Trouble with texts to/from Iphones

[Sunny Rio]

I have a friend I can text, he uses an iphone, I use Android 9. But he cannot text me, he gets an error message. I have another friend I cannot text, it appears to send but he never gets it. When will Apple stop reinventing the wheel and screwing up everyone's life?

 

[Dannydet]

Yep. This is a known issue with Apple and Android.
Unfortunately the only thing that I can suggest is to use a different messaging app and see if it works.

 

[Dannydet]

I use Textra, and never get a problem to my iPhone friends

 

[Clementine_3]

Love Textra.
Have the iPhone people check their settings, make sure send as SMS is selected. I just set up 2 iPhones for my niece and nephew, neither had that selected so texts weren't going to work. I'm on to then and their games though.

 

[Sunny Rio]

If they're not sending as SMS, what the hell are they sending as? Have Apple reinvented the wheel again? And i'm not changing my apps just to suit Apple fanboys.

 

[Clementine_3]

You don't have to change. If you are happy with the system/Google one use it. I just like Textra, tons of customization (but no RCS yet).

The texts are trying to send as iMessage and can't but the phone is not set up to then flip over and send as SMS so it goes nowhere. Have them check settings and enable 'send as SMS'.

 

[Sunny Rio]

I use SMS Organiser. It has a decent blocking function.

i just tell Apple owners to buy a proper piece of equipmnent, not some overpriced incompatible shite.

 

[mikedt]

I have a friend I can text, he uses an iphone, I use Android 9. But he cannot text me, he gets an error message. I have another friend I cannot text, it appears to send but he never gets it. When will Apple stop reinventing the wheel and screwing up everyone's life?

We never have that problem here. Reason, there's no iMessage in China.

 

[Sunny Rio]

We never have that problem here. Reason, there's no iMessage in China.

iWhat? I prefer the standards everyone else uses.

Get another phone

No, they can. I use a normal phone, not one made by only one single manufacturer intent on redesigning everything.

 

[mikedt]

iWhat? I prefer the standards everyone else uses.

As there's no iMessage service here, iPhones have to use the same standards everyone else uses.

iMessage is there, but it can't be activated with a +86 phone number.

 

[Sunny Rio]

China has banned an Apple screwup? Beautiful.

 

[Sunny Rio]

Just visited my Aunt and wanted to swap the holiday snaps on our phones. It seems bluetooth (which is a bloody standard isn't it?) is different on iphones. They just don't talk to each other. Nice one apple. Had to use her PC as a go-between! Why do people keep buying that crap?