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Only if you have another iOS/macOS device receiving them at home. If you don't receive iMessages it will automatically fall back to SMS (unless the sender spec

• rezonant 3y ago
  If you register your phone number to iMessage without any other iMessage receivers and then turn off that iPhone, messages sent for an extended period of time will continue to be queued for delivery in iMessage. In order for other iPhones to start falling back to SMS you need to manually deregister. In Google Messages and other RCS clients, by default it will give you a "Message not delivered" message indicating your message never made it to the handset. You then have an opportunity to manually resend that pending message via SMS. You can disable this behavior though if you prefer to use the two-check delivery receipt information to determine when your message hits the handset. While neither mechanism is perfect, the RCS model treats lack of delivery to the handset as a potential problem, whereas iMessage ignores it. iMessage assumes your phone is just off, which for most people you are texting, is an unlikely scenario. For users who actively turn off their device for certain activities, you have the opportunity to just wait, and when it arrives the error will clear, or send it as SMS and it will pick it up when the handset does turn on. But while the message is in flight for any length of time, the UI treats it as "something is wrong". This means whenever you return to the conversation to check for a response or text more, you'll be reminded strongly that the message never arrived for them. And you always have the opportunity to resend on SMS during that time.