Selecting Phone Number For Text From Mac
Apr 12, 2013 Texting to a list of numbers (iPhone 4) Discussion in 'iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting' started by Kak-en-Betaal, Sep 23, 2010. If your phone number is unchecked and you can't select it, or you have some other issue, follow these steps: On your Mac: In Messages, choose Messages > Preferences, then click Accounts and select your iMessage account. When I send a text from my Mac, the receiver gets a message from my apple ID not my phone number. I've tried to go the Messages and the Message Preferences but my Message Bar doesn't even have a Preferences tab.
Your iPhone uses the Messages app to send messages to other devices. However, it works a bit differently depending on what device the person you are messaging is using. When you send a Message, the iPhone looks on Apple servers to see if the recipient owns an Apple Device.
Remember when you had to register your device with an Apple ID? This was putting your 'email' in the Apple server. It also put your telephone number in the Apple server. If the server finds your recipient in the Apple servers, it automatcially sends a message via the Apple network, therefore not using the SMS network, which might incur charges (depending on your SMS or text message limits). If the Apple server does not find your recipient, then it sends the message via SMS or text messaging, over the carriers system. So, if you send a message to a friend who has an Android phone, the Apple server won't find that device in its database, and will then send the message via regular text messaging service, so the Android phone can receive it.
How can i resize pictures for printing mac. This systems allows you to message anyone, and Apple simply figures out the best way to send the message, whether its via Apple's system, which does not incur SMS fees, or via the carrier's system, which might incur fees. 
(most users in the USA have unlimited text messaging plans these days, so this is less than a concern. If you have a limit of 100 messages, you can appreciate how this is a good thing.) OK, now to your question: your email: Messages is NOT sending a message via email.