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How do you know that they aren’t using iMessage to only send iMessages?
by mosselman 5y ago
How do you know that they aren’t using iMessage to only send iMessages?
- NoPicklez 5y agoI don't but my point still stands, Signal and Messenger are software agnostic (to a degree). There is every possibility that when I send a person an SMS, it will fall outside of the iMessage ecosystem. If I send someone a message on Signal or Messenger, it will only come through to them via that platform. With iMessage you cannot guarantee that.
- caf 5y agoI've been using Signal as an SMS app replacement since it was called TextSecure, and it still works that way - if you send to a non-Signal-registered number, it sends over ordinary SMS (with a visual indicator to let you know), very similar to the way iMessage works.
- NoPicklez 5y agoDifference being that Apple doesn't have a visual indicator before you send the message to let you know you're sending it to a non-iMessage device. Edit: I was completely wrong, iMessage does do that, my apologies.
- pfranz 5y agoI haven't paid too much attention, but that hasn't been my experience. As recently as today when I type in a new number the text in the window defaults to green (a text message), after a brief lag it turns to blue when it validates it as an iMessage account. This all happens before you enter any text in the body.
- fedorareis 5y agoSure it does. Apple shows the phone number/contact name and the send arrow in green if it is being sent to a non-iMessage recipient.