Disable iMessage for certain people

Did you sell the phone without resetting the phone and wiping off all your data? The new owner of the phone shouldn't receive your messages unless the iMessage account is still set up on the old iPhone with your number/emails.

A simple solution to your problem is type your message and as soon as you press send and the bubble appears with your txt in it press and keep hold of the bubble a pop will then show and you can select the "Send as text message"

regards

Ricky

I did a factory restore, and had to activate it with my account. I just had my friend disabled iMessage, and when he tried to enable again it asked him to verify with his own account.

Perfect. That takes care of the issue.

My brother just bought an Android phone after having had an iPhone. He had the same issue as described above, with messages sent to him from iphone users being send via iMessage, rather than by SMS. As a result, no messages sent to him from iPhone users were showing up on his Android phone.

Here is how to resolve the issue:

1. Put the SIM card back in your iPhone.

2. Turn iMessage on in your settings if it isn't already.

3. Turn on airplane mode.

4. Turn off iMessage.

5. Turn off airplane mode.

6. Put your sim card back in your android device.

That fixed things here.

I resolved same problem by removing email address from contacts and reactivating iMessage (off/on). I can put the email address back to contacts afterwards.

This was the solution for me, thanks!

Michel Korte

Instructions:

• Go to: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
• Log in if not already logged in.
• Click on “edit products”
• Click on the “x” to the right of the product.
• Click “unregister”

worked instantly! please repost on EVERY thread related!

I don't know about selecting who to send too but under settings then messages you can turn it off altogether

My Iphone was stolen, and I was forced to switch over to an android (since i did not have insurance I could not afford a new iPhone) However, now I cant receive text from my friends who are iPhone users their iphones continue to recognize my number as an iPhone user. Someone help.

Cyrus,

I tried what you suggested and I am still having the same problem. Any other suggestions?

after doing what Cyrus suggested I also logged into iCloud (https://www.icloud.com/) and deleted my phone from the find my phone app, and that seems to have solved the issue.

This only worked for 1 SMS for me, then it returned to using iMessage for the contact. I even removed the whole contact, rebooted the phone, and have not re-added the contact.

Thank You!!!! This has been bugging me for ages!

:-)

I was having the same problem. The person that has the iPhone which is recognizing your phone as an iPhone still, needs to go to settings, then messages, then turn iMessage off then back on. What this does is make that person's iPhone re- figure out what phones in their contacts are iPhones or not. It will figure out that you no longer have an iPhone and start to use regular text messages.