iphone texts to flip phone received blank?

After updating my iPhone 7 with IOS 11, when I send a text message to a friend with a flip phone that has more than 2 lines of text they can not receive it. They get just a blank message. Before IOS 11 it would break the message into two messages on their end. Any ideas?

iPhone 7, iOS 11

Posted on Sep 29, 2017 8:56 AM

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Oct 3, 2017 5:04 PM in response to acarrier431

I had a similar issue with someone too. upgraded my iphone5s to ios 11 and some text messages sent to a friend showed as totally empty to them.


one workaround was to disable iMessage in the settings for the messages app, though it's annoying if you use iMessage features with others.


worth noting that not all texts sent with iMessage were blank. I'm taking a guess but I think any message that might have special iMessage functionality (such as times auto linking to calendar eg stuff like "friday night") are the types of messages that may have problems.

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