I have just discovered that my partner had set her new iphone 6 plus to use iMessages but, as she is on pay as you go, she turns off mobile data. Consequently, she did not receive the messages my iPhone sent her until she got home to our wifi connection! iMessages only get sent as regular text messages when Apple knows that the phone number your iPhone is contacting is not registered for iMessages. Result: my partner has turned off iMessages and now my text messages do reach her during the day and are not sent as iMessages even though she has an iPhone. Harry
> On 6 Dec 2014, at 12:41, Michael Malver <mmal...@gmail.com> wrote: > > When two people send messages, and they both have iPhones, the messages are > sent using apples I message protocol. Normal text messages have a limit of > approximately 160 characters. As a result, if somebody who doesn't have an > iPhone sends text to someone who does, the texts will be broken up into small > sections, as you have just seen. > The technique Apple uses to allow people to send messages to each other > allows messages to have virtually no length limit, and multimedia attachments. > > >> On Dec 6, 2014, at 6:28 AM, Noe Villeda <noevill...@verizon.net> wrote: >> >> Hello listers, >> >> I've noticed that when I get text messages from a friend, they're broken up, >> such as 1 of 3, 2 of 3, etc. >> My friend has a Galaxy s3 cell phone and I have an iPhone 5s. >> I have cellular data on, on my phone, is this something on her end, or do I >> need to set something in settings? >> >> Noe >> >> -- >> The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. >> All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any >> questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a >> member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators >> directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list >> can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. >> --- >> 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- > The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. > All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any > questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a > member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators > directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list > can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. > --- > 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the viphone list. All new members to the this list are moderated by default. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. The archives for this list can be searched at http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. --- 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 viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
