Once iMessage is enabled for your Apple ID, you can turn on Name and Photo sharing.Confirm on the pop-up that you want to use your Apple ID and make sure it is the same one that is signed into the device in the Settings app.If you don’t enable Apple ID for iMessage though, you won’t be able to turn on name and photo sharing. On Macs, you can’t use a phone number which is why the Apple ID is necessary. You do not necessarily have to use your Apple ID for it. On an iPhone, you can send and receive messages on your phone number. When prompted to, sign into iCloud with the same Apple ID that you use for iMessage.At the very top, you will see the Apple ID that your device uses.You can use it without every adding an account to iCloud but doing so means you won’t be able to use some features, one of which is the iMessage profile feature. Sign in to iCloudĪn iOS device doesn’t have to be signed into iCloud. This error generally tells you that ‘Sharing Name and Photo is not available because iCloud and iMessage accounts are different or are not signed in’. In some cases, when you try to enable the ‘Share name and photo’ feature, you get a message ‘Sharing name and photo not available’.
You can use a regular photo instead of an Animoji avatar. You can set it up even if you do not have a device that supports Animoji. Naturally, it works best between Apple devices.
It’s a neat way to choose how you appear as a contact, and what information you share. When you enable this profile, the image or Animoji that you’ve created is sent to whoever you’re messaging. IOS 13 has a feature that allows users to create a profile for Messages.