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    Aug 19, 2022 4 minutes
    Glenn Fleishman reports

    HOW TO RECEIVE TEXTS TO A PHONE NUMBER ACROSS ALL YOUR APPLE DEVICES

    The oldest parts of the cellular phone system are figuratively held together with chicken wire and chewing gum, and wireless carriers have little motivation to change it because it works and nets them billions upon billions of dollars. Apple created iMessage for an improved (and secured) messaging ecosystem and married it on the iPhone with ‘traditional’ SMS (text) and MMS (multimedia) cellular messaging systems.

    On your iPhone, you can send and receive cellular texts and iMessages. Apple extended the iPhone’s phone network capability to your other iCloud-linked

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