Register Your Cell Phone with AOL Mobile

When you register your phone with AOL® Mobile, you can:

- Find out what exciting AOL® products are available on your phone, including: Mobile AIM^TM – send and receive IMs from your phone.

- Manage settings for your phone, like forwarding IMs to your phone and mobile privacy settings.

- Mobile AIM allows people you choose to see you as mobile and send IMs to your phone when you are offline (IM to Mobile).

- Get customized carrier information tailored to you.

- Set up Reminders for upcoming events or tasks on your AOL Calender (available when you log in to check your AOL Mail) and manage your mobile settings to turn reminders for upcoming events on or off. For example, you may have a task set up for a "Doctor's Appointment." You can set your reminder to be sent to your cell phone.

- Get Alerts sent to your phone. Choose from 15 categories such as Sports, Weather, Mail, Money & Finance, News and more. For example, you can set up alerts to get live scores for your favorite Sports teams, get Stock quotes, or even set up alerts to know when someone specific has sent mail to your AOL account.

- Choose when you want to receive Alerts and Reminders (Quiet Hours).

- Opt in to receive a monthly AOL Mobile newsletter highlighting AOL products like Entertainment, News, Sports, Moviefone® -- all available on your phone.

Coming soon:

- Get customized information about AOL products available for your phone.

Before you're ready to register your phone, please have the following handy:

1. Your cell phone

2. Your cell phone make, manufacturer and model number (usually located on the back of your cell phone and can be viewed by removing the battery)

3. An AOL screen name. Don't have an AOL screen name? Create a free screen name today.

Follow these four simple steps to register your phone:
Note: You can register your phone on our Register My Mobile Phone page.

Step 1: Sign in using your AOL screen name and password

Step 2: Enter your carrier and phone number

Step 3: Click on "Start"

You will receive a text message with a 4-digit code

Step 4: Enter the 4-digit code on your computer and click on "Finish"

Your phone is registered! Now you can enter specific details about your phone make and model in the Register My Phone page.You can also choose to opt-in to receive a monthly AOL Mobile newsletter (located at the bottom of My Mobile Manage Settings).

Note: When you register your phone, you will not automatically receive text messages on your phone from AOL because you control the mobile settings area (ie. IM Forwarding and IM to Mobile). In addition, you can choose to turn these features on and off. You may still receive messages to your phone from people who know your number so if you would like to block IMs from AOL, visit our Block IMs page or go to AOL Help to cancel alerts.

Your wireless carrier may charge you for receiving text messages.