Turn off iMessage on my imac, Turn off iMessage on my imac
TURN OFF IMESSAGE ON MY IMAC?
Hi bnichols75,
A quick question about that - I had discovered that same process you described above, BUT in my scenario (I have 3 iMacs, and one of the is at our Business and we don't want our employees reading our imessages, but want them to benefit from the syncing of all the other things like Calendar, Emails etc, which we have been doing for the last 3 years). My question is: Will signing out of icloud (from within preferences in imessage) aside from simply "unselecting enable", then sign me out of all icloud features? Or will it simply just deactivate imessage because it's being done from within the Preferences inside of iMessage? I want to make sure that doing the "sign out of iCloud", (from within the imessage application) that it wont sign the entire imac out of iCloud because we still want our business imac to have access to all the other cloud features, like the apps, calendar, email etc. Just NOT the iMessages.
Sorry, I bet this is written more confusingly than it needed to be, but hope you understand what I'm asking. Thanks in advance!
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Hi bnichols75,
A quick question about that - I had discovered that same process you described above, BUT in my scenario (I have 3 iMacs, and one of the is at our Business and we don't want our employees reading our imessages, but want them to benefit from the syncing of all the other things like Calendar, Emails etc, which we have been doing for the last 3 years). My question is: Will signing out of icloud (from within preferences in imessage) aside from simply "unselecting enable", then sign me out of all icloud features? Or will it simply just deactivate imessage because it's being done from within the Preferences inside of iMessage? I want to make sure that doing the "sign out of iCloud", (from within the imessage application) that it wont sign the entire imac out of iCloud because we still want our business imac to have access to all the other cloud features, like the apps, calendar, email etc. Just NOT the iMessages.
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I recently bought a Samsung Galaxy s5 and cannot receive iMessages from iphones, I have deleted my apple id, turned off imessage, turned off spam messages on my android device, wasted 35 minutes on the phone to Apple's 'Support' has anyone got any tips?
Hi,
Do you mean you are not getting SMS text messages now ?
If so start here
Follow the Account management options until you are offered and email contact.
Explain the issue via email as only someone in Support can now remove your iPhone Number from iMessages if it has not "de-registered" itself correctly.
8:28 pm Wednesday; May 7, 2014
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I just downloaded the OS Mavericks onto my iMac. Now all of my imessages on my iphone are also showing up on my iMac. i do not want this. My son may accidently see adult conversations. How do I turn this off on my imac?
Hi,
As Frank Says you can disable the iPhone Number in the iMessages settings on the Mac.
You can remove the Apple ID from the iPhone.
If you want a deeper reset than that so that the iPhone Number does not even show on the Mac's iMessages settings you can do this:-
Access ~/Library/Preferences.
Find the com.apple.ids.service.com.apple.madrid.plist file.
Drag it to the Trash then restart Messages.
You will have to re-add the Apple ID.
At this point if you have not removed the Apple ID on the iPhone (or other device) then you will have to Refuse/Dismiss the pop ups that tell you what the iPhone is using.
You will receive periodic prompts on this from now on unless you remove the Apple ID from the iPhone.
If you want totally private messages on the iPhone you will need to use it with Number only.
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Can you turn off notifications in iMessage?
I sometimes use iMessage on my home computer but I like to sign out when I'm done. Every time I sign back in, I get an email AND a notification on my phone that I've signed in from the computer. This is really annoying. Is there a way to turn off this notification system so I can sign in without getting an email and notice on my phone? I tried the Alert menu in Preferences but there doesn't seem to be a choice there for this option. BTW I'm using 10.8.5 on my iMac and an iPhone 5. Thanks.
Hi,
If...
You use Messages on the Mac with the same ID as you use on the iPhone you will get a pop on the iPhone when you reset the app.
Basically if you deleted the Apple ID off the iPhone and then Added it again you would get a Pop up saying so on the Mac version.
I do not get the pop up when I just shut down the app each night and restart it after work to post here.
