SMS or MMS text messages

A Short Message Service (SMS) lets you send and receive short text messages. A Multimedia Message Service (MMS) lets you send and receive text messages with graphics, sound clips, videos, and other media. If you set up text message forwarding on your iPhone, you can send and receive SMS and MMS text messages on your Mac.

To learn more about the differences among message types, see About iMessage and SMS/MMS.