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

Is that the only way to fix this? Can Apple not deactivate it?

I figured out how to switch between Imessage and SMS

if the conversation you are in is currently under SMS and does not revert automatically you will have to get the email address of your recipiant. you will have to create a new conversation under the "To: " field you will have to enter their Apple ID Email adress and it will send it as an Imessage, This will create two Conversations, One for SMS and one for Imessage, this was the easiest i found to switch back and forth besides deleting them and adding them again.🙂

Hope this helps

HERE IS THE FIX!!!!!

I was sending imessages to my girlfriend last night just fine and all of a sudden my messages to her switched to "Text Messages." I thought it was a network issue so I tried to imessage another iPhone user and still message was being sent as "Text Message."

HERE IS THE FIX!!!:

Open the message thread. Within the message thread, click Edit in the top right corner. Place a dot next to EACH TEXT MESSAGE within the message thread. Click Delete. Do this for any other iphone message threads that have switched from iMessage to Text message. When you've deleted the Text messages from within the iMessage threads, this should automatically switch you back to iMessages...

IMessage is dependent upon on Internet connection --either cellular or WiFi.

To force SMS, turn of your data and Wifi connection.

To force Imessage turn it back on.

This other stuff mentioned here is just plain silly ... I've never done any of that stuff.

I had the same problem as the original poster. If you're having a conversation with someone through Imessage and the connection gets slow or stagnant you can hold down a your text message and it will give the option of sending as SMS. I have found if you do this more than once in row with the same contact Imessage will then send all following messages as SMS. For a lot of us with limits on texting this is infuriating!

So far, the only fix I have found is to do what someone above suggested...send an Imessage text from your Ipad or computer (I guess you have to have a Mac?) and then have that person reply. At that point it will reset the contact on your Iphone back to Imessage.

The suggestion somewhere above you can simply hold down the SEND button for 5 seconds to get the options does not work on my Iphone (Iphone 4 with iOS 6.1.3)

Thanks abhijit1001 on page 2 . Your solution fixed my problem

FIXED!! Thanks abhijit1001 - your post helped me figure out the fix to the opposite problem. My husband changed from iPhone to Samsung Galaxy S4 but my messages to him still kept going out as iMessages instead of SMS so he wasn't seeing them. After reading your post about Facetime I went to the top of the messages conversation, hit Facetime (which of course didn't work as he no longer has an iPhone) and hey presto my messages to him have now switched from iMessage to SMS. Easy peasy! So no need to delete your messages etc. - the iOS detects the recipient as having an iPhone or not via Facetime.

Hope this helps.

I had this same issue with my assistant (who switched from an iPhone to an android) and my husband just fixed it! The facetime thing didn't work for me.

Go to Settings, Messages, Then the toggle for "Send as SMS" should be clicked on. That way it sends as SMS when iMessage is unavailable.

Fixed!

Hi

If iMessage is on, the 'Send' button is Blue,

If nothing is typed, in the message box, the word 'iMessage' is shown..

Now to switch to text msg, all that we need to do is to press and hold the 'Send' button for 3 seconds..

Voila, the 'Send' button becomes Green and the message box has the words 'Text Message' instead of iMessage..

To switch back to iMessage, we just need to press and hold the Green 'Send' button for 3 seconds and it becomes Blue..

:)

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".