iMessage for Android

Re:iMessage for Android by ChikkaChiChi on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @09:19AM (#6437650)

Try being a user of iMessage then switching to another phone without disabling iMessage in advance. Any Apple user who messaged you through iMessage will continue to send messages to a dead iMessage account.

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Re:iMessage for Android by garblegarble on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @09:55AM (#6437852)

I'm pretty sure I did this recently - it sent as an iMessage and after a minute or two when the message still hadn't been delivered to the destination phone it fell back on SMS (I'm assuming the iMessage registration times out after a while, though?)

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Re:iMessage for Android by nwienert on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @12:55PM (#6439071)

I can confirm this happened to me a year ago and it was extremely frustrating.

I had to call back and forth from Apple/AT&T over the period of two days before they figured out what was happening and disabled it. Missed tons of messages.

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Re:iMessage for Android by weiran on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @09:54AM (#6437843)

How is Apple magically supposed to know that you've switched phones?

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Re:iMessage for Android by ChikkaChiChi on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @01:10PM (#6439200)

I think the point is that it shouldn't try taking control of my SMS.

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Re:iMessage for Android by vvhn on Tuesday September 24, 2013 @03:04PM (#6440002)

uhhhh.... iMessage is opt-in and isn't enabled until you actively sign up for it in settings. You don't want it taking over your SMS & MMS - don't opt-in to it.

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