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> Apparently Apple phones will silently phone home an SMS as an iMessage heartbeat I recently traveled abroad and bought a local SIM card, and when I first act
by kalleboo 7y ago
> Apparently Apple phones will silently phone home an SMS as an iMessage heartbeat
I recently traveled abroad and bought a local SIM card, and when I first activated it I got a dialog asking if I approved of it sending the iMessage activation SMS. It wasn't silent.
I don't know how new this behavior is
- Scoundreller 7y agoSeems new. I still dunno why Apple made it such a secret. Drove me bonkers when my carrier claimed I sent an SMS but my phone showed I had not. Edit: others reported that there’s a message that said “Your Carrier May charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage” that would still send even if you hit “Cancel”. Seems like a lot of providers don’t charge for this SMS, but for those that do, it can be a costly int’l SMS.