Messages is one of the original iPhone (now iOS) apps shipped with the iPhone. It also now includes version of Messages shipped with OSX Mountain Lion.
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How to enter two phone numbers as recipients in Messages
I don't see a comma (,) on my iPhone when I'm in message mode.
So, how do I enter two numbers? The comma is needed to separate the numbers.
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iMessages on Mac consistently disappearing
I use iMessages on both my iPhone (6.1.2) and my Retina Macbook (10.8.3). Generally, it works pretty well, but on a somewhat consistent basis messages that I've sent from the Mac will disappear, but ...
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iPhone 4S iMessaging to a iPad and iPhone - compilation of message threads
I have an iPhone 4s.
When I have conversations via iMessage to friends with an iPad a new message thread is created for the conversation, however when I iMessage their phone another message thread is ...
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Message.app not saving font settings
I'm having a bit of a problem here. I set the sender's font to Lucida Grande while testing things and now it won't let me change it back to Helvetica. Every time I restart my Mac relaunch Messages, it ...
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Have Mountain Lion Messages running but hidden from dock?
I use Mountain Lion (10.8.3) Messages exclusively to monitor text messages sent to my cell phone. When I first start my computer or login Messages is hidden (I don't want it in my dock) and if I ...
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How can I get iMessage to verify my phone number?
iMessage won't verify my phone number. When I try to select my number for messages to be sent, it's greyed out. So I receive my iMessages over email which I don't want to do.
I've tried: turning ...
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Extracting Profile Picture from Messages
How can I extract the profile pic from Messages to jpeg to save to my computer?
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“# is not registered with iMessage” error
Let me clearly establish that I am not trying to send a sms to a non-iPhone user. On my OS x Mountain Lion macbook pro I was sending iMessages from the Messages application just fine until all of a ...
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Where are the POSIX message functions (msgsnd, msgrcv, etc) man pages in Mac?
I wanted to view the manual pages for the POSIX standard message functions: msgsnd, msgrcv, etc. All of them are defined in sys/msg.h and code using them works. But the manual pages are nowhere to be ...
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What changes to send my SMS text messages that used to go to email but now appear in iMessage? [closed]
I used to be able to send text messages to my email account and they would appear in my inbox.
[Needs details. What hardware and software is sending to exactly what address? 555-1212@att.net or ...
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Email verificaton not sending when linking Messages to my iPhone iMessage phone number
I am trying to link my iPhone iMessages account (with my phone number, not email address) to Mac Messages. I entered my phone number under the "add email" option. Messages subsequently told me that a ...
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Multiple Apple ID in Messages.app
We use two independent Apple IDs in Messages.app, which I want to keep private. But if I log out of one and log in with the second one within Messages (not the computer itself, but the Apple ID in the ...
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How can I transfer messages from iPhone 4 to iPhone 5?
How can I transfer my messages from an iPhone 4 to the new iPhone 5 that has a different sim card?
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Ensuring replies to group messages go to the whole group rather than just the individual who sent the original
When I send a group text - I get back replies as individual messages all in their individual conversations and no one else can see the reply - this is fine if I want them private.
But I have once ...
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Do not show iMessages on iPhone when using Messages on Macbook
Is it possible to somehow temporarily disable iMessages on iPhone when using Messages app on Macbook, I don't like my iPhone to vibrate and wake up on the table all the time when someone sends me a ...
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Apple Messages randomly removes messages, how to force sync?
I'm flabbergasted at the behavior of Messages (previously known as iChat).
I primarily use it as a client for GTalk's IM service, but I'm getting seriously irritated at having random bits of ...
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Could not login into Facetime and Message 10.8.2
I did a clean install of Mountain Lion 10.8.2 on my MacBook Pro. Now I am facing some problem while loggin into Facetime and Message (could not sign in please check your network connection and try ...
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Messages Video Chat
In Messages Preferences, under Audio/Video it reports my MacBook Air (running OS X Lion) does not support video chat, even though the green FaceTime camera lights up and Skype supports this fine on ...
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How do I completely reset Messages app on Mountain Lion?
I have tried many times to reset Messages app on Mountain Lion by deleting the plist files and cache. Regardless it always stops working again after a few days. Messages show up in the notification ...
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LAN Chat via OS X Server — Will Messages App Suffice?
I'm setting up a network for a small business with two geographic sites, which will be run on OS X Server.
We need a "chat" tool of some sort, and the contents of those chats could possibly contain ...
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How do I setup a group chat through a Jabber service on both OS X and iOS native clients?
I basically want the closest thing to iMessage (native clients for me) but for use with my friends who don't use Apple devices.
I would prefer Google Talk (gtalk) but I can live with Facebook ...
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Memory leak in Message after a sleep
I am acually running Mac OSX 10.8.2 on a 2.5GHz Intel Core i5 @ 4 Go (1600 MHz) DDR3.
I am using Apple Message apps for synchronizing my SMS with my computer. The problem is that everytime my ...
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How do I make Messages.app override a contact's buddy icon?
I have a Jabber account configured in Messages. When other people on the server change their buddy icons, the changes are pushed to my machine. I want to override their icons and force Messages to ...
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Can you send a message across the network?
There used to be the ability, perhaps before OS X, to send messages accross the local network, which displayed a popup on the receivers machine with the message. Is this still possible? Or is there ...
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Messages shows wrong informations in the recent chats list
For some contacts the preview in the recent chats list shows wrong informations. When I click on the preview, I get a totally different chat in the detail view.
