Send and receive text messages (SMS & MMS)

To send and receive some photo, video, and group messages, when you activate your service, update your iPhone settings.

Turn cellular data on

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Cellular. 
  3. Make sure Cellular Data is turned on.

Turn on data roaming

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Cellular and then Cellular Data Options.
  3. Make sure Data Roaming is turned on.

Configure MMS settings

  1. On your iPhone or iPad, open the Settings app.
  2. Tap Cellular and then Cellular Data Network.
  3. In the Personal hotspot APN field, enter h2g2-t

  4. In each of the other 3 APN fields (Cellular data, LTE Setup and MMS), enter h2g2

  5. In the MMSC field, enter http://m.fi.goog/mms/wapenc

  6. In the MMS Max Message size field, enter 23456789
  7. Restart the iPhone.

View a tutorial on how to configure MMS settings.

Tip: You can't use SMS delivery reports with Google Fi.

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