How many green in a blue iMessage?

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How many green in a blue iMessage?

Hi, I wonder if anyone can help finding best practice for this:

When my partner and I are travelling to different destinations and outside the country, we are both outside our normal call and data plans. This means we pay per text message sent and don't use roaming data as it is super expensive. Typically we would be at wifi-spots intermittently. We use iMessage to text.

When I start typing a message, iMessage starts blue and does not normally know if the message will get delivered in blue. Therefore, when I send the message, I dont know if it will be a free message, or a paid for message. Now, iMessage does have a character count, but ONLY if you are in green mode, and not when you are in blue. So when I use the 'send as text message' option on a message that is already typed, i don't know how many messages I will actually send, and how much I will pay.

The alternative is that I always send green messages, therefore always pay for a text message. Is there no better way to deal with this?

Many thanks for your response.

Posted on Oct 31, 2012 2:41 AM

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Answer 1

deggie

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Oct 31, 2012 4:36 AM in response to 06nH

If it starts as blue it should be sent as an iMessage unless something fails at either end.

iMessage does not have a text message count since there is no character limitation when sending an iMessage.

You could disable the alternative to send as SMS then you would not be charged.

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06nH Author

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Oct 31, 2012 4:57 AM in response to deggie

Thanks deggie. I think something may well fail - but it is pretty consistent at failing. When you are on and off in wifi space, or difficult to track perhaps, iMessage starts as blue even if on the other end the phone is not connected.

I don't mind being charged, but I want to know how much. Now there is no way of telling.

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