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How to send SMS rather then iMessage on iOS 5

Is there any way how to send SMS instead of iMessage? I wont to use iMessage a lot because lot of my friends have iPhone. However, my wife has iPhone too but without data plan. When she is at home or at work, whe's connected via Wi-Fi and she can receive iMessage. But when she is shopping and has no wi-fi, I need to send SMS. At that time, my iPhone is still remembering that I can send the iMessage. How can I choose that I want to sent SMS (just one SMS)?

P.S.: Please, don't tell me to post this to Dev forum. I tried but I cannot login to the forum. I'm logged in to Apple dev pages, but when I clic on "Forum" it doesn't work (don't know why)...

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.4

Posted on Oct 5, 2011 1:13 PM

22 replies

jakudo Author

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Oct 13, 2011 11:00 PM in response to Macaby

She hes her apple ID in his iPhone, the iMessage works, the question is if I can choose what I want to send her, wheter iMessage or SMS...

Oct 16, 2011 3:09 AM in response to jakudo

I'm asking the same question here.. I'm in philippines and most I phone users here have no data plan.. I don't get it why there's no option to send as sms manually.. The option Send As Sms doesn't work well! I've done so many test runs on our iphones but no luck... And I think that option is only for the sending part... iMessage does not detect the receipients availability!

Oct 16, 2011 3:38 AM in response to jakudo

I just figured it out.. If your iMessage is undelivered, you have an option to manually send it as sms. Just click and hold the message bubble of the undelivered iMessage and hit send as sms! And there you go!

campboss

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Oct 16, 2011 4:51 AM in response to jakudo

I know this won't help u as your profile shows you using an iphone 4,but something to think about. On my iphone 4s I asked siri to send my wife a text and it did exactly that.I then asked siri to send her a message and it sent it as an imassage. If I type the text it always sends as an imassage.

Oct 24, 2011 8:26 AM in response to jakudo

Simple, tap and hold on the outgoing message after you hit send. There's a popup menu which will enable you to select "send as text message".

jakudo Author

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Oct 24, 2011 8:30 AM in response to Kev in YYC

I know I can do that. The question was if I can set (somehow) that I want to sent SMS in the first place (just now). One of many reasons might be that iMessages haven't character count...

Oct 25, 2011 7:26 PM in response to jakudo

You can turn OFF iMessage of course, so you'll be able to send SMS right away, and put it back ON if you want to use it again. Character count is only for SMS/MMS. Turn off iMessage to use this feature.

How to send SMS rather then iMessage on iOS 5