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

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!

This works. 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.

All I had to do is to take a picture with the camera icon on the contact's page and send it....fixed!

Thanks.

Thanks. It really worked.

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

Hi,

I had a similar problem to Ben, the Send button was fixed on green after I did "Send as Text" to someone I normally iMessage with. Both their phone and mine had iMessage still switched on, registered to our mobile numbers & email addresses, so we tried full iOS and iMessage restarts and many of the tips above, but still nothing. My first SMS (green) message to them was yesterday, so I thought I'd try deleting all the green messages from that message stack, and lo and behold that seemed to fix it - the Send button became blue again. iOS "feature"?!

So I'm using version 9.1 on my iPhone. Open txt message app, select the conversation of your contact and says you are in iMessage mode. Go to settings turn off iMessage. Double click centre button on phone and swipe the message app up to close it. Can use this double click and swipe up to close all open and running apps in the background. Good idea to do this regularly to avoid phone slowing or using data. Now reopen message app and should have gone from imessage/blue to text message/green. To change back to iMessage Turn imessage back on in settings, go to message app and wait several seconds for iMessage to come up automatically.

You can try to use this method: http://foxyios.com/tips/how-to-turn-off-imessage