Why am I getting text Messages from an email address?
It’s called spam… it’s coming to you as an SMS message through your cellular carrier’s email to text gateway. If you do not need to receive SMS messages from email accounts (some automated alerting systems may use this method), then contact your carrier and ask them to disable that at their gateway.
Can you get a text from an email address?
Luckily, there’s a way to text people for free: Email. Texts are basically just email messages (albeit on a different network–texts are sent via a wireless carrier’s network, while emails are sent via data), and so it’s easy to send and receive text messages using your email address.
Why do I get text messages from email instead of phone number?
If your friends and family are telling you that your text messages are coming from your email address instead of your phone number, the culprit is likely in your iPhone settings. Especially after transitioning to a new iPhone, the “send from” address for iMessages gets set as your Apple ID email account instead of your number.
How to make iMessage send from phone instead of email?
On Mac, go to Messages, then Preferences, followed by Accounts and then iMessage. Unmark all the email addresses and leave the phone number only. Go to Settings, then Messages, followed by Send & receive. Select Start New Conversation From and choose the phone number instead of the email address.
Can a message be sent with only email address?
The Messages app displays the email address of the recipient if it’s an Apple ID. The message can be sent as an iMessage. In your case, its possible that the contact has only email address available and it’s an Apple ID registered with Messages.
Why does iMessage send to email not phone number?
Because this glitch occurs (seemingly at random) for more than one carrier, it seem likely that there is an intermittent bug in Apple’s servers. 3. It’s not an iMessage to SMS issue. It happens with iMessage to iPhone from one user to one other–and the sending phone recognizes the receiving number as an iPhone.