How can you switch between text message and iMessage on a specific contact?

This does not seem to work in iOS 7.0.3. When I press and hold the "send" button it does not give me an option for how I send to another user, even if the other user is an iPhone user.

Its an infuriating bug.

I had a similar problem where i couldnt send the text as imessage even after following the steps that have been posted here before... so my solution go to Setting>Messages>turn off iMessage>turn on iMessage..im using ios 7.0.3

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! 🙂

My iMessage is playing up so I had to revert to text message sending. I encountered the same problem here whereby I could not return to sending iMessages to these particular contacts (without deleting conversation history). However I found a solution ....

Find the contact who you have set Text Message for in your Contacts are and click the "Send Message" at the bottom of their entry. This loaded up my previous conversation with an iMessage ready to go.

FINALLY!!

Someone with a solution to the issues I'm having!

My mum's iPhone stopped working so had to change her device, she chose a non apple device so therefore no longer can accept iMessage anymore. For some reason my option to resend iMessages as text messages has disappeared?!? Other than switching iMessage off completely I couldn't send her a text. This solution looks to be the only sensible and most workable solution to this issue that I have read in numerous threads.

I've tried many of the other "fixes" I've read on these forums to no avail.

When I next see her we'll log onto the apple website and try this so fingers crossed this will work for us.

Thank you for posting this potential fix!!

Go to settings. Go to messages. Turn off iMessages. Turn on MMS which allows text.

Not the easiest thing to figure out. Once you mess with these options it all becomes more intuitively obvious AFTER you figure it out. It's "oh yeah. Of course. Duh".

Thank you sooo much for this post fvwckids (3rd page). This fixed my problem. Once I change the toggle over to send SMS if iMessage is unavailable, I went back to my contact and resent a message, it sent it as a iMessage at first and then sent the message a sms and then it changed the setting for the contact.and doesn't show iMessages any more.... : ) Thank you!

A variation on PitbullFan01's suggestion worked for me. I hold on a message til "copy | more" pops up. I select "more". There appears a list of all messages in the thread, I select them all, and delete them. Problem solved.

I have had a lot of these similar problems with iMessage and here is a fix that finally worked for an international friend. We use an email account as the phone number in the forgein account. For some reason it works phone to phone- blue on blue. Sad but true!!

Hi. To switch easily from iMessage to SMS, just turn on SMS on the Messages tab on Settings on your iPhone.

Automatically, it will send an SMS when iMessage is not available.

If the other phone is not an iPhone and Messages keeps on sending iMessages, just turn off Wifi and Mobile Data so that your iPhone will HAVE to send an SMS. Easy as pie.

The easiest solution from the list mentioned that worked for me was pressing down on a the green message until the more option, then selecting the green SMS messages and trashing them. Once only blue messages are left then it reverts back to imessages as default.

Ehh, ****. I just wrote a half-page-long reply and managed to delete all of it. Well, however: I have failed to succeed using any of the methods listed – the most promising probably being to send via iMac – which simultaneously is very unaccessible if I were to be forced to toggle back Text Message at any point. What really bothers me about this is not the issue in itself, but that Apple, with a wealth of functions and assets, seem to have forgotten many of the essentials that would vastly improve their mobile OS and physical hardware. IPhone lacks FM radio, "very-loud-mode" on the ringtone, the ability issue very basic tasks such as toggling back to iMessage, a viable sales strategy whereby they dont have to disable SD (mobile memory) cards in order to retail 32 Gb variants; a reliable piece of hardware on which the first thing that breaks isn't the actual, super-important microphone… – the list can proceed.

One thing that I could solve it for me is to restart my iMac since my iMac-SMS didn't deliver from my own account – I just logged in and it sent it from the person that was previously. I will return with feedback if it works, but at the time I'm writing this, there is still a lack of viable solutions on the go for this corny conundrum.

The best of regards,

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Ps. Sorry for bumping an old thread; I thought it was somewhat necessary.

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Special thanks to abhijit1001, InspectorJason, PitbullFan01, Joeadvisor, AOnstine and EguiarteDG for a fair attempt.

Hi all if anyone is still having these issues and none of the current post have worked I have a solution for you.

All you have to do is get on a macbook and use the messages app.

Messages app>Preferences>Accounts>Login to your apple ID and active the account.

This is what I found that worked for me. I was getting the green balloons messaging my wife's iPhone while I was getting blue messaging my daughter's iPhone. Solution: I had my wife turn her phone completely off and it was able to reset her settings. Now blue balloons messaging her. Thanks! 🙂

This seems to be a bit of a split thread. Some are trying to send only as SMS while others are trying to get their iMessage to send back and forth once again only with blue bubble, and no SMS (green).

I have discovered a fix for the latter (iMessage only - blue). Seems it has nothing to do with the settings on YOUR phone, but it is related to what is incoming (the settings on the INCOMING PHONE) that will depict the type that you receive (green) and how it replies (stays green if incoming was green.)

My brother and I both have iPhones, but one day a while back, he was not getting reliable cellular data (couldn't open websites etc) and while he was trying to iMessage me, his phone prompted him to send as SMS, and he accepted. When that message came to me, it was green. And after that point in the message stream, all my replies, and all further messages from him were green or SMS.

This morning, I asked him to check Settings>Messages> then check if iMessage was toggled on or off. He said his was off, but he didn't know how it got turned off. This was probably an automatic toggle when the phone prompted him to "send as SMS". So he toggled it back on.

So, I sent him a new message, and was frustrated to find that the bubble was still green-SMS! But... when he replied, it came back as blue-iMessage! And all further messages are now iMessage...

Hope our experience helps someone else.

Cheers