IMessage Quesion

MerkNN wrote:

I know that maybe I wasn't clear. if I'm not on wifi say I'm at the mall I don't want to waste data using message i was asking is there a way to disable iMessage so I'm not using cellular data

You can just temporarily disable cellular data altogether. But that's about it unless you want to sign in and out of iMessage every time you're not on a wifi network.

iMessage requires an internet connection. So if not connected to a wifi node, it must use cellular data. There is no way to use Apple's internet messaging service on a cellular connection and not use a data connection. All iMessage traffic is sent as internet data. Only cellular carrier based SMS texts do not use data as they are sent over your cell phones voice channel.

You could disable cellular data altogether, which will r strict iMessage to only working when on wifi. But otherwise, to use iMessage over a cellular connection, you must use data, as it is wholly an internet data service.

As mentioned, you can either turn Cellular Data off completely, or turn off iMessage in Settings->Messages->iMessage.

This will make it so the Messages App only uses SMS messaging.

oops too late.

Check out this post Re: Is it possible to use iMessage only over WiFi, and not use cellular data?