How to Sign Out of Apple Messages

This wikiHow teaches you how to sign out of iMessage so that you will only receive SMS texts through the Messages app. Open your device's Settings. It is an app with three grey gears located on the home screen.

Method 1 of 2:

iPhone or iPad

  1. Picture 1 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Open your device's Settings. It is an app with three grey gears located on the home screen.
    1. Sometimes, Settings may be located within the Utilities folder on the home screen.
  2. Picture 2 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Scroll down and tap Messages. It is located in the fifth group of menu options.
  3. Picture 3 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Scroll down and tap Send & Receive. It is in the fourth group of menu options.
  4. Picture 4 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Tap Apple ID (your email).
  5. Picture 5 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Tap Sign Out. This will disable the app's ability to send and receive messages, while the ability to send and receive SMS messages (on iPhones) will remain.
Method 2 of 2:

Mac

  1. Picture 6 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Open Messages. It looks like a blue icon with a white ellipses in a thought bubble located on the dock or desktop.
  2. Picture 7 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Click Messages in the top left corner of the screen.
  3. Picture 8 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Click Preferences.
  4. Picture 9 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Click the Accounts tab.
  5. Picture 10 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Select your iMessages account if it is not highlighted in blue. The iMessages account will be listed with other accounts on the left side of the menu.
  6. Picture 11 of How to Sign Out of Apple Messages
    Click Sign Out. This will disable the app's ability to send and receive messages.
    1. You will have to click Sign Out again if prompted to confirm.
Update 04 March 2020
messagesclicktapsend

You should read it

Maybe you are interested

Category

System

Mac OS X

Hardware

Game

Tech info

Technology

Science

Life

Application

Electric

Program

Mobile