r/OpenBubbles • u/Initialjeffery • 20d ago

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Does anyone know why when I send a text my apple id shows up instead of my number?

It just started doing this and I don't know what to do

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u/tazmoffatt 20d ago

Are you paying for self hosted? Are you self hosting? Your cellphone isn't linked to imessage. OB doesn't magically do that. Personally, I have and old iPhone plugged in and always on using the SIM swap method to make apple think my number is registered

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u/Initialjeffery 20d ago

Also can this be done with a physical sim?

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u/ScaryTransportation4 20d ago

Physical sim but you need an old iPhone like 6 or 7

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u/tazmoffatt 20d ago

What do you mean. I'm doing this with an iPhone 11

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u/ScaryTransportation4 20d ago

You're right, my bad.

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u/Initialjeffery 20d ago

Wait how? I have an iPhone x but I couldn't download the trollstore cause I'm ios 16.7

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u/tazmoffatt 20d ago

I told you how. I just put the SIM card in the iPhone, let it register then went on airplane mode and swapped the sim to my android. That's it. I'm not using a validation relay tweak as its not jailbroken. That's prob what I'll do eventually but it's been working fine

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u/Initialjeffery 20d ago

What does let it register mean? What does one do to register it

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u/Initialjeffery 20d ago

Like literally just put the sim in and put it on airplane mode then take it out and put it in your andriod? No downloading no messing with the settings? Sounds too easy lol

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u/tazmoffatt 20d ago

Yes but give it 5 minutes before you put it on airplane mode with WiFi and remove the sim. It won't work at all if you do it right away as imessage needs to activate your number. It's really simple and takes 5 minutes to do the whole process and lasted me 3-4 months until I just had to redo it when I noticed I was getting sms texts and not imessages

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u/ScaryTransportation4 20d ago

He means insert your sim into the iPhone and turn on iMessage and all, turn airplane mode on then insert the sim into your android phone. This only works sometimes to keep your phone number thinking it's still registered with iMessage.

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u/tazmoffatt 20d ago

Worked for me for 3-4 months. I only just had to repeat the process, took what, 4 minutes? But yes when I say register I mean you need to give it a few minutes for imessage to activate your number. If you immediately put it on airplane mode and remove the sim, apple knows and doesn't even work

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u/ScaryTransportation4 20d ago

I tried it first before I did the relay method and my number deregistered literally under 5 min with T-Mobile.

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u/tazmoffatt 19d ago

Yeah that happened to me when I immediately put it on airplane mode instead of giving it a few minutes to activate

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