> 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 r

> 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.