Text Message Forwarding Not Displaying MacBook Pro
I am having an issue in which one of my MacBook Pros no longer appears in the menu for "Text Message Forwarding" on my iPhone 6.
I have two MacBook Pros (named MBP Old and MBP New), I only see MBP Old in the "Text Message Forwarding" menu.
Yesterday, this was all working correctly, and MBP New was appearing and active in the "Text Message Forwarding" menu on my iPhone.
Devices Used:
Mid 2013 Retina MBP 15" on Yosemite 10.10.2
iPhone 6 on iOS 8.1.3
I have performed the following in different combinations/orders in my attempt to resolve the issue (with no fix so far):
Logged out of iMessage/iCloud accounts on MBP
Rebooted MBP
Re-Enabled iMessage / iCloud accounts on MBP
Disabled iMessage/FaceTime on my iPhone
Rebooted iPhone 6
Re-Enabled iMessage/FaceTime on my iPhone
Reset network settings on my iPhone
Rebooted iPhone 6
Ensured all devices were on the same Wi-Fi network and connection was working
This was all working last night and I made no changes this then, so I am quite confused.
I'm having a similar issue as Yashar_S. I have an iPhone 5, a 3rd-gen iPad, a mid-2009 MacBook Pro, and an iMac 5K. All are running the latest os, as appropriate (iOS 8.2. OS 10.10.2). All are logged into the same Apple ID, have the same listing of phone number and email addresses for iMessage, etc. On my iPhone, under Text Message Forwarding, I see my iPad, but only *one* of my computers -- whichever one was the last that I logged out-then-back-in to iMessage.
Before this latest Yosemite update, my iPhone would list two computers, but they would be duplicate listings, though only one of the listings would work. In order to have the iPhone recognize the new iMac, I had to put my MBP to sleep (or shutdown) -- it wasn't enough to log it out of iMessage.
So I'm wondering if the "fix" to the duplicate listings issue was only a partial (i.e., cosmetic) fix and not the true, complete fix at all?
Sigh!
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