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 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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How to copy all messages of a conversation in one folder?
For archiving purposes, I would like to copy/move all messages of a conversation in one folder, including sent messages and messages stored in different folders. I tried several things, like "Cmd+A" ...
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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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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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Is there anyway to style Messages.app's message view?
Messages.app is a one of my favorite applications now-a-days because it allows me to reach my friends portable devices and computers with great ease and speed. But it didn't really hit the bar with ...
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Why is the number of unread messages in Messages negative?
Occasionally, and with no apparent correlation with what is going on on other devices where I have Messages enabled, I get a negative count for my unread messages in Messages on OS X:
What could be ...
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Text Stuck in Message Field
Using an iPhone 4 and within Messages, a previously sent message text is stuck within the text box!
Whenever I open a new message window, the text box shows with the old message text pre-populated ...
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Why does my message app not recognize my contacts?
Ok, so this summer I was in Korea. I used a korean SIM card in my iPhone 4S while I was there. I ended up losing my iPhone before I came back to the US.
I recently purchased an iPhone 5 and backed ...
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How to “merge” my Messages transcripts in OSX?
EDIT: Perhaps a better way to say all of the below, is this: Is there a way to restore my Message (iChat) history onto my iMac, from my iCloud backup? All of my iDevices have the complete chat ...
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Messages and AIM confusion
My aim screen name is my email address. Lets call it foo@bar.com. It's the same email address that I have on my apple account for I messages. Occasionally - 3-4 times a week - a colegue will message ...
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How to hide preview of text contents from Messages.app notifications in Mountain lion?
In Mountain Lion's Notification Centre, I don't like having a notification pop up with the contents of an iMessage text I just got, but I do want to have notifications about it happening.
Is there a ...
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How to reset Messages application settings in Mountain Lion?
I upgraded from Lion to Mountain Lion and, when I started the Messages app for the first time, it imported the iCloud account, a Google Talk account and to old iChat accounts I used in the past.
I ...
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Can imagent in OS X Mountain Lion be made to consume fewer resources?
imagent is constantly consuming CPU cycles and a couple of GBs of "real memory" on my wife's MacBook Air since upgrading to OS X Mountain Lion. I believe this is part of the Messages app.
Is there ...
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Messages.app won't add new account
I recently decided I'd try to use Messages.app instead of Adium as my all-in-one chat app, and was immediately stymied by the + button in the Accounts pane not working.
I click the button, it darkens ...
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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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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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How can I view iDeleted Messages sent from my apple id?
How can I view deleted iMessages that have been sent or received by my apple id?
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How to get Messages to connect to Facebook chat?
I have the very same configuration for messages on two different Macs (home and work). At home I have no problem in connecting to the Facebook chat via the jabber protocol, while at work it simply ...
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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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How can I add missing avatar/profile pictures in Messages?
In the new Messages application introduced with Mountain Lion, I cannot see my own avatar.
This is happening even though my Messages.app email is linked with my contact in Contacts.app.
No Avatar ...
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How can I log in to ICQ using iChat?
It used to be possible to log in to ICQ accounts with iChat by using your ICQ login info as an AIM account. However, that no longer seems to work.
Is there any way to use ICQ with either iChat or the ...
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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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“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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How to stop messages from opening when I touch the icon
When I only have one unread message (or all from the same person), it opens that thread when I open the Messages app. I don't want the thread to open automatically when I touch the message icon, and ...
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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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iPhone text messages
I do not want my new iPhone to open text messages automatically when I tap the icon because of this recent scam thing with "you've won a prize". I've gotten that message 3 times so far, and I have to ...
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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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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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How to use my phone number on my Macbook's Messages?
iMessage is very confusing as my email and phone number keeps receiving different messages at random occasions rather than having all messages sent to both. This is very apparent in group messages.
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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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Mountain Lion Messages Facebook Jabber connection problem
This is a very weird problem I'm having with my Messages app on Mountain Lion. I have two accounts: a Google Talk and a Jabber account that is linked to my Facebook chat. Whenever I open my Messages ...
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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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Backup online iMessage repository
Is there a way to download/export iMessage history somewhere? If I deleted messages on a local device, is it also removed online on iCloud?
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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 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 ...
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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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How to keep Messages chats sorted manually
It is possible to keep opened chats in Messages in order i sort it manually? Because it always resorts it chronologically, so it's changing all the time and it's kind of confusig to me.
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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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How can I force Mountain Lion's Messages app to refresh a conversation?
Sometimes when an iMessage comes in and I switch to the Messages app, the conversation doesn't contain the new message.
I know the message was received because an alert banner popped up with the ...
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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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Messages AIM account regularly stops working
I have set up iChat with different accounts: Facebook Jabber, Google Jabber, iCloud and an AIM account coming from MobileMe.
My AIM account regularly stops working where Messages will indefinitely ...
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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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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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Why do my iMessages get sent with someone else's information?
I have a new iPad and upgraded to iOS 6.
When I send an iMessage, it looks like I sent it from another person's phone. The picture is not my profile picture.
Why might this be?
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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 ...
