Communicate

Fix The iMessage iPhone-To-Android Bug

If you switched from the iPhone to an Android phone, you may have noticed a bug where people who previously were sending you iMessages can’t anymore. There’s a quick solution to this bug, however, so you can un-trap your messages.


October 15, 2011
Fix

Using iMessage On Multiple Devices

My significant other and I share and iTunes account (don’t tell!), so after I updated my iPad and her iPhone, she started receiving all my iMessages. Whoops! Turns out, though, it’s easy to associate different identities to different devices in iMessages, even if they share the same Apple ID — handy if you share an account with someone, have multiple iDevices of your own and want to set up separate buckets or just want to change the address you send or receive message from (your “Caller ID”). Here’s how.