While I’m down in Nags Head communing with the ocean I made sure to brin an extra laptop with me just incase ML was released… Good thing I did. One of the awaited features in 10.8 was the ability to coordinate iMessages between iPhone, iPad, and OS X computer. I was sitting here playing with it with my cousin and we couldn’t get it to work as described. Messages would work as it did before the update, but the laptops would not get messages sent to a phone number account and a conversation started on one device wouldn’t be reflected on the other devices to be continued anywhere your credentials are available. We searched around and found several suggestions, but eventually this thread on the Apple discussion boards got us up and running:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4140940?start=0&tstart=0
To keep you from having to go to the link, here are the steps:
- Deactivate imessage on your Messages app on Mac… Quit the app
- Turn off imessage on your iDevice (phone)
- Soft reset phone *home button and power button*
- Turn imessage back on on iphone
- Launch messages on mac
- Turn imessage back on in messages (activate)
Once this was all done, message threads cross-populated and messages sent to either an Apple ID or to the phone number of the recipient were received on all devices.
The real question is, does Apple really expect non-technical users to hunt down this information on their help forums and complete this process? I have a feeling the Genius Bar will be busy over the next month or so getting this up and running properly
