how to send once off sms without having to create a contact

2014-11-19 Thread Fanus
Hello list I want to send a once off sms to get my cell contract upgrade date. My common knowledge tells me to go to messages, then compose. When I activate compose I land in an edit field which says to if I swipe to the right there is indeed a text message field. When I swipe back to the right

RE: how to send once off sms without having to create a contact

2014-11-19 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Just type the number where you want to send the message into the To field, then swipe right to the message field and double tap on it to enter editing mode. Type your message and tap Send. From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Fanus Sent:

Re: how to send once off sms without having to create a contact

2014-11-19 Thread Fanus
Hi Sieghard This is very strange. I do just what you say: I go to messages, double tap on compose then I land in the to field. I type the number 31050. When I then swipe to the right once, I hear add to contacts one more swipe says 1 which is the 1 on the keyboard. There is no other text field

RE: how to send once off sms without having to create a contact

2014-11-19 Thread Sieghard Weitzel
Hi Fanus, I just tried it with the number you have to send it to and I can swipe to the text field for the message. Maybe try to touch the screen and find the field rather than swiping. You could always try to write your text first, then find the To field and put in the number. I assume you

Re: how to send once off sms without having to create a contact

2014-11-19 Thread Fanus
Hi Sieghard and list I wonder if other iPhone 5S users have this problem too. When I type the body of the message first, I can go back to the to field but the moment I type the number in the to field the field where I typed the message as well as the send button, disappear. Even if I do a two

Re: how to send once off sms without having to create a contact

2014-11-19 Thread RobH.
In the below, you only ever swiped to the right, you have to swipe to the left to go back up the options, like back to the To: field. Or put finger right back at top of the screen, then flick right and go down again from the top. - Original Message - From: Fanus buys.fa...@gmail.com

Re: how to send once off sms without having to create a contact

2014-11-19 Thread Jan Kleinhans
Hi This is an interesting thing. I've tried something simular with Siri before, wanting to call a short numer like 121, which is a voice mail number on some of our south african networks. She would not or could not call that particular short number. It seemed as if siri wanted a ten digit