momto4kiddos
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Post by momto4kiddos on Aug 17, 2014 15:13:39 GMT
Weird issue... I have an iphone and text sister who HAD an iphone. She changed phones to a non-iphone and now I have trouble sending messages as it sends to her "iphone".
I went in and redid her [HASH] so it doesn't read iphone anymore. But I still had to manually change the message to text this morning (of course I forgot to do that at first so the message was delayed due to that.)
Wasn't anything important, but it's annoying to have to manually change it all the time. Why does this happen and is there a way to fix it?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2014 15:20:27 GMT
I'm a Galaxy girl, so I don't know much about iPhones, but have you tried deleting the text message thread with her and starting a new one? Maybe there's some kind of auto-complete feature that is pulling up the old iPhone entry.
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Post by gonewalkabout on Aug 17, 2014 15:27:32 GMT
Just clarifying, you went to settings-> messages -> turn off iMessage?
Had to do that myself a few days ago, dd went to android.
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momto4kiddos
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Post by momto4kiddos on Aug 17, 2014 15:31:21 GMT
Just clarifying, you went to settings-> messages -> turn off iMessage? Had to do that myself a few days ago, dd went to android. No I went to my contacts and her # was listed as an iphone. So I deleted and re-entered the # hoping that would clear it up. Won't your way shut imessage off for me for everyone? |
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YooHoot
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Post by YooHoot on Aug 17, 2014 15:33:05 GMT
Have you tried restarting you phone? Sometimes I can change things but until I restart, it doesn't fix the issue.
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Post by fkawitchypea on Aug 17, 2014 15:33:56 GMT
You have to go to settings and select the option to send as an SMS (or whatever that is, I don't have my phone in front of me) if iMessage is not available. This happened to me too a few months ago.
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Post by Outspoken on Aug 17, 2014 15:37:30 GMT
Well, it happens because your iPhones brain recognizes that number as being an iPhone (from before). It will retrain it's brain but it takes a couple of messages.
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Post by gonewalkabout on Aug 17, 2014 15:38:04 GMT
Just clarifying, you went to settings-> messages -> turn off iMessage? Had to do that myself a few days ago, dd went to android. No I went to my contacts and her # was listed as an iphone. So I deleted and re-entered the # hoping that would clear it up. Won't your way shut imessage off for me for everyone? Yeah it does, unfortunately. I'm searching how to do it myself actually. Since you posed the question it got me thinking about how to do it also. |
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Post by scrappychick on Aug 17, 2014 15:40:10 GMT
Have your sister go into the settings on her iPhone and turn off imessage.
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Post by Crazyhare on Aug 17, 2014 15:42:41 GMT
Have your sister go into the settings on her iPhone and turn off imessage. The sister doesn't have an iPhone anymore. |
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Post by eebud on Aug 17, 2014 15:43:23 GMT
A friend of mine was telling me that this happened to her with some people she texts with after she went from iPhone to Galaxy. I think the person with the iPhone turned off her iMessage, my friend sent her a text and then she turned iMessage back on and all worked ok again. But, like fkawitchypea was saying, it might be that the iPhone user needs to turn on Send as SMS in the Messages options. This will send as SMS when iMessage is unavailable.
If none of this works, let me know and I will ask my friend again exactly what she did to get things working again.
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Post by scrappychick on Aug 17, 2014 16:00:20 GMT
I'm assuming she still has it in her possession. It now works as an iPod. If she turns the imessaging off on that, then the texts will go to her phone.
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momto4kiddos
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Post by momto4kiddos on Aug 17, 2014 16:19:26 GMT
I'm assuming she still has it in her possession. It now works as an iPod. If she turns the imessaging off on that, then the texts will go to her phone. Just sent her this advice. I have been texting her today and as Spiffie mentioned it seems my phone might be retraining and figuring it out. |
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cab919
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Post by cab919 on Aug 17, 2014 21:25:48 GMT
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Dani-Mani
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Post by Dani-Mani on Aug 17, 2014 21:40:53 GMT
My friend had this issue when she went from an iPhone to a Droid. Verizon eventually had to fix the issue. (or maybe Apple?) I'd have her call her provide or Apple. This is a common problem.
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Post by joylynaroundthebnd on Aug 17, 2014 22:17:22 GMT
In your contacts you can change the description of her phone number from iPhone to mobile. I had to do that for a friend and it worked great.
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