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-Some of my contacts don't receive my iMessages. -Some of my iMessages won't send (interent connection was down due to Hurricanr Irma) -If I turn off iMessages, i don't receive iMessages -There is no obvious, easy way to choose text or iMessage -Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrt
iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 10.3.2
I have SSM texting through my provider and have been using it, very successfully, for years. How can I choose, at the time of messaging, which option to use? Some of my iPhone friends have turned off imessaging. Therefore they do not my receive my iMessages even though my phone shows the message as "delivered.". This is unnecessarily difficult!
I have SSM texting through my provider and have been using it, very successfully, for years. How can I choose, at the time of messaging, which option to use? Some of my iPhone friends have turned off imessaging. Therefore they do not my receive my iMessages even though my phone shows the message as "delivered.". This is unnecessarily difficult!
Thanks for trying to help. Neither I nor my friends know the message settings on their iphones. Mostly, we are senior citizens who just want to keep in touch. The hurricane did cause an additional layer of frustration, but my internet/wifi is restored. After its restoration, I replied (iMessager was on) to a friend's text reporting on her son's surgery. My phone showed the message was delivered. HOWEVER, my friend called an hour later because she had not received my response. Plan to turn off iMessaging. I certainly won't be paying $1,000 for even more aggravation.
Again, thank you for trying to help.
You cannot receive iMessages if it is not enabled. iMessages is an Apple app that works over WiFi. If you turn it off, you can't send or receive iMessages. You can send and receive standard SMS messages via your wireless cellular provider assuming that you have a plan that includes texting.
You cannot pick and choose on your own. On your phone, if you have Settings>Messages>Send as SMS enabled, the texts should go through to them as SMS messages if WiFi is not available for iMessages. Every once in a while, and iMessage can go through as SMS if you don't have a good WiFi connection on both ends.
Are these people set up to receive SMS messages on their end. Or could all of this be due to the Hurricane as you seemed to allude to?
To be honest, if you iMessage was activated and it displayed as Delivered, the problem was probably on your friend's end. The Delivered tag shows that the message went from your phone the iMessage server and to a number registered to iMessage. I'm guessing that since the problems encountered with power and cellular services, it has created havoc with many users.
One thing you can do to send a text message - immediately after you send an iMessage (blue color) even before it is delivered, try long pressing it, and select send as a text message, that way, the message would be definitely sent to the receiver even though his iMessage sometimes doesn't work due signal problems. Note that both of your carriers would charge accordingly for the text messages depending upon your current carrier plans.
I am also happy to hear that you came through the Hurricane relatively unscathed.
I have a good friend who decided to high tail it back to Pittsburgh to escape the weather from his home in Fort Meyers. From what he told me, all things considered he fared OK as well.
Good point. Or maybe it went to her iPad and/or computer and not her phone she had with her. Thanks.
You're very welcome. I hope that you fared well with the hurricane. Our thoughts and prayers have been with everyone affected.
Thanks for your concern. We in Tallahassee were very lucky. I just had tree trash, 24 hrs without power, and 2 1/2 days without cable/internet. Small inconveniences.
Bless you. My son's wife's sister and her husband live in Fort Lauderdale, however they did move to somewhere supposedly safe. As I understand, they just had to deal with some loss of power.
Demo wrote:
iMessages is an Apple app that works over WiFi.
and also over cell data if you have a data plan.
If I turn off iMessages can I still receive an iMessage?
