iPhone to Android iMessage bug fix

I actually called Apple Support and they prompted me to reset my Apple ID that was under iMessage.

That helped me to remove my cell phone number that was under iMessage services.

That's a garbage answer. It is clearly an issue that needs to be fixed.

seriously! what on earth is the deal?!?!? I switched from an iphone 5 with ios7 to a galaxy note 3. i turned off imessage, deleted my icloud from the phone, went to apple support and manage settings, changed my apple id password, deleted my phone number...and i still cant receive texts from iphone users. I talked to apple about the issue, their only solution was to text everyone of my iphone user contacts and tell them to delete me as a contact on their icloud and re add me. absurd. i like the whole apple ecosystem. I use iphones, apple tv, and a macbook pro, but this is just flat a flat out stupid GLITCH that needs to be answered ASAP

On your iphone go to general and scroll to bottom when you see reset then choose reset network

Just some notes on what I have seen:

-This is not a glitch, it is the way the software is designed. It was done on purpose. It places responsibility on the user.

-You need to remove more than just your phone from iMessage!!! Just removing your phone accomplishes nothing; the iMessages will still be sent as iMessages, just to your iPod, PC or iPad. You must remove all devices from iMessage.

-You won't recover iMessage Group functionality. iMessage is a fairly dry, weak version of free products such as Line, Skype or Kakaotalk. It is an Apple exclusive application with no cross-platform compatibility. If you leave Apple, you lose iMessage. It is just an inconvenient app that comes preinstalled in all Apple products that suckers have unfortunately become accustomed to.

Plea to Apple:

You have a product that has the reputation of anyone "being able to just pick it up and use it." I have seen enough uninformed people leave Apple, then blame Android for this debacle. It is clear that this is the desired effect, but that is a dick move. Just add a radio switch below "iMessage: On/Off" that says "Deactivate iMessage for all devices? Yes/No."

Problem solved. Your user experience is salvaged and you don't have masses raging at whoever happens to come to mind first.

Better yet, create the iMessage app for android and charge users some price to switch. Increases your market, gives iPhone users an opportunity to salvage group chat and you can still punish those who stray from your product line. iMessage is a ****-poor alternative to the above mentioned products, but you already have the consumer base so this is purely an opportunity for profit.

If you have any thoughts or would actually consider this, let's talk.

Better yet, create the iMessage app for android and charge users some price to switch. Increases your market, gives iPhone users an opportunity to salvage group chat and you can still punish those who stray from your product line. iMessage is a ****-poor alternative to the above mentioned products, but you already have the consumer base so this is purely an opportunity for profit.

If you have any thoughts or would actually consider this, let's talk.

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I was going to unsubscribe from this thread, and if possible also delete my apple id. but then i had a thought

It's been about a month since I moved over to android (little annoyed i didn't wait for the nexus 5 but still) and only in the past few days have i not had complaints about imessage from iphones not getting to me. (would say message not delivered and she would have to select 'send as text message').

this is after I disabled it on the iphone, removed my iphone from my account, and reset my apple id password.

so it seems it takes a while for it all to filter through

But, i asked a collegue with his iphone to send me a text and he still had to resend it as a plain text. And now i'm about to on-sell my old iphone - will the girl who buys it from me start getting imessages intended for me? As I understand it, imessage looks for the serial no. of the device so even if i've deregistered and wiped it i'm still not so sure.

Not impressed Apple. This policy of Total Control of everything (needing to have a PC with iTunes installed to add music to your phone?) is not only poor form it's unethical. Glad I switched to Android and wish I had done it sooner.

ps. I'll be needing a new home computer soon, was actually thinking of switching to a macbook. not so sure now.

w3a2....The one thing I have found to actually stop this from happening is adding a new phone number to the iphone so when you sell it and the person activates it with a new number, the problem with stop! I noted on this thread a while ago that I have several lines and the one thing I have to do when switching back and forth from my iphone to droid is temporarily add a different phone number to my iphone. That is the only thing I have found that works. It's a pain and obviously not everyone can do it. But it does stop the iphone from receiving any iMessages that are intended as texts.

I basically resetted my Apple ID that was tied to iMessage and my number... That helped in removing iMessage from my device...

I no longer have that problem, I still use iMessage with my iPad and Mac... But I get text messages from my Note.

I have the same issue. My friends all switched my contact from iphone to mobile, deleted previous imessage conversations, and then filled my imessage slot with my email address. they even tried telling it to send as a text message. They still get a failure to send notification. When they dont, It still says delivered in an imessage format. some of my friends have even tried completely deleting then re-making my contact. When all this occurs, who else besides apple could possibly be at fault for this?

in my case, they try to send as sms, but then get a failure to deliver notifacation. or they just dissappear and never get delivered to any device.

Sorry, the support website doesn't help or work. Resetting everything under the sun since I was born, doesn't help. Calling Apple, doesn't help. Turning on/off imessage on wife/kids phones, doesn't help. Resetting iTunes, AppleID, doesn't help. Hooking up my Apple IIe and Macintosh from 1984 and deactivating, doesn't help. The answer is to tell your friends to fix it on their end...what a joke. This is absolutely ridiculous...guess I will forgo buying that new iPad Air in protest. Apple needs to get their head out of their @$$ and fix this.

Please do not be rude. I loved my iPhone 4s. They just did not have the iphone I wanted that day at Best Buy and suggested I try the Samsung Note 3 and If I didn't like it I could bring it back and exchange it for the new iPhone. I actually fell in love with the new one. We are not griping about Apple. We just need some kind of help getting messages from our friends with iphones.

chrisk03 wrote:

Sorry, the support website doesn't help or work. Resetting everything under the sun since I was born, doesn't help. Calling Apple, doesn't help. Turning on/off imessage on wife/kids phones, doesn't help. Resetting iTunes, AppleID, doesn't help. Hooking up my Apple IIe and Macintosh from 1984 and deactivating, doesn't help. The answer is to tell your friends to fix it on their end...what a joke. This is absolutely ridiculous...guess I will forgo buying that new iPad Air in protest. Apple needs to get their head out of their @$$ and fix this.

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