DuxburyDad wrote:
Been following this for a while, tried every suggested fix which all boiled down to calling a Apple support number provided by Verizon.
The technician acknowledged the problem and that it has existed for over a year. He also said he would be subjected to disciplinary action if he submitted another trouble ticket for this problem. Problem exists today, 3 weeks after the switch.
Any solution that puts the owness on the user or their contacts is specious at best. When you bow out , you should be out with nothing interfereing with your normal operation. The length of time this problem has existed certainly gives creedence to those that suggest it is punishment.
This issue is squarely in Apple's court and they have seen fit not to address the problem for those that have left the Apple sphere.
Here is what we deal with. Once phone number was taken out of imessage database, sender has two options.
One is to enable automatic sending by going to Setting - messages and turn SMS on and Two is every time see that message is not delivered and opt to either send as SMS or not to. If sender chooses not to send - OWell- result is recipient will not receive. The only way things happen to make it like recipient had never had an iphone is to clear the cache of all senders phones if they do not want to enable automatic switch.
Now we are talking about wiping part of the memory of 50 to 100 current Apple customers for one of the former. And to do what? to make it easy for him/her to leave Apple? Let me be a bearer of Bad news. If Apple would do that I would call them crazy. Otherwise good luck to everyone and consider it a karma for leaving Apple. Nobody promised it would be easy and if anyone can show me or direct me to link where Apple did promise that - I d be happy to see.