Nor do I get it if I untick the "Enable this Account" box.
This suggests your Signing out is a stage too far each time.
I am not sure Carolyn's suggestion will work in this instance, although she could mean set Do Not Disturb instead of Signing out.
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HI,
In the Messages Menu there is an option called Preferences.
This opens the Preferences Pane which has several icons across the top.
One of these is Accounts
One of the Accounts in the List will be the iMessages one.
One of the other iCons across the top is labelled Alerts.
This contains several lines.
The top one is a drop down that then lists several Actions that happen with the App.
One of those actions is "Messages Sent"
It is common here to write Place to start > next step > followed by next step where the > means go to.
This is a series of Actions rather than path to a file such as Users/(your account name)/Library/Preferences
This way can be Copied and Pasted into the Finder's > Go Menu > Go to Folder > Dialogue box (if you substitute your name properly)
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Need to turn off iMessage for an iPhone that no longer works
My daughter broke her iPhone and the motherboard is fried. We got her an Android as a temporary phone until she is due for an upgrade in a few months. The problem is that when we try to text her on the new Andriod, on our iPhones (and any other iPhone that tries to text her) it still sends as an iMessage. Therefore she cannot receive any texts from us unless we turn off our iMessage (which causes us not to be able to receive other iMessages of course!). We went to the Sprint store, and they told us that we would need to turn off the iCloud for her phone, since Apple is recognizing it as still on and associated with her number. I cannot figure out how to do that since we can't access the phone settings. She is traveling this week alone with other family and I really need to be able to text her! She is 12. I appreciate any help.
This is an iPhone 4, with Sprint. We have 3 other iPhones, an iPod 4 and an iPad 2 on the same Apple ID account. We don't use the Cloud storage but I think the iCloud on the phone was turned on for a few things like Calendar.
Thank you in advance.Support profile is here:
https://daw.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/DSAuthWeb.woa/wa/classicLogin?appIdKey= 58ef9db8ff4d201409e7270a68e4408ae1678e1618204c476572a1b5e5fb3518&path&language=U S-EN
She would have had to register the phone using her Apple ID/password.
Changing her Apple ID password is the only other way to fix this if you don't have access to the phone.
You can also "try" calling AppleCare. -
My friend switched his phone number from an iPhone to a Blackberry. My phone still wants to use iMessage to send him a text and won't let me send it as a text unless I turn off iMessage on my phone. Is there a fix for this?
jengrz wrote:
My friend switched his phone number from an iPhone to a Blackberry. My phone still wants to use iMessage to send him a text and won't let me send it as a text unless I turn off iMessage on my phone. Is there a fix for this?
TechCrunch posted a solution today that applies to this problem, I think.
Go to: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
Click your old iPhone and "unregister" it.
More info here:
http://m.techcrunch.com/2012/01/05/i...d=tc_home_art& -
I have a mid-2010 iMac and just purchased a 2TB TC, I just found out that it can't join existing wireless network with new AC standard so attached to iMac via ethernet with TC's wifi turned off. How do i access TC now? not showing up in disk utility or on desktop. It is working fine with TM. My cheeper seagate drives etc kept crashing, so i didnt trust cheeper back up options anymore. Connected those drives to TM via firewire and could see the drives and access them.
Also, I didn't want to bridge TC with my new fios router that I paid 100 dollars for, to get N speed and also paying 10 dollars more a month for fast speed. I heard that bridging slows down everything and then there can be port issues with mail etc. I connect to the internet via airport only and it is pretty fast. Getting over 50mbs downloads and over 30mbs uploads. Plus everything in my home it connected to my fios router, airport express for music streaming, two apple tvs, vuezone camer system. I really didn't want to monkey around too much with my system. But are there other options to connect the new TC. Can't find info anywhere for this and called apple who gave me the info above. after hanging up, i see that i cant access my TC and I am wondering if i would have to reset it to turn wifi on again to make changes to the drive, turn off blinking light or repair it in disk utility if it should become corrupted.
