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> iPad with cellular does not really show you SMS's that's not from the carrier of the sim card.

Does iPad support SMS? The cellular line is usually only for data, https://www.howtogeek.com/710767/how-to-send-sms-text-messag...

  iPads can't send SMS text messages through Apple's Messages app. Even if you have an iPad with a cellular data plan for mobile internet on the go, you still can't send SMS text messages.

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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:

  With Continuity, you can send and receive SMS/MMS messages on iPad using the cellular connection on your iPhone.

> 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

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