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Pat518 Author

Level 1

8 points

iPhone to Android iMessage bug fix

I was having the problem when i switched from my iPhone to my Galaxy s4 where people using iPhones would try to text me and it wouldn't get to me because it would be sent in iMessage. Well i asked one of my friends who knows a lot about Apple products and he seems to have found a fix. What worked for me is to open iTunes, then go to account. Once there find the the section "iTunes in the cloud" and the option in there "Manage my devices". You have to go in there and remove your iPhone from the iCloud and that should work, or at least it did for me.

Posted on Jun 3, 2013 9:01 PM

597 replies

fromsouth

Level 5

4,945 points

Dec 15, 2014 2:51 PM in response to Lydeckr

To your opinion it is unrelated, to mine it is a bug. As I have posted, when they continue to use reply to our mail conversations from before I moved on to gmail, stuff goes to hotmail. Microsoft is stealing my mail. I need to bring light to that "LIGHT". Microsoft is bad. New conversations also switch to old email in my friends computers when they start typing my name. Bad Microsoft. Microsoft should fix that bug and wipe my friends computers so they only remember new email.

Lydeckr

Level 1

0 points

Dec 15, 2014 3:01 PM in response to fromsouth

Back to this conversation, it is a bug for Apple devices to have new group conversations with new saved phone numbers that are not registered on iMessage servers resort to iMessage. This causes it so that Android users miss out on group conversations. I would love for Apple to issue a bug fix to check that all phone numbers are registered with iMessage before switching away from MMS.

fromsouth

Level 5

4,945 points

Dec 15, 2014 6:19 PM in response to Lydeckr

Lydeckr wrote:

Back to this conversation, it is a bug for Apple devices to have new group conversations with new saved phone numbers that are not registered on iMessage servers resort to iMessage. This causes it so that Android users miss out on group conversations. I would love for Apple to issue a bug fix to check that all phone numbers are registered with iMessage before switching away from MMS.

It is a bug for Microsoft that when people type in my name in their email my old email account pulls up and microsoft servers resort to microsoft email. Bad microsoft bad. That causes people to email to my old email and I would live Microsoft to issue bug fix and wipe my friends computers so they do not keep switching to old email.

lizdance40

Level 4

2,424 points

Dec 15, 2014 6:59 PM in response to fromsouth

That isn't the same at all.

An equivalent would be if you change from iCloud email to gmail and everyone edits their contact list to record the new email. But everytime a group email list is sent with icloud emails involved, your email is auto changed from @gmail to @iCloud. Even that isn't quite equal because iCloud email will communicate with any other email and iMessage won't.

I don't know that I would call it a bug, but I can't say it isn't a bug either. as mentioned, group messages are carrier controlled. For example, AT&T limits groups to 10 . If you have 30 people to contact you have to send 3 messages.

i Have several apple devices, but an android phone. I have noticed iMessage turns on by itself on occasion on my iPad, which I don't use for messaging.

Unless every iPhone user unregisters from iMessage and never uses it again, they will continue to send messages through a system that only iphone users can use.

fromsouth

Level 5

4,945 points

Dec 15, 2014 9:11 PM in response to lizdance40

I have an annoying friend and somehow in group messages my messages to him become imessages, despite the fact that me and him have android phones.

I thank you kindly for your valuable expertise and explanations, but please do not deprive me of my entertainment nightly

Lydeckr

Level 1

0 points

Dec 15, 2014 9:31 PM in response to fromsouth

Come back when people delete your old email address and old email threads from their computer, compose a new email to your correct gmail address, and their windows computer prevents it from sending to gmail and routes it to your Hotmail address instead.

That would be a bug like this Apple bug.

fromsouth

Level 5

4,945 points

Dec 16, 2014 4:43 AM in response to Lydeckr

Just as i said until microsoft wipes all my friends computers i will still send imessages to my annoying friend from my LG phone. I love that bringing light process.

Lydeckr

Level 1

0 points

Dec 16, 2014 7:53 AM in response to fromsouth

Do you not understand the issue, or is there a different reason why you are trying to obfuscate the existence of this bug with straw men posts?

fromsouth

Level 5

4,945 points

Dec 16, 2014 10:32 AM in response to Lydeckr

Do you understand the issue or bringing light?

Lydeckr

Level 1

0 points

Dec 16, 2014 10:46 AM in response to fromsouth

I understand both, I understand what the bug issue is and I understand what the idiom bringing something to light means.

fromsouth

Level 5

4,945 points

Dec 16, 2014 4:37 PM in response to Lydeckr

Do you understand issue or are you bringing light?

tie1

Level 1

0 points

Dec 19, 2014 2:23 PM in response to Lydeckr

Maybe an app issues you try getting kitkat luncher add it to your app list go to your settings on your phone turn it on as an add-on to your phone system and a addKit Kat turn it on it a add on it most likely fix the issues