skype Customer Support, instead of these community forums frequented mostly by other Skype users, may be a good thing. Then you might be able to get an answer from Skype directly. No guarantees, of course, but you'll never know if you don't try.
Good luck!
Patrick
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Receive SMS?

hi guys, just bought an online number. How do I receive sms on it?

ernestnapoleon wrote:
hi guys, just bought an online number. How do I receive sms on it?
You can't.
When using Skype to send SMS messages, you can configure your Skype account to send a mobile phone number as the sender of your SMS messages. Then any replies would go to that mobile number. Skype's Online Numbers cannot be used to receive SMS, as they are classified as "landline" or "VOIP" numbers incapable of receiving SMS.
Patrick
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Receive SMS to online number

Is that possible to receive SMS to my online number from any providers?

You could try doing a bare minimum of searching before cluttering the forum up with duplicate questions.
http://community.skype.com/t5/Community-feedback/Receiving-SMS-MESSAGES-TO-SKYPE-or-ONLINE-NUMBER-vi...

SMS to Skype online numbers (US)

Please confirm if I can receive SMS messages, e.g ATM Messages sent to a US Online Number.
Thanks.
Chinua

On further investigation it appears this is still not possible in the US, although it kind of works in the UK & Germany.
http://community.skype.com/t5/Subscriptions/can-online-number-receive-SMS-message/td-p/19348
It appears there may be other ways using a virtual mobile number (not available through Skype) and/or Google Voice.

Receiving texts on skype online number

Can we receive text messages (sms) on skype online numbers?

emon992 wrote:
Can we receive text messages (sms) on skype online numbers?
No. Skype's Online Numbers are not capable of receiving SMS messages.
If you want to provide a way for people to reply to your SMS messages, you can use the Caller ID settings and configure a mobile number to appear on your SMS messages sent from Skype. This requires Skype to send two SMS messages to your mobile number, which would be paid for with Skype Credit. Once the mobile number is verified, it will be shown as the sender for your SMS messages from Skype. This is available for mobile numbers in most parts of the world, excliding mobile numbers in Japan and Mexico.
Patrick
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I am not a Skype employee. No soy un empleado de Skype.

Not able to send or receive SMS messages on iMessage on mac

When I first updated to Yosemite the new SMS feature on iMessage was working. I had to replace my home button and screen on my iPhone 5s and after that it stopped working. I am not sure if having that repair done on my phone has anything to do with my above problem. Please help

Hi Ralph,
Thank you for your reply.
Ok, I will try to explain myself better.
When I say:
- Messages, I am talking about the software to send and receive iMessages and SMS.
- iMessage, is the blue bubble
- SMS is the green bubble
Facetime is because if someones callsme and I do not answer quickly on iPhone, and the Macs are using the same network as iPhone, the VoiceCall pops ups and rings, and usually I activate the Facetime option (when is a iPhone). Sorry about this confusion.
So basically, a week ago, I could send and receive SMS, iMessage on my Macs to/from anyone.
Now, I just can send iMessages (blue bubbles with blue name/contact on top [TO:]) and I can't send SMS (text messages, green bubble), I receive error (red exclamation point) and the name/contacts on top [To:] are red.
And as I told, I think it might be because of the new iOS update with iTunes recovery. Because it is the only similar thing I can relate with "loyalchiver" (when an iPhone goes to repair, the restore it.) That's why I tried signout/in in all Macs, but still not working.
About the Text Forwarding function, I had searched and what I was getting was to go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding, but this last option didn't appear, so I thought this was because the pages/foruns that I was reading was for the version 8.1 and not 8.1.1 (Apple could change it, I don't know). But while I was trying to put this working, I had rebooted some where and when I saw your reply, I went again there, and I had the Text Message Forwarding option, so all I had to do was activating it. Thank you!
To "labelchiver", I am not sure how I did it, but try this:
1. close all applications running on background.
2. reboot your iphone.
3. go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding .
4. If you can enter there and your mac is linked, unlink it and link it again.
5. Hope it works for you
Once again, thank you for your help and I apologize for my confusions about the labels. Cheers!

Verizon iPhone 4S stopped being able to receive SMS messages last night. Any ideas?

My wife and I have had our iPhone 4S's since they first became available in 2011. Up until last night we had not had any issues. All of a sudden a couple of our relvatives called us and said they could not send us text messages, they were getting Not Delivered messages or SMS Failure, depending on their carrier/device (they do not have iPhones). My wife and I were still able to send iMessages to each other, but when I shut off iMessage to debug, we were not able to send SMS messages to each other. Turned iMessage back on and we are able to message back and forth.
Note, our two iPhones share the same Apple ID, but each phone's iMessage is associated with a different phone number and email. Both phones were on iOS 6.0.2
I searched this forum and Verizon for solutions, tried several starting with reboot, delete all existing messages, delete contact and finally did a backup and factory restore via iTunes for my device only. Still no luck, I cannot receive SMS messages.
I had not yet installed iOS 6.1.x after reading of some of the issues. However, since I tried a factory restore to fix this, I was foreced to updated to 6.1.2.
We did not receive the message that we have reached the 75,000 message limit, but just to be sure, we deleted all old messages and still nothing.
So to summarize:
iMessage works fine, send and receive between the two of us and other iPhone users
We are able to send SMS messages, we have confirmed that people can receive our SMS messages
We cannot receive SMS message. We never see the messages and the people who try to text us get undeliverable messages.
All started yesterday evening.
Any help is much appreciated.
Darin

Contact your carrier to confirm that your messaging plan is properly provisioned. They are responsible for routing your sms messages.

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