force sending text message instead of imessage in ios8
I recently updated my iphone 5s to IOS 8. and I can no long send text message to my friends who I had imessage history with. It is extremely inconvenience when they dont have internet access because they cannot receive my text. I turned off imessage in IOS 7 before but when i updated to IOS8 and it came back up. I tried to turn imessage off but weird thing happened, it doesnt let me send message anymore, instead, it tells me that "iMessage needs to be enable to send this message". How do I force it to send SMS text?
I tried the way to press the blue bubble and wait until it have the "send as SMS text" option come up, BUT nothing comes up except for "copy and more". So i press "More" and only option I had under "More" was delete the messages.
I really need this to be fixed, any help will be appreciated.
iPhone 5s, iOS 8, iMessage