It's easy to enable iMessage on an iPhone to send messages over cellular data or Wi-Fi with other iPhones, or over Wi-Fi with iPads or Mac computers.

How to enable iMessage on your iPhone if it's turned off The bottom line is that iMessage is generally better than SMS, and your iPhone will use it whenever possible — you don't have to do ...

Here's how to enable iMessage on your iPhone: Open the Settings app. Scroll down and tap Messages. Turn on the toggle next to iMessage. Tap Send & Receive.

Here's how to check if your carrier supports the messaging protocol, how to enable it and when Apple could bring end-to-end ...

The best remaining methods to enable iMessage on non-Apple devices are AirMessage and BlueBubbles, but they are inconvenient and frustrating to set up.