Text messaging help please

"shop-teacher" (shop-teacher)
12/12/2017 at 20:11 • Filed to: Help!

I just switched back from an iPhone to Android. When my wife sends me texts from her iPhone, they were going to my old phone. Consulting the internet, I turned iMessage off of my old phone. Now I don’t get any texts from her at all. Any thoughts OPPO?

DISCUSSION (22)

CaptDale - is secretly British > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:18

Go back in time and stop yourself from buying an iPhone

E90M3 > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:20

I believe you have to unregister for imessage.

Edit: This should help.

cbell04 > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:22

Kinja'd!!!

Mercedes Streeter > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:22

It’s rough getting iMessage to stop intercepting inbound texts. I think even removing your iPhone from your Apple account won’t work, but give it a try anyway.

Also try having your wife delete the text thread and/or your contact, then re-add.

I had an iPhone SE for all of two weeks or so before I went back to Android for a little bit. It took a week before iPhone users were able to text me again.

JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:22

is she actually texting your number?

Mercedes Streeter > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:22

Also, I need to meet your wife! <3

Echo51 > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:23

Like E90m3 mentioned, https://support.apple.com/en-ca/HT203042

Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 20:25

If she’s using an iPhone too, her phone may still think it’s supposed to be iMessaging you: it’s easy to mix up sending to an Apple ID with sending to a phone number as these are interchangeable for iMessage. Get her to make sure she’s sending to your phone number

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > E90M3
12/12/2017 at 20:49

^ Correct Answer ^

shop-teacher > E90M3
12/12/2017 at 21:13

Already did that. It stopped them from going to my old phone. Now they just go into the ether.

shop-teacher > Distraxi's idea of perfection is a Jagroen
12/12/2017 at 21:14

She is. I tried it from her phone too, just to be sure.

shop-teacher > Echo51
12/12/2017 at 21:14

Didn’t work.

shop-teacher > Mercedes Streeter
12/12/2017 at 21:14

Yes. Yes you do :)

E90M3 > shop-teacher
12/12/2017 at 21:15

Did you unregister the number online?

Also does it say delivered on your wife’s phone? If they’re not getting delivered, you should be able to send them as text messages. After that the iphone should try and send them as text messages.

shop-teacher > JawzX2, Boost Addict. 1.6t, 2.7tt, 4.2t
12/12/2017 at 21:15

Yep

shop-teacher > CaptDale - is secretly British
12/12/2017 at 21:16

If only.

The phone was fine. Never cared for iOS though.