Impressive the issue happens across the board... just went to many google searches and seems that I am not the only one in the world that decided to buy an Iphone for the Spouce and we cannot recognize each other - so the iMessager works.
Apple, what is happening here? We have iPads, iMacs, and iPhones, but the integration is not working properly.
Tried some debug from the forums on the net.... Update the IOS is not the solution, as we have the latest. iMessager works fine with other contacts...
What is the criteria that the iPhone uses to recognize the phones as iPhones?
I realized the following:
- Sending from our @me account to @me account works fine... iMessage activates... but that is an email, isn't it? And the iPad's also get it..... what we do not want, as we want to keep our conversations only between our mobiles.
- When texting the number, does not work.... it goes to SMS
- For some selective contatcs, regardless of entering the number or the contact information, goes to iMessage right the way.
So, what is the trigger? IOS? Contact information? A bug?
Moreover, and more interesting:
a. On my Iphone (a 4S, black one) I cannot see the fields in the contact information on the same way as my Spouce's (a 4S, white one).
- My Spouce can add some fields which I cannot see... she can label the number as "iPhone", "home email", etc... and we have the same IOS (5.1)