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i have been texting my boyfriend regularly and now for whatever reason it won't let me, it is forcing me to send SMS texts. i can text everyone else with iMessage and his are coming through as iMessage but i cannot send them back. i have changed locations, restarted my phone 3 times, turned my internet on and off and updated my phone. what do i have to do to fix this?
iPhone 15 Pro
he is getting my messages once they send as sms. he has been responding and they are coming through as imessage from him but i cannot send imessages back. neither one of us is blocked on each other's phones and he has been checking his settings as well. he restarted and updated his phone as well and nothing has been working. my number is associated with my apple id but he is in new york and i am in california so maybe that is the problem? we had no problem texting and facetiming yesterday because he got there yesterday in the morning so it was very out of the blue for all of this to not work. thank you for the suggestions! i will contact applecare i have not done that yet
he is getting my messages once they send as sms. he has been responding and they are coming through as imessage from him but i cannot send imessages back. neither one of us is blocked on each other's phones and he has been checking his settings as well. he restarted and updated his phone as well and nothing has been working. my number is associated with my apple id but he is in new york and i am in california so maybe that is the problem? we had no problem texting and facetiming yesterday because he got there yesterday in the morning so it was very out of the blue for all of this to not work. thank you for the suggestions! i will contact applecare i have not done that yet
Did you ever fix the problem if so how? This just happened to me my iMessages won’t send only as sms and he’s only getting them as sms help!
First question, is he getting your messages even though they go out as SMS? I ask this because when someone blocks you either purposefully or on accident, your texts to them will go out as SMS and not give you any notification that your message did not reach them. I have accidentally blocked people before. When I did that, I could still send to them with no indication that the message was failing to get them. They may have actually gotten my messages. I actually just now blocked a friend and sent him a message just to see if he gets it while blocked. I will find out soon!
Second question, has he checked his own settings? You mentioned that this doesn't happen with anyone else.
Try toggling off the setting to "Send as SMS" in Settings - Messages, then send your boyfriend a message. Does it go out as iMessage or does it fail? Toggle the setting back on after this and then try sending again. I have messaged people who were in an area with poor coverage. Those messages go out as SMS. That's normal. If your boyfriend is usually in an area with poor coverage, that could also be the cause of this problem.
The last thing to check is to make sure that your phone number is associated with your Apple ID. You should do this even though the issue does not happen with other people you send messages to.
Have you spoken to AppleCare about this?
Not sure if anyone will see this but I found something that worked for me. For whatever reason my text messages to my son switched from being iMessages to text messages. I tried all the fixes and nothing worked and I really did not want to delete him as a contact (I didn’t want to lose the message thread). I went into the face time app and called him from there. Then went back into the text message app and it switched back. Maybe this will help someone else to not have to deleted the whole thread.
Happening to me as well, with my wife! All of a sudden getting green bubbles when I send to her.
It does not say delivered
imessage wont work for one specific person
