Stay in Touch - iConnected: Use AirPlay, iCloud, Apps, and More to Bring Your Apple Devices Together - page 128

book.com e-mail address by default, that e-mail address is added to your iCloud contacts when you
sync contacts with Facebook. Many users don't use those @facebook.com e-mail accounts, but be-
cause they got added to iCloud, those e-mail addresses started being used in Mail, often unintention-
ally. The result: E-mails that no one saw. To make sure that your friends don't get your @face-
book.com e-mail address when they sync to Facebook on their iOS devices, go to your Facebook ac-
count on the web and hide your @facebook.com e-mail address in the Contact Info screen. (Go to the
Contact Info section of your Facebook profile, click the Edit button, and set the privacy setting for
your @facebook.com e-mail address to Only Me while making your main e-mail address visible to
friends or the public. Ask your Facebook friends to do the same in their accounts.
Sync Contacts and Calendars with Android
You can also access your iCloud e-mail account from an Android device. When configuring
a new e-mail account, add the @me.com version of your address — not the @icloud.com ver-
sion — as the e-mail address. The incoming server is mail.me.com, and SSL should be on. The
outgoing server is smtp.me.com, TLS should be enabled, and you need to require sign-in using
your @me.com address as the username and your standard iCloud password for the password.
And if you want to sync your iCloud contacts with Android, get the $4 SmoothSync for Contacts
Android app; likewise, to sync your iCloud calendar with Android, get the $4 SmoothSync for
Calendar Android app.
Text and Video-Chat
Your mobile phone carrier provides SMS texting service for your iPhone, either for a monthly fee
or a per-message charge. iCloud provides its own messaging service called iMessage that costs you
nothing. And iMessage works on Macs, iPod Touches, and iPads, too — not just iPhones. And your
iMessage conversations are available on all your devices, so you can start a conversation on an
iPhone but continue it later in your iPad, for example. The only limitation is that it works just with
other iCloud users who've enabled iMessage on their devices.
iCloud also lets you do video chats among iOS devices and Macs via the FaceTime app. (To video-
chat with Windows users, you'll need to use the Skype app instead.)
Enable iMessage
On an iPhone, the Messages app handles both SMS and iMessage conversations (SMS messages
have a green background, whereas iMessage ones have a blue bacground.) Other iOS devices's Mes-
sages apps handle just iMessage conversations, while Macs' Message app handles iMessage and a
variety of other instant-messaging services such as AOL Instant Messenger (AIM), Google Talk, Jab-
ber, and Yahoo. Figure 6-3 shows an iMessage conversation on the iPad.