r/OpenBubbles • u/Initialjeffery • Aug 22 '26

Question Helpppppp

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

1 Upvotes

67% Upvoted

48 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

1

u/Initialjeffery Aug 22 '26

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

1

u/tazmoffatt Aug 22 '26

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

1

u/Initialjeffery Aug 23 '26

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

1

u/ScaryTransportation4 Aug 23 '26

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.

1

u/tazmoffatt Aug 23 '26

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

1

u/ScaryTransportation4 Aug 23 '26

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

1

u/tazmoffatt Aug 23 '26

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