Unofficial archive. This is a read-only, community-run archive of the Apple Support Community. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by Apple Inc.
BobAZ259
User level: Level 1 (5 points)

Photos not sending to one person and get MMS message

Trying to send a picture from my iPad to my wife’s cell phone and I now get MMS messages not enabled. However I can send them from my iPhone and they go thru fine. I can send to all my other contacts and they send fine. Checked the iPhone settings and all seem ok, I believe it happened after the recent update to IOS 27 and it’s just to her from my iPad and no one else. Any ideas?

Posted on Sep 17, 2026 11:20 AM

4 replies

IdrisSeabright
User level: Level 10 (201,695 points)

Sep 17, 2026 11:29 AM in response to BobAZ259

What kind of phone does your wife have? If she has an iPhone, is she logged into iMessage?


It sounds as if Text Message Forwarding may have gotten confused during the update. Turn it off and back on again on your iPhone in Settings>Apps>Messages>Text Message Forwarding.

IdrisSeabright
User level: Level 10 (201,695 points)

Sep 18, 2026 8:03 AM in response to BobAZ259

Are you by any chance sharing an Apple Account?

BobAZ259 Author
User level: Level 1 (5 points)

Sep 17, 2026 2:14 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Her’s is an iPhone as well, did the turn of and on on both hers and mine, photo from my phone to hers works fine, from her phone to me works, it’s from my iPad to her phone/ipad gets the MMS message, plain text is fine. Makes no sense…..

BobAZ259 Author
User level: Level 1 (5 points)

Sep 18, 2026 8:15 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

No and today I noticed it happening with a few of my other contacts, but only if I try from the iPad, wondering if IOS27 caused some of this?

Originally posted at discussions.apple.com/thread/256359120