iMessage Delivery Question When Not Connected to Wi-Fi

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iMessage Delivery Question When Not Connected to Wi-Fi

So, here is my question. My friend has an iPhone 6S on T-Mobile, but their account is currently suspended for non-payment. As a result, they can only use the device for iMessages when they are connected to Wi-Fi. Keep that in mind, their account is suspended so text messages will not default to SMS since her carrier has suspended the account. When I send texts to their phone number it immediately says "delivered", but I know they have not received them because once again they can only send and receive when connected over Wi-Fi and they do not have continuous access to a Wi-Fi connection. So, several questions.

1. I assume my phone says delivered because the iMessage has been accepted by the Apple server but not neccesarily actually appearing on the recipient's device yet?

2. How long will Apple attempt to deliver the iMessage while their phone is not connected?

3. If Apple will attempt to deliver indefinitely then I assume the message will appear once the device connects to Wi-Fi regardless of how long they were not connected?

4. If the Apple server does delete the message since it could not be delivered will I get a notice back saying undeliverable?

Again, keep in mind, their is no carrier option for delivery of their texts.

Thanks.

iPhone 6s

Posted on Mar 23, 2016 7:36 AM

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gcyrust1531 Author

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Mar 23, 2016 12:34 PM in response to gcyrust1531

So, I contacted Apple chat and answered some of my questions.

1. The delivered message simply means the Apple server has accepted the message. It does not necessarily mean the message has actually been delivered to the device.

2. It is not public information, and the Apple rep couldn't tell me, how long Apple attempts to actually deliver messages to devices accepted by their server.

3. I guess this depends on the official answer to previous question. Keep in mind, this is different than traditional SMS messages.

4. According to Apple, there would be NO error message if the message was not actually delivered.

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Mar 23, 2016 12:48 PM in response to gcyrust1531

gcyrust1531 wrote:

So, I contacted Apple chat and answered some of my questions.

1. The delivered message simply means the Apple server has accepted the message. It does not necessarily mean the message has actually been delivered to the device. .

I do not believe this is correct information.

You may be seeing the delivered indicator because your friend has another device using iMessages with the same Apple ID (such as a Mac).

4. According to Apple, there would be NO error message if the message was not actually delivered.

I know that is incorrect. If the iMessage fails, you get a notice saying so. It happened to me twice today.

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gcyrust1531 Author

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Mar 23, 2016 12:51 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Thanks, so you are saying the official Apple Chat rep was wrong? If so, can you formally reply to all of my questions?

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gcyrust1531 Author

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Mar 23, 2016 1:03 PM in response to IdrisSeabright

Also how do you know the error message was in regard to not being able to be delivered to the phone and not an error in regard to being accepted by the Apple server?

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