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Um, how is it an interoperability fiasco? If I message someone who doesn't have iMessage it just falls back to SMS.
by danbee 13y ago
Um, how is it an interoperability fiasco? If I message someone who doesn't have iMessage it just falls back to SMS.
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoTry being a user of iMessage then switching to another phone without disabling iMessage in advance. Any Apple user who messaged you through iMessage will continue to send messages to a dead iMessage account.
- weiran 13y agoHow is Apple magically supposed to know that you've switched phones?
- ChikkaChiChi 13y agoI think the point is that it shouldn't try taking control of my SMS.
- vvhn 13y agouhhhh.... iMessage is opt-in and isn't enabled until you actively sign up for it in settings. You don't want it taking over your SMS & MMS - don't opt-in to it.
- garblegarble 13y agoI'm pretty sure I did this recently - it sent as an iMessage and after a minute or two when the message still hadn't been delivered to the destination phone it fell back on SMS (I'm assuming the iMessage registration times out after a while, though?)
- nwienert 13y agoI can confirm this happened to me a year ago and it was extremely frustrating. I had to call back and forth from Apple/AT&T over the period of two days before they figured out what was happening and disabled it. Missed tons of messages.