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> Heck even the default apps are hard on her. iMessage keeps getting moved to the home page and SMS to the 2nd page. So she sees the blue bubble and uses that t
by mietek 6y ago
> Heck even the default apps are hard on her. iMessage keeps getting moved to the home page and SMS to the 2nd page. So she sees the blue bubble and uses that to message us, even tho we are sending SMS. She needs to use the green bubble from the second page.
I agree with your overall point, but I am puzzled by this detail. There is no separate app for sending SMS on iOS. The Messages app handles both the iMessage protocol and SMS, has a green bubble icon, and by default, appears in the four-item dock at the bottom of every page of the home screen. Also, app icons don’t move between pages on their own.
- kiwijamo 6y agoI am also puzzled. Apple's iMessage/SMS app (there is only one app that does both as you say) will only send iMessage messages to numbers that have iMessage enabled (I know there are some edge cases but these are typically only for those who have recently migrated away from Apple). iMessage will always default to SMS (and is usually the only option) for numbers that have no iMessage enabled. Not an Apple fanboy but how they have set up iMessage/SMS actually is pretty good.
- hedora 6y agoIt sounds like she’s using signal and iMessage/sms maybe? Signal has a blue bubble app icon, and iMessage has a green one.
- grogenaut 6y agoShe just sees my name and sends messages to my non-existent iphone instead of to SMS. I don't really know, not having a usable iphone and only a mac makes me not an expert.