Even so, there are workarounds if you want to disable iMessage and even remove it from your iPad’s Home Screen.

Still, Apple doesn’t want you to delete the Messages app. After all, the iPad was meant to be a mini-Mac, not a bigger iPhone. Nonetheless, that seems fine for the iPhone but not so much the iPad. So, it’s like rendering the device half-useless if you remove one of them. The call and text messaging features are the bread and butter of any mobile device. Unfortunately, when Apple began making it possible to delete some of its built-in apps, Messages was not among them. Can You Remove Messages, or iMessage, from iPad? Read along as I discuss how to remove iMessage from your iPad, along with some other important way to at least disable the app. However, useful as it may seem, there may be times when you would want to remove it from your device. It works across your Apple devices, including the iPhone, iPad, and Mac. If you do not see texts sync, make sure you're using Apple's pre-installed Messages app on both devices.Apple’s iMessage app has evolved from a simple messaging app to a more advanced one with add-on apps that you can download from the App Store. There are many alternative text message apps available on the iPhone that you could be using. You're not using Messages on both devices: The Messages app can only sync texts between Mac and iPhone if you're using the same app on both devices.Match the settings on iPhone ( Settings > Messages > Send & Receive) and Mac (Messages > Messages > Preferences > You can be reached for messages at) and see if that fixes the problem. If they're not, that could explain why messages are only showing up on one device. Not all phone numbers and email addresses are enabled: Since you can get iMessages delivered to both your phone number and email addresses, you have to make sure all of your numbers and addresses are set up on your Mac and iPhone.

Make sure to sign in to the same Apple on iPhone ( Settings > ) and Mac (Messages > Messages > Preferences > Apple ID). You're signed into the wrong Apple ID: If you signed in with different Apple IDs on your Mac and iPhone, all of your messages might not sync between the devices.Only iMessages can sync to a Mac (though the iPhone supports both kinds of text). You can tell a standard SMS because of its green bubble, whereas iMessages have blue bubbles. iMessage is an Apple technology that only works on Apple devices. The texts are SMS, not iMessage: iMessages are not the traditional, standard text messages that any phone can send.

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