After all this online drama over something as silly as green bubbles, I just discovered their power. I had a brief power outage and apparently my cell provider had degraded service, so I had no data and text messages didn’t go through. Then I tried a green bubble conversation and it worked.
SMS worked, when data and iMessage did not. So how can I do that on purpose? I don’t know if this is a normal occurrence but the next time I have degraded service with no data, does anyone know if there is a way to SMS to fellow iPhone users?
You can just temporarily disable iMessage in Settings > Messages.
This fully de-registers your number for iMessage, I wouldn’t suggest this.
Instead when a message doesn’t send, simply press and hold and choose send as SMS and it will temporarily keep the chat green for a while.
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Cool thanks. That’s exactly what I was looking for
That’s what “Send as Text Message” means? I wish they had mentioned SMS somewhere: I just assumed it was redundant text for sending a text message
You can also activate “send as sms” in the messages page to fallback to sms when blue bubbles don’t work.
Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for
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Person asks how to use SMS when they don’t have data service, gets recommendation for an app that requires data service.
Touché, its been a rough two days :/
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You are correct sir, sorry for the misunderstanding re:data aspect
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