Comment by fishywang
2 years ago
Apple's own user guide (https://web.archive.org/web/20201223140550/https://support.a...) suggests otherwise:
>In the Messages app , you can send text messages as SMS/MMS messages through your cellular service, or ...
Also my own experience is that it at least can receive SMS text messages, just it won't show you if it's not from your carrier (if it's from your carrier, it shows you via a popup window or something, can't really remember as that was several years ago).
No direct experience to share, but that sentence may be referencing Continuity via iCloud, which is optional:
> if it's from your carrier, it shows you via a popup window
If it's not shown in Apple's Messages app, maybe it was a carrier-specific app?
iPad can neither send nor receive sms. The only way it can is through a nearby iPhone, or iMessage