Iphone users cannot text me after switching platforms. Please Help

I deleted my iPhone under product registration, tried to disable iMessage on my Mac, tried wiping the phone remotely, removed the phone altogether from "find my iPhone", called tech support who claimed it was a carrier issue and wouldnt reset it till i git a verification text which i never receieved (thats understandable but ARGHH), went to an apple store who told me to call support. Clearly apples intuitive to make people's lives easier doesn't extend to people leaving their ecosystem.

Contact your carrier and ask them to enable "short code" messages on your account. They may also know that as private message gateway. Once they enable - call Apple back and ask to revoke your phone number. Have someone on the line with you with iphone, so you can verify if it works right away.

This is a two part fix.

Part 1 is getting your iMessage registration revoked if you do not have access to your prior iPhone. See http://support.apple.com/kb/TS5185

Part 2 requiries the cooperation of the sending iPhones.

On the sending iPhone do the following:

1. Select SETTINGS

2. Select MESSAGES

3. Enable SEND_AS_SMS

I now have the galaxy s5 and am experiencing the same thing. My friends iphones still think that I am an iPhone user. I called apple support and was given a couple of options.

1. Change your account password on apple ; this may take 24-48 hours to delete your number off of imessage

2. From your number text '48369' With the word 'STOP'

3. Have iphone users delete you from their contacts & add you again under "mobile" instead of iphone.

If all fails to work.. it may take up to 45 Days to clear your number from apple

I don't yet know whether it worked, but when I texted as in number 2 in the immediately preceding post, i got a reply that says: "FREE MESSAGE: Apple iCloud ID Verification: You have been unsubscribed and will no longer receive messages. 1-8---275-2273"

Lewis011 wrote:

I don't yet know whether it worked, but when I texted as in number 2 in the immediately preceding post, i got a reply that says: "FREE MESSAGE: Apple iCloud ID Verification: You have been unsubscribed and will no longer receive messages. 1-8---275-2273"

It is a placebo pill for people who do not understand what worked already. There are only two things that work one or another.

1. Turning off imessage

2. Calling Apple to deregister phone number.

If anyone after that has problem to text you it is his/her iphone. They just need to turn off imessage and turn back on. During that time their phone will get connected to imessage server and updated that your number is out. I know it is hard to believe a stranger so believe Apple.

iOS: Deactivating iMessage - Apple Support

OK, I won't know if it worked because I called Apple and had them de-register the phone number. It took a little finagling, because the iPhone I replaced is 5 years old and outside of the service period. But once I got a real person on the line, he knew exactly what the issue was (no surprise there!), and took steps that should resolve it.

Ok, my daughter recently switched from an iPhone to an Android phone and wasn't receiving text messages from iPhone users any more (or only sometimes would). The first important step was calling Apple Support and having them remove her phone number from the iMessage system to keep it from hijacking her messages. That allowed her to receive regular text messages from iPhone friends most of the time, but not always for certain group messages. Apparently, this is a bug Apple is going to fix, but here's what I found:

If you create a group message on the iPhone with a mixture of iPhone and non-iPhone recipients, you need to have AT LEAST TWO non-iPhone recipients in the list or it will send iMessages to everyone. It should be doing that if you have at least one non-iPhone recipient. For any group text sessions with one lone non-iPhone recipient, I added a dummy email address to the list to force the group text session into SMS mode (green) instead of iMesssage (blue). You could add a dummy phone number or whatever you want as long as it's not an iMesssage phone number. You also should consider that your group messages will be going to this new dummy destination, so if you're concerned about privacy, then use something you know won't be received by anyone. If necessary, you could create a junk email account that you control and use that as the junk recipient. That will avoid the unfortunate situation where you use RandomJunkEmail@gmail.com and someone actually owns that account and reads your group text conversations. Anyway, that's what I'm doing until this gets fixed and it's working.

This avoids telling your iPhone friends to stop using or turn off iMessage (works, but annoying and inconvenient for them) or deleting their contacts and recreating them (didn't make much difference in my case).

Is that possible that just modifying of the group actually created successful SMS? Any phone number added/deleted to/from group - making iphones to re evaluate those groups as far as imessage/SMS recipients? That would be nice if we could check that...