Disable iMessage for certain people

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.

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.

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.

I am not sure if I fixed entirely the issue. However, I was having this issue when I switched from the iphone to the s3 and my grandmothers iphone was still sending as imessage and would not get to me. Everywhere I looked it said hard reset and don't backup. In the settings if her iphone under message, it said send text as sms if imessage fails and it was off. Check if that is on and if it isn't try turning it on. I think it worked I have been messaging her for a while and I don't think I have missed anything. Although it is still blue... we are communicating fine.

I figured out my issue, how to prevent iMessages from going to both my girlfriend phone and my phone at the same time,NOTE: both phones are using the same apple ID and only iMessages are beings received on both phones when when intended to be received by only one. With this fix iMessages now only go to the phone the message was intended to go to in the first place. Under settings -> messages -> send & receive , select the phone number/ email addresses that you want that particular device to receive messages at. This is again assuming that both devices are using the same apple ID.

Hope this helps

LT

I just switched to a Lumia 925 tired of the iphone's bluetooth issues 4, 4S and 5. What worked for me is turning on my Iphone 5 without a sim and with a WiFi connection.

Then going to settings and messages and turned off iMessage. left it on for a bit then powered the phone off.

Within 10-20 minutes my wife's phone and friends phones stopped using iMessage.

Maybe the 6 will have better bluetooth and I'll be back.

If you or someone you know have switched from an iPhone to a non-iPhone device, you can deactivate iMessage by unregistering your iPhone. You can do so by logging in to your Apple ID from:

supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do.

More info on this can be found here:

http://support.vodafone.com.au/articles/FAQ/How-to-deactivate-iMessage-if-you-re -switching-from-iPhone

Hope that helps! 🙂

I did the following to my iPhone 5 running iOS 7.03 and it appeard to solve the problem.

Go to Settings > Messages > activate "Send as SMS". (MMS Messaging should already be activated, if not try turning it on as well)

This is will send the message as an SMS when iMessage is not available to the other user.

NOTE: When you try sending an SMS message during an iMessage session to your contact it will still be highlighted in blue, don't fret, soon after it appears in blue you will see a "not delivered" message. Shortly after that, a green SMS message bubble should pop up right after.

You can also turn off iMessage entirely from this area in Settings if you just want to use SMS or MMS/SMS.

Good Luck!

This does help to the message gets through, but my friend now recieves 2 sms's, one for when i try the iMessage, and one for when it "fails" and i try SMS...

earlier he didn't even recieve my messages as I only iMessaged him (couldn't choose and I couldn't see he had turned it off)

so somewhere there is still a bug 🙂

go into Settings > Messages and toggle to on/green "Send as SMS." Note that underneath that item it reads "Send as SMS when iMessage is unavailable. Carrier messaging rates may apply." If your contact isn't on an iPhone, it will automatically send as SMS. If your contact is on an iPhone/Ipad and/or has iMessage activated, it will send as an iMessage.

I was having this problem while texting my sister. Sometimes the message would go to her iPad and sometimes it would go to her android. I ultimately made a separate contact with just her email address and labeled it Audrey iPad. No issues since.

I found a solution! Go to the person'a contact in address book and look at what the number is listed as (iphone, mobile, home...) and change this to "Pager". It causes your iphone to send as SMS to the "Pager" by default.

How is it there is still no solution to this? This is a serious usability problem. My mother does not have a data plan but Messages keeps insisting on trying to send her iMessages when I text her, which she doesn't get until she gets back home.

How can there not be a way to disable iMessages for a contact?

Now I am experiencing this with a friends iPhone I setup earlier. What I said above doesn't work with his contact on my phone, but it still works for anothe contact I have. Will explore this further.

I have this exact same issue. Any idea what to do about this yet?