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

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.

I Found out that if you go to your contacts for what ever number your messaging and put in the fact that the number your texting is in fact an iphone then it will switch back to iMessage instead of texting

This is actually easy. When you are in iMessage click new messages and start typing in the persons name. You will see iMessage as one of the options for that person on the right (if they use iMessage) then just click that. It will switch the chat you already have to use iMessage instead.

iMessage uses the last used method you use with that contact, even if used on the iPhone. This is why the contact is grouped on the computer, and on your iPhone messages you will see each type in it's own thread.

I was sending a text as iMessage but it wasn't sending so I sent it as a text message. I was also trying to figure out how to get it back to iMessage. Once the person texted me back it automatically went back to iMessage because that person has an iPhone. So maybe just waiting for the person to text back will help. Hope this helps.

Here's How To Fix It!

Step 1) Go To Settings

Step 2) Go To Messages

Step 3) Turn Off IMessage And MMS

Step 4) Go To The Go To Messages And Refresh It Or Remove It From Your Recent Tabs

Step 5) Go To The Messages And See It Worked!

The only way to switch that contact back to iMessage once you've switched it to SMS is to erase the history (delete the entire name from the text message list) and then recreate it again.

Worked perfect, thanks!

This did not work for me. Using iOS 5.1.1

Send out the message as iMessage, after that click on the text just sent and a baloon will be shown asking if you wish to send as SMS!

Just an additional tip, you have to be quick and click on message before it has been sent, I mean, before you get the log as delivered.

The issue is not with the contact setup on your device, but rather that the person you are sending too did not disable iMessage before they stopped using their iPhone.

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

Thanks abhijit1001 on page 2 . Your solution fixed my problem

This works. Thank you!