It sounds like your phone still thinks he has an iPhone. What does it say in your contacts? Try deleting his phone in contacts and reentering it with the label "mobile" and see if that helps. The only time the iPhone will send iMessages is if it thinks the person has an iPhone. Richard
"There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing." - Aristotle > On Mar 12, 2014, at 3:17 PM, Margaret Booth <[email protected]> wrote: > > I have an iPhone 5 and my son doesn't have an iPhone but he use too. the > problem I'm having is since I upgraded my phone to IOS 7.1 is when I send a > text message to him it sends as an iMessage and it goes but he doesn't > receive it. before I upgraded the message wouldn't go and a button would come > up saying something like not send and I would double tap on it and move over > to text and send the text message as a text message. Now this button doesn't > come up. What I want to know how can I temporarially change iMessages that i > send to my son to text messages. I think this is a bug in IOS 7.1. > > > Margaret > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
