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I'm experiencing the same problem, I've tried: 1) Turning off iMessage on old iPhone 2) Removing phone number from my Apple account 3) Friends removing my cell
by rdoherty 13y ago
I'm experiencing the same problem, I've tried:
1) Turning off iMessage on old iPhone
2) Removing phone number from my Apple account
3) Friends removing my cell # from their address books
and a few other random things. Nothing has fixed it. The only way a friend with an iOS device can SMS me is if they turn of iMessage. This is a pretty huge bug on Apple's part.
- Nicholas_C 13y agoSame here. Incredibly frustrating. Did you unregister your device(s)? After doing this I think people's iPhones know your number isn't an iPhone anymore and after it fails to send the iMessage it sends it as a regular message. The below link helped me: http://support.vodafone.com.au/articles/FAQ/How-to-deactivate-iMessage-if-you-re-switching-from-iPhone http://support.vodafone.com.au/articles/FAQ/How-to-deactivat... I'm still having occasional problems with not getting texts but for the most part it's fixed.
- rdoherty 13y agoYup, I unregistered my devices too. Will double check and follow that link's instructions.
- blowski 13y agoFrom Apple's perspective, it sounds like quite a handy bug. Since I've been an iPhone user for 5 years, this bug makes me locked in to the iOS environment. Given that they have established a market-distorting barrier to exit, they should be ordered by a court to fix this issue.
- TWAndrews 13y agoThat's odd. I made the same switch, but when I turned off iMessage on my old phone, texts from contacts with iPhones are sent correctly to my new android device.