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Ah, this sounds familiar. I recently got a new cell phone number, using an Android phone. Some days later, a few of my fellow carpoolers told me after texting
by CatMtKing 13y ago
Ah, this sounds familiar. I recently got a new cell phone number, using an Android phone. Some days later, a few of my fellow carpoolers told me after texting me that they were getting replies from someone else telling them they had the wrong number! I was stumped, until we noticed all the people who were failing to text me were using iPhones.
I texted my own number using one of their phones and asked the mystery recipient if she recognized my phone number. Apparently, it was her old number: still attached to her iMessage account. She removed it, but weeks later, I still don't receive any texts from iPhone users. Guess I'll have to check in with AT&T/Apple about it.
tl;dr: This bug can affect you even if you have never owned an iPhone.
- PeterisP 13y agoThis seems a big issue then - permanently caching phone numbers is dangerous; around here some 55% users are on prepaid simcards, and thoae numbers often get recycled, i.e., given out to someone else after it stops being used and teen-25 audiences tend to churn through many numbers (no idea on why they do so, i've had a single number forever, but that's how it is) A few years earlier almost all of them wouldn't be on iOS, but now they are often using iPhones (sometimes old handmedowns) on those disposable numbers, so if it breaks messaging when changing numbers... Then that will be a problem for many people.