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Fact Check: Apple does not hijack or intercept SMS messages. Apple respects the delivery label(s) you put on your Apple Messages. The messages people say are

Fact Check: Apple does not hijack or intercept SMS messages. Apple respects the delivery label(s) you put on your Apple Messages. The messages people say are hijacked are from other Messages users, sent to an individual's Messages label that happens to look like their phone number. This label can also look like an arbitrary email address of choice that does not even have to be your Apple ID. Anyone using SMS can SMS your number on your new phone, since SMS is not being hijacked, and Apple is not intercepting SMS to do anything with it. If you don't want Apple friends using that label that looks like your number to reach your remaining Apple devices (a normal use case!), then remove the label yourself before ditching your iPhone: - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201349 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201349 - https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042 Or, remove it yourself after: - https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/ https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

makeitdouble 5y ago
> an individual's Messages label that happens to look like their phone number. So it looks like your phone number, but isn't. Have fun explaining that to any random trying to message you at your phone number. > then remove the label yourself before ditching your iPhone First: thanks for the link, I genuinely didn't know Apple added a service to deregister. It took them so long. Then, you still have a flurry of issues if you want to keep iMessage for some people on your iPad or Mac for instance, but switch to an android phone. You can deregister the number, but contacts that were using your email in iMessage (so "the label that looks like your email but actually isn't") and try to just send a message to "you" (your name in the "To" field) will send an iMessage when every party involved really wants an SMS to be sent. I think you'll blame the user for not understanding the situation, that what worked before won't anymore, and they should either realize your phone is not on the "blue bubbles" anymore and they need to force "green bubbles" even if they're sending messages to seemingly the same person using the same app. And they propably will need to do that at every message until they realize they need to recreate a new thread, explicitely with your phone number this time.
- kergonath 5y ago
  > It took them so long. That’s disingenuous. It took you so long to realise they were doing it.

makeitdouble 5y ago

> an individual's Messages label that happens to look like their phone number. So it looks like your phone number, but isn't. Have fun explaining that to any random trying to message you at your phone number. > then remove the label yourself before ditching your iPhone First: thanks for the link, I genuinely didn't know Apple added a service to deregister. It took them so long. Then, you still have a flurry of issues if you want to keep iMessage for some people on your iPad or Mac for instance, but switch to an android phone. You can deregister the number, but contacts that were using your email in iMessage (so "the label that looks like your email but actually isn't") and try to just send a message to "you" (your name in the "To" field) will send an iMessage when every party involved really wants an SMS to be sent. I think you'll blame the user for not understanding the situation, that what worked before won't anymore, and they should either realize your phone is not on the "blue bubbles" anymore and they need to force "green bubbles" even if they're sending messages to seemingly the same person using the same app. And they propably will need to do that at every message until they realize they need to recreate a new thread, explicitely with your phone number this time.

kergonath 5y ago
> It took them so long. That’s disingenuous. It took you so long to realise they were doing it.