I bought an Android phone tonight, replacing my iPhone. I also ported my number to the new phone. However, now, anytime someone with an iPhone tries to SMS me, their phone automatically sends it as an iMessage, which I can't receive, since I no longer use my iPhone. How do I deactivate my phone number with iMessage so that I can start receiving text messages from my iOS-using friends again?
iPhone 4S, iOS 5.0.1
Out of curiousity, why did you bother replying to a post from over a year and a half ago?
No matter. This post is completely pointless on its own.
Agreed. I'm always curious about the motivations of such 'necrobumping', however. Ah, well. Moving on.
This worked for me for a few weeks. Now I'm back to having the problem intermittently again...
It's like he's having a conversation with thin air...
Hi!
How has this worked out for you? I just tried to change my password aswell and hope that it helps 🙂
I just got a galaxy note 3 about 4 days ago. I didn't know I was supposed to turn off imessage. I am not receiving texts from my iphone friends. I have tried everything on here and wasted countless hours of my life trying to figure out how to figure it out. Apple has lost me as a future customer to any of their other products and I will not recommened them to anyone. Apple is dead.
omg you wrote this in 2011 and its now 2013. lol but you know what? It still works!! yay thank you!!!
WHY CANT I FIND EDIT PRODUCTS??????????
The suggested solution didn't work for me, but changing my Apple password did indeed work.
Where do I find this, i don't see anywhere , where it says edit products
Worked like a charm!!
This works 🙂
Thanks a lot!
what happened after 24 hours ? did it work ?
Erase iPhone is what finally worked for me.
Can't deactivate iMessage after switching phones?
