Turning off iMessage without iPhone 4s present

So I tried just about all of the suggestions when I still had my iPhone.

-Turned off imessage

-Turned imessage on, but removed my phone number from imessage. Then turn imessage back off.

-Delete my phone from find my iphone

-Went to manage my appleid (appleid.apple.com) and removed my phone number.

-Called apple and had them remove me from iMessage. I think they might have sent me a text to deauthorize my number said it should take 2 days

I thought this was working, but I guess everyone was just resending the text messages when they failed. Oh and they stopped group texting me 😟

Or what's worse, I had 1 friend whose phone has stopped trying to imessage me, so she sent a group text, but i was only seeing her responses, so the conversation looked very strange.

Apple support person, told me to tell all my iPhone friends to remove all text messages with me from their phones, and after they send the first failed message as a text, it will work.

FYI: It didn't. I went so far as to delete all the messages on one phone and delete my contact, and power off the phone. When I turned the phone back on, and added my number again (as mobile not iPhone) it still tried to imessage me.

So today I was on my computer and realized in the itunes store, under my account, it has listed all of my devices I can downloand music to. OMG my iphone is still there!!!! I removed it! Praying this works! I really don't want to wait on the phone to to talk a support person who doesn't care that I can't text with my friends. I also don't want to change my number because apple thinks by making it harder for me to leave, I will stay.

Go into the iTunes store click account, then go to manage devices and delete the iPhone device. Thats what worked for me I feel so much better 🙂 this was driving me crazy!

On the phone with apple as i type and they seem can not fix this imessaging problem. I too got a galaxy and supposedly my iphone was deactivated at the apple store. My # does not show in the apple data base and shows deactivated but a new client tonight, who just got my # tried to text me and it sent as a imessage, I have had my new phone for about 3 weeks now. so annoying and I hope to have this issue fixed so I do not miss any future texts from iphone users

Hi folks, I deregistered my device, removed it from iTunes store and also deleted the number from Apple ID. I tried to access applecare online for Australia but they want phone details! Aarggh?! Any further suggestions?

Look - if someone would have just said this we would all be happy... call the 800# and tell them the problem. They will "pull the certificate from the AppleID account". Now here comes the fun:

- If your number is already not registered with Apple "servers" you are pretty much screwed. If you can, tell your 'friends' who are trying to send you text from their iPhone to make sure they have "SMS Messaging" enabled. Now if they do and it still doesn't work, here comes the fun part:

- there's nothing that can be done at this time. This is a "known" issue at Apple and engineering is not even taking any more tickets at this time. The issue is in IOS7 that the phone is 'caching' the previous contact/conversation and still is trying to just use iMessaging. I just got off the phone 2/9 11:00am and the direct response was this is Apple's problem and there is no ETA to resolve if the above steps do not help.

Just another example of Apple not being as clever as their ads make them out...f'ing nightmare. Nice that nobody was bringing this up when making the switch off of IOS to Android (of course not expecting Apple to help here, just surprised that in the store this wasn't talked about). Imagine how many f'ing people have spent HOURS trying to figure this out.

I still have my iphone tried this and it did not work for me.

Thank you!!!! I switched from an iphone to an android and found that I wasn't getting messages from anyone who had an iphone. Turning on the SMS on my husband's iphone worked after spending hours searching and trying everything!!!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!

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power cycle means reboot your phone

Login to support.apple.com

unregister your phone

call apple support (they will not charge you the fee because your phone is no longer registered)

they will deactivate.

took me a total of about 10 minutes for this fix

I just came off the phone with Apple support (the 1-800 # that was provided). I had already de-registered my number after discovering this problem. That seems to be the mistake, should have called Apple first as the number is no longer in the database so basically Apple can't do anything - which I find is absolutely ridiculous. They told me all I could do is text all my iPhone contacts, ask them to remove me from their address book and then make sure SMS messaging is enabled before adding me back in. What an absolute farce! I am getting some messages through but no others, if I had known this was going to happen I would never have switched to an iPhone in the first place. The kady told me on the phone that Apple cares for its customer - yeah right!

Just call the 1-800 number. I did and it took less then three minutes on the phone with a "genius".