To provide a communication device capable of maintaining receiving data in a memory when the receiving data cannot be recorded due to a fault of a recording unit such as no recording sheet, a recording sheet jam, no toner, no ink or the like when the apparatus facsimile receives retrieving another image communicating apparatus by Bluetooth, and shortening a time until the data is arrived at a receiver when the data is transferred to the image communication device which responds.

The communication device comprises a means for registering a transfer destination by the Bluetooth. When the device cannot receive the receiving image due to the fault of the recording unit such as no recording sheet, the recording sheet jam, no toner, no ink or the like, the device once stores the receiving data in the memory, and transfers the data only to the previously registered destination.