Appleinfo: Re: [apple-iphone] Group chatting with a non iphone user

lundi 13 juillet 2015

Re: [apple-iphone] Group chatting with a non iphone user

I agree. I've had this with my kids messing about with iMessage settings. Not hard to see how it could get confused

From: "Brent whodo678@yahoo.com [apple-iphone]" <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com>
To: apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, 14 July 2015 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [apple-iphone] Group chatting with a non iphone user

Could it be that the 3rd sister occasionally uses the iPad in the conversation & that us what switches the exchange over to iMessage?

I'll bet either sis 1 or sis 2, or both, has sis 3 in their contacts with both phone # & aol.com. At that point iMessage would go, "Ah, I can switch back to iMessage from SMS." At that point it feels it no longer has to send SMS to a non-Apple device.

Brent

Sent from my iPhone, please excuse any brevity.

On Jul 13, 2015, at 8:28 AM, Jay Abraham jaygroups@abrahamgroup.net [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Hi Otto,

Both iPhones are set up correctly, with iMessage on and Send as SMS on. I'm not sure you guys are understanding the issue.

The conversations initially start as SMS with the messages addresses in green connotating an SMS group chat. Eventually a message appears in each of the iPhone users text inbox within the conversation saying the other iPhone user added the Android sister to the conversation using iMessage. Neither sister has done anything and the Android sister obviously can't be communicated with over iMessage.

If they delete the conversations and start a new text group, it will work for a few more texts. The 3rd sister has never had an iPhone so it isn't the issue of iMessage servers mistakenly identifying her as still on iMessage. She does have an iPad but that only has her set up as receiving iMessages at her e-mail address (@aol).

Somehow the conversation corrupts from an SMS text to iMessage with no known user intervention.

Jay

On Jul 12, 2015, at 5:33 PM, Otto Nikolaus otto.nikolaus@googlemail.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

On 12 July 2015 at 22:32, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [apple-iphone] <apple-iphone@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Then one or more iPhones is set up incorrectly.

Settings — Messages

"Send as SMS" should be set to ON.

(The explanatory line in Settings says, "Send as SMS when iMessage is unavailable.." And when you are attempting to sent to an Android phooe, iMessage is unavailable.)

Has that changed? It used to be iMessage > off/on, rather than SMS > off/on.

Otto