{"id":16445,"date":"2016-11-18T15:54:29","date_gmt":"2016-11-18T20:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=16445"},"modified":"2016-11-18T16:48:01","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T21:48:01","slug":"sending-a-text-message-instead-of-an-imessage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/18\/sending-a-text-message-instead-of-an-imessage\/","title":{"rendered":"Sending a Text Message Instead of an iMessage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve been wanting to do this recently, due to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mjtsai\/status\/799669659200954368\">problems<\/a> where Messages says that an iMessage was delivered, when in fact it never arrived. I&rsquo;ve been having problems like this on and off since iMessage was introduced, yet as far as I know SMS has never let me down. You <a href=\"http:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2012\/11\/18\/send-imessage-as-text-message\/\">used to be able to<\/a> tap and hold on a message bubble and choose &ldquo;Send as Text Message,&rdquo; but that feature seems to have been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.igeeksblog.com\/how-to-force-a-message-to-be-sent-as-sms-and-not-imessage-in-ios-7\/\">Send as SMS<\/a> setting lets the phone automatically fall back to SMS when iMessage is not available. However, that doesn&rsquo;t help in my situation where iMessage is available but simply doesn&rsquo;t work.<\/p>\n<p>I found <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/q\/253015\/2121\">several<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/apple.stackexchange.com\/q\/254251\/2121\">forum<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.applevis.com\/forum\/ios-ios-app-discussion\/converting-imessage-text-message-ios931\">posts<\/a>, but the only solution seems to be to temporarily turn off iMessage, which seems like a terrible solution because it means that you won&rsquo;t be able to receive iMessages from anyone else in the interim. Worse, the iMessages will look to the sender like they got delivered because they&rsquo;ll still go to your Mac or iPad.<\/p>\n<p>Ideally, there would be a way to simply start a new conversation using SMS even though there is an iMessage account associated with that phone number.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&rsquo;ve been wanting to do this recently, due to problems where Messages says that an iMessage was delivered, when in fact it never arrived. I&rsquo;ve been having problems like this on and off since iMessage was introduced, yet as far as I know SMS has never let me down. You used to be able to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1143,131,140,31,1380,85,1393],"class_list":["post-16445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-software-quality","tag-bug","tag-imessage","tag-ios","tag-ios-10","tag-iphone","tag-short-message-service-sms"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16448,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16445\/revisions\/16448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}