How To Register A Name On Imessage

Before you can start using imessage you ll need to set it up.

How to register a name on imessage. When you go to settings messages send receive and if you see use your apple id for imessage select it. It will ask you to sign in with your appleid. If you haven t used messages before on this mac you will be prompted to enter or create your apple id. Go to settings messages and make sure that imessage is on. Ensure that you sign in with the same apple id on your other devices e g your mac.

Make sure that your mac and ios devices are running the latest version of the ios or macos software. You might need to wait a moment for it to activate. Without a device with ios5 you are not able to register an imessage caller id and can not participate in the imessage exchange. When imessage others select their imessage call id be it iphone number or email accout depends how their imessage caller id are registered from your contact. It will also ask you to set up the phone numbers and email addresses you wish to be linked to your imessage account.

Set up your phone number. Tap it and enter a name for the group. That is how you do it. If you see use your apple id for imessage tap it and sign in with the same apple id that you use on your mac ipad and ipod touch. Instead of just a phone number however it can use your email address and it only works with other ipads iphones and macs.

Input your apple username and password or click on create apple id to create a new account. You can name an imessage group. On your iphone devices make sure your iphone is well connected to the internet. Tap send receive. Tap the info button and on the details screen you will see a name field.

It is located in the menu bar at the top of the app. The name will be updated and you will see a notification within the thread telling you that the group s name has been changed. Open the taps settings messages on your iphone to tap the button next to imessage to turn imessage on. Imessage lets you send and receive sms like text messages and mms style multimedia messages just like a phone through your icloud account. To do so open the group thread and tap the little arrow under the number of people.