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Now a rant. I can't believe in this wireless age that Apple would make a product that cant join a wireless net work. The apple rep said i could return it and look for the previous TC that would join an existing wireless network. Are we going backwards?
Thanks!
lennydasOk... it is getting a bit clearer but there are still some questions.
I connect to the internet via airport only and it is pretty fast.
I was assuming airport in this statement in your first post meant the TC or the Express.. but I now realise we are still in the mass confusion stage where apple calls everything wireless an airport. So what you mean is the airport internal card of the computer??
Also, I didn't want to bridge TC with my new fios router that I paid 100 dollars for, to get N speed and also paying 10 dollars more a month for fast speed. I heard that bridging slows down everything and then there can be port issues with mail etc.
I think this is mistaken.
Putting the TC in bridge mode plugged into your FIOS will not slow the network.. nor will it cause mail or port issues.. in bridge the TC is just a fancy WAP and switch plus the network hard drive.
If the computer is close it will be faster than the FIOS.
You can run both wireless networks with different names.. so it is clear which is which. But you can also setup roaming so the computers themselves pick which is the best wireless.
I tried extending the wireless net work and tried joining wireless network, but the TC kept crashing and I had to keep resetting the TC. the Apple support person said these, extend wireless network and joint wireless network, are no longer a connection option with the new TC because of the new AC protocol.
Thanks again!
You cannot extend to a non-apple wireless router.
You cannot use join a wireless network because when you do the ethernet ports will be cut off.
But that has not changed.. I don't think Apple support is correct.. there has been no change with the AC model.. it is simply a fact that apple routers do not work in join wireless mode other than as a dumb client. The same applies to AC as to the earlier version.. but I have asked another person to check this.
Join in the express is the only apple router that still allows an ethernet connection.
For now you best use of the TC is bridged to the FIOS. Wireless you can sort out between several options. -
Remote App on iPad connects but drops after about 20 mins. Need to turn off wait about 1 minute, then turn on wifi on iMac before it can reconnect. Need some help please.
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I got my artwork and saved it to my Desktop
Opened up Microsoft Paint and clicked on "File" and "Open" and found it to get it on the screen to resize it
Clicked "resize" and a box for changing it opened up
Checked the box "Pixels" and "Unchecked maintain aspect ratio"
Set Horizontal for 640 and Vertical for 480
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I have the Iphone 4 but before this I had a different phone and had blocked someone from contacting me via calls/texts. Unbeknownst to me, when I got the Iphone 4, that I cannot block Imessages. I have turned off Imessage for the time being but I'm seriously considering changing my phone number. If I change the number with my carrier and turn Imessage back on, what do I have to do to ensure that any previous messages don't come through and any future messages cannot be sent?
All the publicly available information is here:
http://www.apple.com/ios/ios7
There are links on that page to features. -
I switched over from an iPhone to a Samsung Galaxy S3 & I haven't been able to receive any text messages from iPhones. I have no problem sending the text messages but I'm not receivng any from iPhones at all. It has been about a week now that I'm having this problem. I've already tried fixing it myself and I also went into the sprint store, they tried everything as well. My last option was to contact Apple directly. Please help with turning my iMessage completely off so that I can receive my texts.
If you registered your iPhone with Apple using a support profile, try going to https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do and unregistering it. Also, try changing the password associated with the Apple ID that you were using for iMessage.
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I am trying to completely turn off imessage. Although I do turn it off in settings, under messages, and when I attempt to send a message it is asking me to input my apple id and will then proceed to turn imessage back on. Too many of my clients do not have apple products. Someone help!
When I attempt to send a message it is asking me to input my apple id and will then proceed to turn imessage back on.
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My imessage isnt working so I turned off imessage and now its been saying "waiting for activation" and has been for a long while now? Also saying that my apple ID password is inccorrect when its not! Can anyone help me?
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