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Where I live nobody uses iMessage so this sounds like a good workaround :P (Yes yes I know it’s been patched already...)
by kabwj 7y ago
Where I live nobody uses iMessage so this sounds like a good workaround :P (Yes yes I know it’s been patched already...)
- samoa42 7y agosecond that. half of my friends using iphones dont enable imessage. thus penetration (in my circles) is way too low to make it useful.
- jeromegv 7y agoConsidering it's enabled by default, i'm really curious why you would want to do that.
- kabwj 7y agoIt costs money to activate it (or so says the pop up that appears when you set up an iPhone). Also if I switch to Android I don’t have to worry about disabling iMessage before. (Not that anybody in my country would ever send an iMessage or an SMS though...)
- plttn 7y agoiMessage doesn't even warrant a dialog in OOBE on iPhone IIRC. Not sure what pop-up you're talking about then.
- stiGGG 7y agoI've seen this popup, too. It will send a silent SMS from your device on activation. Depending on your plan this could cost you money.
- eigenvector 7y agoAnd depending on where you are, it may be an international SMS, which will either cost a lot or just fail silently.
- kabwj 7y agohttps://macreports.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/your-carrier-charge-imessage.jpg https://macreports.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/your-carri... This shows up when you insert a sim that’s not activated with iMessage. Maybe it depends on your region. In my country you really have to pay because the activation process sends an sms message.
- scarface74 7y agoiMessage uses your regular data plan. You would have to pay for data either way.
- kabwj 7y agoiMessage activation sends an international sms to the uk. Which is pretty costly.
- overcast 7y agoI never understood this, why would anyone want to deal with ANOTHER app to do messaging? iMessage is built in, integrated, and has end to end encryption. What more functionality are people clamoring for?
- ceejayoz 7y ago> What more functionality are people clamoring for? All those features in a market where lots of people you'd be chatting with are on Android, I'd suspect.
- overcast 7y agoSee samoa below, half of his friends using iphone disable imessage??? It's nonsensical. iMessage works wonderfully.
- ceejayoz 7y agoIn the early days, iMessage had some availability issues - the only way you could get/send texts for a couple hours would be to switch it off so they'd send as SMS. There was also a bug that allowed a malicious message to crash phones sometime last year where the recommended fix was turning off iMessage (similar to this one). Some folks probably don't remember to turn it back on after these incidents.
- opencl 7y agoPeople want to use one app to do all their messaging. iMessage is not that app unless 100% of the people you message use iPhones. For a lot of people Whatsapp or Telegram can be that app.
- scarface74 7y agoWell seeing that iMessage integrates with SMS, it’s not just for iMessage users. While there are a lot of reasons not to want to use iMessage but only being able to talk to other iOS users isn’t one.
- pier25 7y agoSame here. Most iPhone users around me use Whatsapp. I don't live in the US.