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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP with a dumb question: can someone join a group text from an iPad using an email and not a phone number?[/quote]

Yes, in 4th and 5th grade this was how my daughter texted and FaceTimed her friends. We just used the iCloud email. She has a phone going into 6th now but she still uses both the iPad and phone interchangeably as it’s logged into the same account on the phone as well. [/quote]

OP and thank you! I don’t want to give in on the phone but I can see a situation where we set up the family ipad with an Apple ID that belongs just to DD and keep it in the kitchen like an old-fashioned family desktop computer/landline. [/quote]

Then do that. It seems like the perfect solution. My kids got phones in 5th grade, only because we got new phones and they got our old ones.  We had them locked down for wifi only, limited apps, they didn’t leave the house and they could only use them in common areas for certain times of the day. An iPad would have had a lot more options.  We slowly gave them more as they got older.

Now they are teens with unlimited access. Our oldest is about to be 18.   [/quote]

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