Safari is the new IE

Re:Safari is the new IE by Amezarak on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @01:38PM (#9807037)

I can't tell you how many times I've had to help people who switched away from their iPhone and then saw eternal, intermittent issues with not receiving text messages because their friends iPhones were convinced they should be sending iMessages and not SMS. The situation gets even worse with group messages.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by endemic on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @02:08PM (#9807268)

Even tech-savvy users (read: me) sometimes get bitten by that. I wonder if it would make sense to auto-disable iMessage when a phone's SIM is removed? The problem probably isn't even on the radar, though (iPhone users never switch!).

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Re:Safari is the new IE by TazeTSchnitzel on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @05:46PM (#9808626)

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

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Re:Safari is the new IE by Amezarak on Tuesday June 30, 2015 @06:37PM (#9808862)

Yeah, I know. In some cases this somehow still doesn't always work for some people. Even after you delete the old conversation, which also sometimes has to be done.

But the very idea that someone has to know this has to be done and disable iMessage is insane to me, and I suspect part of the reason it is the way it is is because Apple doesn't really mind what (to the average Joe) is a major annoyance when switching phones.

To be fair, matters were even worse before Apple released that tool. But this has been an ongoing issue for something like four years.

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Re:Safari is the new IE by TazeTSchnitzel on Wednesday July 01, 2015 @01:06PM (#9813410)

Oh sure, I understand it's a bit of an issue.

I wonder if Apple could really fix it any way short of asking the phone companies to know when someone switched.

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