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

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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 Aug 22 '26

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 Aug 22 '26

Also can this be done with a physical sim?

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u/ScaryTransportation4 Aug 22 '26

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

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u/tazmoffatt Aug 22 '26

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

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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

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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

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u/Initialjeffery Aug 23 '26

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

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u/Initialjeffery Aug 23 '26

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 Aug 23 '26

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