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Whenever I am texting something longer than maybe a sentence, it will show up to the receiving side as a HUGE block of Chinese characters. I have never received any Chinese texts or any strange phone numbers, but it happens both on my iphone and Mac (iMessages are synced to each other). Is anybody else having this problem or have a solution?
iPhone 6s Plus, null
I'm experiencing the same thing. I use a MB Pro with OS X 10.12 and an iPhone 6s with iOS 10.0.2 (14A456) interchangeably with Messages synched via iCloud and when I send longer messages to my friend with a Samsung s4 my texts are like this (copied and sent back to me):
At first I thought that there might be an issue with my MB Pro occasionally being used with Simplified Chinese characters. So I disabled all but English in System Preferences > Language & Region > Preferred languages: but that didn't make a difference. Then I tried making sure that my iPhone was using the correct character set, so I went to Settings > General > Keyboards and made sure only English was active. I've also enabled Two-Factor Authentication by going to Settings > iCloud > (click on) Apple ID > Password & Security > Two-Factor Security just to ensure I wasn't dealing with a hack or something. I've also quit iMessages (or Messages, the two seem to be used interchangeably), gone into airplane mode, restarted my phone, disabled airplane mode, and rebooted Messages.
None of this seems to have made a difference.
I'm guessing it might have to do with the text encoding or something. Maybe it is a malware issue, who knows?
It seems that this could be a bug since several of us are experiencing this and it just started happening around the same time (after upgrading the OS's). So, APPLE, a bug-fix is needed ASAP or at least a work around until you get around to it, please.
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UPDATE: emoji use doesn't seem to matter...it happens with or without emojis. Also, the length of the message isn't always a determining factor. I send a multi-paragraph message to me friend earlier today and it went through fine. Then I sent one a third or less of that size and it was in Chinese.
This makes me wonder if the cellular carrier has anything to do with it. Mine is AT&T. I checked the AT&T forums and they say this is a known problem: https://forums.att.com/t5/Windows-Phone/messages-arriving-on-Chinese-characters/ m-p/4953003
I hope this helps.
I'm on an iPhone 6 running iOS 10.0.2 (14A456) and on AT&T. I would have to look through my texts to see if I used emojis in the texts that were affected.
Curious at we all have in common.
And here's a lengthy thread describing the issue in Google forums: https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/DxlhWSLvcEA
Thanks for the info! I'm on AT&T too.
im on this post too. it has great info about whats going on.
I Am having the exact same problem
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Who is your carrier? It seems that AT&T is the problem. Don't use emoji's until they resolve it and shorten your texts.
Yes AT&T
from the link above we have figured out it's 99.9% an ATT issue. ATT admit to it and have no fix yet. its not just emoji and text length, punctuation like apostrophes can cause it.
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I'm having same issue as well....when texting from my iphone6 to an adroid and i have AT&T.
Good luck getting in touch with them....
I have to call? Do they walk you thru it?
It's something att has to do, not you. You do use them as your carrier, right?
Long text messages turn into Chinese?
