Already removed my phone number from my account. Already removed me from the contacts and the iPhone automatically put my new contact into iMessage state. No, I'm not receiving texts. Hoping for a response that isn't in one of the hundreds of other threads. I already did the following:
1. Went to my devices and removed the phone number from iMessage AND FaceTime.
2. Removed the iPhone from devices in my iTunes account.
3. Turned iMessage off on the phone, even though it's not paired with the phone #
4. Reset the phone to factory
5. Removed my contact from an iPhone and sent a text. Ready for the fun? Once it saw the number, it immediately assigned outbound messages to iMessage.
I had several iPhones on my personal account. I removed two. I still have 2 more. What's funny is that the other phone number that was using iMessage needed nothing special done. I didn't touch the iPhone and the number automatically went SMS on other iPhones when it was upgraded/changed to a Samsung phone. The point might become moot if I upgrade the whole family to Samsung and leave iPhone completely, but until then, my own wife and kids can't text me unless they turn off iMessage in their phones.
If there are any other suggestions, please give them to me. Thanks.
Message was edited by: jimwoodard - changed wording to clarify.