Friends Kingdom: Re: [iPad] Texting from an iPad to an Android

Terry, when I try to text to a non-Mac device from my iPad, the phone number of the non-Mac device turns red, and the send button is greyed out.

On Oct 21, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Terry Pogue tpogue@comcast.net [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I can text my non mac friends from my iPad but the text is not free. It's green instead of blue.

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On Oct 21, 2015, at 6:59 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

I think it only works if you have an iPhone or cellular iPad.
Pat

Pat, my iPad does have a cellular plan. Just seems so weird to me that it would be this difficult to text between an iPad and an Android.

It's not difficult on a cel plan iPad. Only on a wifi iPad.
Alice

My Verizon cellular iPad is incapable of sending SMS text messages in the absence of an iPhone to send them through.

I don't have any trouble texting from my iPad.
Terry

1. What carrier?
2. SMS text messages or iMessages?
3. Do you have an iPhone as well?

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