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Messaging grandchildren

Kim_kim · 2019-10-06 11:11:20

I bought both my grandchildren iPads. My daughter has them linked to her apple account as they are 8 & 5. I’d like to be able to message my grandson & he reply, like whatspps each other. He doesn’t have a phone number so doesn’t have whatapp, my daughter doesn’t want him to have a phone either. Obviously she’s worried…

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Sparx Posts: 909 Forumite

13 October 2019 at 10:15PM

They can both have their own free Gmail / iCloud accounts created and used as their Apple ID on the iPads.

Then you can send iMessages to their 'email address' and it'll work perfectly normal like a mobile number does.

I set this up the same way for my wife's 2 young siblings who are a little older than your grandkids, works perfectly.

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