How To Register A Gmail Account With Imessage

Set up your profile and preferences just the way you like.

How to register a gmail account with imessage. For example you cannot send an imessage to an android phone. 3 type in the email address you want to use for imessage and tap on the return key on the keyboard. Even though you can access the icloud on non apple devices like a windows pc or an android phone you need an apple device or itunes to. And imessage can only be sent to another iphone ipad ipod touch or mac. One of the key differences between iphone and android is android devices can t use imessage.

You can however send a regular text message. This does not mean that you cannot send messages from your mac or ipad. Tap the home button to close settings. Let s see how to do that. To change the e mail account that imessage uses tap the send receive button tap add another email and then follow the directions to add another e mail account.

A single username and password gets you into everything google gmail chrome youtube google maps. Create icloud account using gmail. Then choose under the options which say home which have a drop down list for skype jabber etc add your gmail address and choose jabber like this. If you want to include a subject field in messages tap the on off button for the show subject field option. As it is not mandatory to get an icloud email address for using imessage you can use your gmail address to create an icloud account.

On the next screen type your new email address and tap on next. 1 open the settings app and navigate to settings general messages send receive. Switch between devices and pick up wherever you left off. Dont forget to make yourself available using the bottom left toolbar on imessage app to put yourself online with jabber maybe google talk might also work.