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mindy1285 Author

Level 1

14 points

My Iphone 3gs was stolen. I got a new sim card and kept my same number, however, when anyone from an Iphone tries to text message me, it turns it into an imessage and goes to my stolen phone so the person with the stolen phone is getting all of my message

As I said, I kept my same number and am using an older phone. However, now when people with iphones text me, it changes them to imessages and sends them to my stolen iphone. I have contacted my service provider as well as Apple and no one seems to know what to do. I cannot receive any messages from anyone with an iphone, they go directly to imessages to my old phone (which was stolen). Please help!

iPhone 3GS, iOS 5.0.1

Posted on Nov 14, 2011 8:16 AM

16 replies

autrefois

Level 2

353 points

Dec 31, 2011 11:49 PM in response to wjosten

My wife was having the problem that texts to her were going to both of our phones, and texts from her were showing up to her friends as coming from me (even though she was sending them on her phone).

Your suggestion ("Settings>Messages>Receive At...you need to remove the email address you have listed here") appears to have fixed this problem. On her phone, we turned off iMessage, turned it back on, and removed my email address from there. Now it appears to be working correctly.

Don't know why after several months of us both being on iOS5 this suddenly started happening the other day, but at least your fix worked. Thanks!

My Iphone 3gs was stolen. I got a new sim card and kept my same number, however, when anyone from an Iphone tries to text message me, it turns it into an imessage and goes to my stolen phone so the person with the stolen phone is getting all of my message