Send sms to phone instead of imessage to email

I am on an iPhone and have a contact with an email and phone number. The contact uses the email with iMessage and can access this through his iPad. They use an android for text messages. I would like to text this person and not use iMessage so that it will go to his phone which would require sending an sms message. Since my contact card has his email address setup to go to iMessage and his iPad, my phone sends an iMessage to his email instead of a text to his phone everytime.


How can I force my message to go as a text to his phone for this contact?


If I manually type in his phone number I can send a single text message to it, but any subsequent messages go as iMessage unless I manually again type his phone number for a new message.


Do I have to create 2 contacts for this person one with his phone number and one with email? That is not something that makes sense and I am hoping there is another way, but can't find anything.


Thanks

Posted on Mar 11, 2023 12:05 PM

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Mar 13, 2023 11:48 AM in response to powerbee

Hello powerbee,



Thanks for choosing the Apple Support Communities. We see you want to send SMS only for a contact on your iPhone. To do this, you would want to delete the iMessage email from their contact card. Once you do this, you will need to start or continue the SMS message thread with that contact.


More info on using SMS on iPad can be found here: Send and receive messages on iPad - Apple Support



We hope this helps.


Cheers!

Mar 13, 2023 2:06 PM in response to justinb2603

Justin, thanks for your reply. The only thing is I would still like to be able to email this contact. It sounds like you are saying I would actually need to create 2 different contact records for this person. One I use for texting and one I use for emailing. Is that what you are saying? Definitely not really an ideal solution. It would be more convenient to be able to set something directly on the conversation instead of having it chosen for me.


Thanks


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