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Re: iMessage purgatory

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Post by VLM »

Is the destruction of SMS as a technology necessarily bad? I don't think so. Like ripping off a band aid, get it over with and move on.

Re: iMessage purgatory

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Post by uptown »

This site has a solution:

1. Reset your Apple ID password and do not log back in on your device(s)

2. Send a text to 48369 with the word STOP

It won’t happen immediately but over a 12-hour period, you should start receiving texts on your Android device that are sent from iPhone users.

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/how-to-keep-receiving-sm...

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Post by akerl_ »

VLM wrote: post #2

Is the destruction of SMS as a technology necessarily bad? I don't think so. Like ripping off a band aid, get it over with and move on.

This isn't about destroying SMS, it's about Apple's OS blocking communication to a number because they make permanent assumptions about the device at the other end.

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Post by boqeh »

I had this same issue. Apple wouldn't help me, unfortunately. If I recall correctly, I had to disassociate iMessage from my AppleID completely, which seems to have worked. Although I still can't be sure.

I have a weird feeling the messages still aren't going through and a lot of my friends think I'm being an asshole.

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Post by JimmaDaRustla »

Sounds like it would be easier to find new friends.

Seriously though, iMessage should have some sort of interoperability on other devices, even if its just a web interface you can log into to make configuration changes, including the deletion/deactivation of an account associated with a mobile phone number.

Edit: Or even monitoring iPhones associated with a number and disabling iMessage if said phone is no longer online with that number? Could possibly even forward unread messages, etc.

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Post by bradly »

VLM wrote: post #2

Is the destruction of SMS as a technology necessarily bad? I don't think so. Like ripping off a band aid, get it over with and move on.

This article is not arguing against a replacement of current SMS technology. It addresses specific issues iMessage users are experiencing and the fact that it is controller by a single corporate entity.

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Post by saurik »

What is interesting to me always is that my experience trying to send iMessages to people is usually the opposite: if someone's phone runs out of batteries or they start a phone call (on CDMA, which can't do voice and data simultaneously) I nearly instantly am forced to send them text messages. I also have found the "Delivered" notices very reliable: AFAIK they require a device to actually receive the message. Note however that it is "a device": if you have iMessage associated with another random device, it might be receiving your messages for you; I would be very interested in knowing if these people cataloged all devices they have from Apple (including Macs) and logged out of all of them. (It could, of course, just be a bug; but it at least doesn't seem to be some fundamental aspect of the design that it permanently hijacks messages.)
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