Running Mountain Lion 10.8.2
Any ...
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Managed Preferences (MCX) to stop iChat/Messages from waiting on “Files being transferred”?
My users, they are actually good little users, they mostly listen to the instructions to log out at the end of the day / when they're leaving their laptop on the office LAN overnight.
The problem is, ...
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iChat showing contacts from people I've emailed once
In my iChat (now Messages?) buddy list I have a lot of buddies that are not buddies but people I've emailed once. It used to not do this. Is there a way to go back to that previous list?
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Messages app on Mountain Lion stopped logging chats?
I have checked the Messages pref to "Save history when conversations are closed" but conversations aren't saved to the chat window. They were but stopped back in December for some unknown reason.
I ...
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Is there an alternative to Messages?
I'm having the problem of synced iMessages appearing out of order in Messages on my Macbook. I've even had messages sent to wrong people. I can't find any alternatives through Google. Is there a ...
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How to chat with multiple Apple ID's?
I have two Apple ID's to have Messages chat sessions for work and private separated.
Is it possible to use these both at the same time, on my Mac, at home?
Now, I can only login with one Apple ID at ...
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Extracting iPhone text messages
I was just reading online about how to extract iPhone text messages. I've followed the instructions and have found my messages. I used the instructions on this website: http://iphone-sms.com. (It was ...
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Set off alarm when receiving text from a certain number?
Is there a way to set off an alarm or make an audible notification when I receive a text message only from a certain number? I like to keep my notifications on vibrate while I sleep, but my district ...
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Are group messages sent over iMessage when possible?
When I select multiple recipients, both iPhones and other phones, they are all marked with the green color, as if the message will be sent as an SMS.
Will the message be sent over iMessage to those ...
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What prevents the iMessage slider from working on a new iPhone 5?
I'm struggling to enable iMessage on my new iPhone 5.
iMessage works on my iPod, but I go on settings to turn on I message and the button that slides to enable/disable it always slides back to off. ...
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How can I prevent Messages from opening up a new chat window?
When I am working on something else on my iMac, I tend to get a lot of messages via the Messages app. For some reason, when I click once on the messages app window, it does not get focus right away: ...
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Adding my iPhone number to the list of allowed accounts in Messages.app
When I enter my Messages.app settings for my iMessage account, I can see that I can receive iMessages on the two emails that I have entered. Is it possible to add my iPhone number to that list too?
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What happened to my iChat account?
Having recently upgraded my machine to Mountain Lion, I realized that there is no iChat app anymore and that everything ended up into the Messages app. I've been using a @mac.com account specifically ...
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Some clarifications about Messages.app in Mountain Lion
After the update to Mountain Lion I see that I have four accounts in my Messages app (see this question for more information). I am a bit confused about what happened here, namely:
The @mac.com ...
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Recovering access to @me.com account
I've just upgraded to Mountain Lion and I've realized that in my Messages app I have 4 accounts:
A @mac.com account which I remember creating and using with iChat (I haven't used it for anything ...
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“User is unregistered with iMessage” error message
I use an iPod 4th gen and I text my boyfriend on iMessage to his iPhone- either his number or email. Everything was all good until it came up with a red exclamation mark, I deleted the conversations ...
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Location of Message Attachments in iOS 6 Backup?
I'm trying to get all my Messages (not E-Mail) and connected attachments out of a iOS 6 backup. I know there are tools like Wondershare Data Recovery for iTunes but they are not cheap and I'm trying ...
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How to get iMessages to sync across an iPhone, iPad and Mac automatically?
One of the new features of Mountain Lion is the fact that one can sync iMessages across iOS and OSX devices.
I would really like to have a thread that I start on my iPhone automatically sync to my ...
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Can iMessages be deleted permanently or at least kept either on a phone or a computer, but not both?
I would like to stop messages on my Mac from loading up all the messages I have on my iPhone when I plug it in.
Scenario: receive 10 iMessages on my iPhone during the day. I then delete them. So ...
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In Messages 7.0.1 on the Mac, is it possible to delete specific messages in a chat session?
I'd like to delete specific messages from a conversation in Messages 7.0.1 – is this possible? The messages in question originated from iPhones where you can tap "Edit" and select individual messages ...
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iMessage freeze and crash
I am having this problem where I open up iMessage on my iPod Touch 4th Gen iOS 6.0.1 and it freezes after 3 seconds. There is a specific message that is causing this. This app opens up at this ...
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Non-secure Jabber/Google Talk connection in Messages
Every time I enable my Gmail account (Google Talk) in Messages, I get a message asking if I wish to continue with an unsecure Jabber login. This message reappears every time I open Messages on OS X ...
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Muting Messages Audio Alerts
I'm looking for a non-tedious way to make the Messages application in Mountain Lion silent without killing the audio output of other applications. Any ideas? Is this a job for AppleScript or defaults?
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Messages icon not clearing “New message” alert
Often (though not all the time), after receiving a new message the little number badge (alerting me of the number of unread messages) doesn't clear after I open and read the message. The only way I ...
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Messages incorrect password or username
The messages app is giving me an error message that says that my yahoo password or login ID is incorrect. I'm sure i'm entering the right login ID and password. Any solutions?
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How can you send the same text to multiple people without it being a group message?
Suppose that I want to send "Happy Thanksgiving!" to 35 different people, but I do not want it to be treated as a group message. How can this be accomplished on the iPhone 4S (with or without ...
