My brother and I both have iphones. When I send anyone else a text, it goes as an iMessage. Everything to my brother goes as an ordinary text message. I have checked his settings and he has iMessage turned on. What am I missing?
iPhone 12
The mystery is solved. There is another setting that tells the phone "where to start new messages". My brother had it set to his Apple ID (email address) instead of his phone number. Once I reset it to his phone number, it works perfectly.
I am not even sure of the point of being able to send a text from an email address.
The mystery is solved. There is another setting that tells the phone "where to start new messages". My brother had it set to his Apple ID (email address) instead of his phone number. Once I reset it to his phone number, it works perfectly.
I am not even sure of the point of being able to send a text from an email address.
hmmm....Interesting. I haven't heard of that happening unless imessage is off. It is a feature of imessage, so honestly, I would contact Apple Support for help. I couldn't imagine it being a TMobile issue.
Good luck & if you don't mind, please post a fix if you find one. I am very curious as to why that is happening.
SteveShapiro wrote:
My brother and I both have iphones. When I send anyone else a text, it goes as an iMessage. Everything to my brother goes as an ordinary text message. I have checked his settings and he has iMessage turned on. What am I missing?
If you can't send or receive messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
So, if I am understanding correctly, when you send your brother a text it shows as a green text bubble and when you send to everyone else it shows as a blue text bubble? Is that right? Do you send texts to any other iphone users and if so, what color is the text bubble to them?
As far as I can tell, I have checked all that. Maybe his Mac has different settings.
Yes, that is correct. I have multiple other friends with iPhones and it always shows as a blue bubble with them. On retrospect, this seems to have happened after we switched to Tmobile.
iMessage going as ordinary text
