when I text myself it’s green. My previous iPhone 12 pro when I text myself was blue. I got used to seeing that. I looked at my message settings and iMessage is on. Send and receive is on and linked to my phone number, my send as sms is turned on. iMessages works when sending iMessage to friends and family bt just when I text myself it’s a sms And is green How do I fix this. Shouldn’t it be blue?
iPhone 14 Pro Max
Kingjay420 wrote:
my send as sms is turned on.
Please turn this off.
Since your device is not connected to the internet it is using the above option (Send as SMS) to send you an SMS and not iMessage.
That is why it is Green and not Blue.
Once you turn Off the Send as SMS then either you will receive iMessage or you will see Undelivered!
Kingjay420 wrote:
my send as sms is turned on.
Please turn this off.
Since your device is not connected to the internet it is using the above option (Send as SMS) to send you an SMS and not iMessage.
That is why it is Green and not Blue.
Once you turn Off the Send as SMS then either you will receive iMessage or you will see Undelivered!
I have the same problem. Messages I sent to myself were always blue when I was on WiFi (or green if I wasn’t cuz I have SMS turned on). Now suddenly starting a few days ago they are always green, even though I am connected to the internet and have iMessaging turned on. Did you ever figure out why this happens and how to fix it?
I just had a chat with an Apple supervisor. My issue started yesterday (1/8/2023) at around 3-3:30PM. Apparently Apple is updating their software which is why this issue is happening. They're working on fixing it in a new update so I was told to keep my phone up to date...
UPDATE - Found a fix that worked for me.
I did a few different things am not sure what did it bt hopefully this helps y’all. First I sent a iMessage to my iCloud email as suggested in this thread, then I signed out of iMessage and FaceTime for a few minutes, turned them both back on. For my iMessage I have my phone number and my Apple ID selected for send and receive messages from. I updated my software to the latest 16.3.1, and now it shows up with the blue iMessage when I text to myself.
Still green after send as sms is turned off and if it stays off don’t that mean that standard sms won’t work? We would want send as sms on right?
No it’s still green :(
Dunno if you need a fix still, but I went to messages and sent a new message to my iCloud email instead of my number and that fixed the chat stream
You said, “I went to messages and sent a new message to my iCloud email instead of my number and that fixed the chat stream”
Can you clarify? How do you send a message to your iCloud email?
Texting myself
