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Text messages suddenly turned green

me and my friend have been messaging using imessage so all our texts were blue. but then suddenly one day they start sending in green? we both tried to turn our imessage off and then back on but to no luck it still doesn’t work. the picture attached is the point where it goes from blue to green. ALSO, when we send each other imessage games, it sends to the other person as a picture.User uploaded file

Posted on Jul 31, 2018 5:07 PM

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Posted on Jul 31, 2018 5:29 PM

When iMessage is unavailable texts will send as an SMS. SMS = green.

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Aug 2, 2018 12:13 AM in response to ftzyx

The "picture" is a graphical hyperlink. Messages does that by design. It's functionally identical to the non-graphical address. It should open in the applicable app when you tap on it. I believe there's a way to copy and paste the non-graphical address but that would be a waste of time if not counter-productive.


When Internet isn't fully iMessage-available and you go to send a message that would otherwise go as iMessage, Messages will turn around and send the message as SMS or MMS "Text Message" as long as Send as SMS is enabled in Messages settings on the iPhone.


Your VPN provider probably has iMessage blocked and you're unlikely to get the provider to unblock it. If you have Internet access at all via the VPN, that would be via proxy settings wherein iMessage would be blocked. If Send All Traffic is enabled in the VPN settings, then you would have to disconnect from the VPN to use iMessage via Wi-Fi or cellular data. Otherwise, disabling that setting might allow iMessage to divert to 4G data even while you're connected to the VPN. If the VPN appears by virtue of a configuration profile from the provider, you could try to get the settings from the provider and delete the config profile and set up the VPN yourself with Send All Traffic disabled.

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