Aug 7, 2015 - If you're facing the same problem, here's how you send SMS texts from OS X. PowerPic is the phone charger/picture frame you don't really need (but. You'll see a six-digit code pop up in Messages on your Mac. An alert window will appear marked Text Message Forwarding will show up on the iPhone.

My Mac Mini, running El Capitan, and my iPhone 6 Plus are both on the same WiFi network, however when I select the Mac Mini in the Text Message Forwarding settings, it does not send a code to my Mac Mini. If Messages is not running on my Mac Mini, then selecting the Mac Mini in the Text Message Forwarding settings on my iPhone will start the program, but no code. I have signed out and back in to iCloud on both devices, and I have rebooted both devices. Nothing seems to work. Internet explorer 10 for mac 2017.

In fact, everything was working as it should until around the time I updated to El Capitan. How can I troubleshoot SMS handoff from a cell phone to OS X?