You may have to call your provider and see what is happening, I can't think of any Setting like this except to make sure you go to Settings > Apps > Messages and make sure you turn on "Sent as text message" which means if somebody has an iPhone but for some reason they or you are not having any data connection that any iMessage is sent as a regular text message. I would also tap on "RCS Messaging" and turn it on if it is not on, this is a cross platform standard which makes sending text messages to Android users more secure and it will show you delivery status as with iMessage. Near the top is also a Setting where you can select your default messaging app, not sure in which version of iOS this was introduced because I think it's new in iOS 18 and maybe even was introduced with iOS 18.2 or 18.3 and I don't know which version you are on. If you have it make sure it is set to "Messages" because if you have WhatsApp on your iPhone and for some reason it's selected as the default this may not be such a good idea.
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