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iPhone text msg.

cameraguy — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:28:20 GMT

My wife ran out of her 12 GB of data ( she learn the hard way).

So she's having issues with text message on her iPhone. Do I have to turn anything off on her iPhone like iMessage? I believe iMessage will now only work on wifi, but text threw PM will still work right? She just won't be able to browse since she used all her data.
Thank you and happy new year!!

Re: iPhone text msg.

fisher — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:38:54 GMT

yes, you should turn off the imessage. it won't work with out network. the only way to use the imessage is connecting to wifi.

use the text by PM. should be works...

Re: iPhone text msg.

Rockdaddy22 — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:46:53 GMT

iMessage actually works great on PM's network, same network as Koodo/Telus

Re: iPhone text msg.

Rockdaddy22 — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:48:16 GMT

Im sorry I totally misunderstood. That's correct, iMessage won't work unless it's connected to the internet.

Re: iPhone text msg.

Rockdaddy22 — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:49:38 GMT

Not sure you need to turn it off.

Re: iPhone text msg.

fisher — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:51:40 GMT

he said his wife has run out of data, thats why she can not use the imessage. except use the wifi.

the only way to make it work, just turn off imessage and use the normal text。 no data need any more.

Re: iPhone text msg.

Rockdaddy22 — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:52:56 GMT

It should revert to text automatically, no need to do anything. I'm pretty sure that's how it works.

Re: iPhone text msg.

Rockdaddy22 — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:53:28 GMT

It'll just be green bubble instead of blue.

Re: iPhone text msg.

fisher — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 20:53:43 GMT

for sure he need turn off the imessage. because imessage is the first choice for iphone text.

that will effect the normal text ..

Re: iPhone text msg.

Rockdaddy22 — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:05:05 GMT

Then just turn off mobile data all together.

Re: iPhone text msg.

cameraguy — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:15:32 GMT

Great thank you for the quick responses. I'm going to turn off cellular data or iMessage.

Re: iPhone text msg.

Luddite — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:15:36 GMT

To set up messaging properly go to Settings >> Messages >> iMessage toggle ON, Send as SMS toggle ON; MMS Messaging toggle ON. This set up automatically switches to SMS via PM if data not available.

MMS does not use data allowance.

Re: iPhone text msg.

cameraguy — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:16:07 GMT

Re: iPhone text msg.

cameraguy — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 21:20:41 GMT

Thank you Luddite that was it. Send as SMS was off.

Re: iPhone text msg.

Rockdaddy22 — Sat, 31 Dec 2016 22:26:30 GMT

So no need to turn anything off, glad it all worked out.