Adding a recovery contact I get an error that my contact needs to use iMessage

Posted on Nov 18, 2022 04:51 PM

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n8rm

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Nov 18, 2022 05:48 PM in response to Chris_Littrell

Me too, and the contact is in my family group and has iMessage turned on.

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Adding a recovery contact I get an error that my contact needs to use iMessage

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