Since imessage can use both phone numbers and email addresses as imessage ids, this can cause multiple threads and much confusion. May 14, 2014 a common problem for onetime iphone users that have since switched to an androidbased smartphone or other device is that their phone number is still linked to imessage. For messages, choose messages preferences, then click accounts and select your imessage account. My friend also has an iphone but why cant i turn imessage back on for that contact.
I would like to remove my email address from the iphone 4 and use it on my imessage on ipad but for comes reason i cant remove it. Unfortunately you cant disable imessage on a percontact basis. You might need to wait a moment for it to activate. Fortunately for former iphone users, apple has launched a deregister imessage tool that lets people whove given up apple devices disassociate their cellphone numbers from the.
How do i disassociate my phone number from imessage. How to remove an email address from imessage on an iphone. Is there a way to unlink my phone number from imessages on the ipad. In this post, you learned how to remove phone number from imessage on iphone ipad and mac. Thanks to imessage, you can respond to text messages without even saying word. You may need to turn off imessage if you are now using a nonapple phone and cant get sms or text messages someone sends you from an iphone.
In other words, i do not want messages sent to my phone to display on my ipad and likewise. How do i delete contact suggestions from messages in os x. Once i deleted the contacts off all the groups they no longer popup on imessage or search. If asked, sign in with the apple id that youre using with messages and facetime on your iphone. How do i delete a phone or email from imessage or facetime. Nov 10, 2014 fortunately for former iphone users, apple has launched a deregister imessage tool that lets people whove given up apple devices disassociate their cellphone numbers from the messaging service. Sign in with your apple id at my support profile on apples website. If you no longer own the device, click on the iphone you wish to unregister. You should completely erase everything on that phone and reset it to the original settings. How to disable and deactivate imessage on iphone or ipad imore. May 15, 2018 how to remove an email address from imessage on an iphone. While you cant remove your phone number as an option, you can withdraw your apple id email account. If you want recipients to see your phone number and not your apple id, select your phone number from the start new conversations from or start new calls from popup menu.
In this post, you learned how to remove phone number from imessage on iphoneipad and mac. It is a necessary step for those who decide to move on to android camp, because their android device will not receive the text messages from other iphone users if their number still linked to imessage, on the mean times, the senders who use iphone will get an acknowledgement of message delivered. With imessage, iphones, macs, ipads and ipod touches can receive messages when they are connected to a wifi wireless internet or 3g4g network. Sep 18, 20 apple imessage keeps new phones from getting texts. You can use the phone number of your iphone with messages and facetime on your mac, ipad, or ipod touch. If he has other apple devices mac or ipad that are using his apple id, your. How do i fix it so we can use imessage and facetime. Jun 15, 2017 3 steps to disable imessage and not lose your mind. In order to do this, make sure you have your apple id on hand as well as the phone number in question. Add or remove your phone number in messages or facetime. The smoothest way to deal with this is to have him disassociate his phone number from his. To check which imessage id is being used for a contact in a particular thread. Apple imessage keeps new phones from getting texts techlicious.
Unlock iphone touchid with wet fingers imessage is not showing contact pictures autolock setting is greyed out view only unread emails fix location based reminders that are not working ios 10 raise to wake does not work. Type the name of the contact to whom youd like to send a message. How to add or remove a phone number associated with icloud. I wanted to remove this number from my apple id so that it was removed from being used in imessage and facetime on all of my devices. How to remove your phone number from imessage youtube. Aug 16, 2018 how to send imessages on iphone or ipad imessage lets you send text, photo, video, audio, and more. Deleted contacts appearing in imessage macrumors forums. How to add or remove your phone number in messages or. You can also set up your other apple devices to send and receive messages from any apple device. Apple imessage keeps new phones from getting texts. Jan 14, 20 how to stop sending imessage texts to a contact so, i had this issue. I recently broke my handmedown iphone 4s midcontract and ive had to revert back to using an old cell phone. To use smsmms on an iphone, you need a textmessaging plan.
If the issue continues after 24 hours, follow these steps. Im not sure if the iphone contact function will work or not, but im gonna give it a shot, with imessage on. Mar 31, 2017 for a lot of us, imessage is the primary way we stay in touch with our friends and family. But theres a lot more to the messages app than simply sending and receiving text and photos. Why do some imessages show up as an email instead of a phone. On your iphone, your phone number and apple id email address are the default ways in which somebody can contact you on facetime. Friend of mine had the same issue after his wife disabled imessage, to clear this up you must delete all the information on them even contact and re add them. It might take up to 24 hours to activate imessage and facetime. Toggling icloud contacts off and then on again seems to work for most people.
If you have an iphone and a mac or ipad, you can link your phone number to your icloud account to send and receive calls and messages from. Aug 27, 2015 have you ever been texting with someone on your iphone, only to have their chat randomly switch to a whole new contact. However, my iphone insisted on sending imessages to him even though his mobile number had been ported across to the new phone. How to remove phone number from imessage on iphoneipadmac. Those who have upgraded to ios8 may also notice that the option to use their phone number to send imessages doesnt appear to be available. Jan 27, 2020 to turn off your phone number, deselect it in the list. Check out our essential messages tips and tricks for iphone to make your imessage conversations a lot more interesting. We had been imessaging when all of a sudden it wouldnt send. I received a new iphone with a new number so i wanted to cancel my previous iphone and number.
Tap your appleid on the top of the page, sign out, and let the new guy sign his or her self in. Why do i have different imessage threads for the same contacts. How to disassociate my apple id, facetime, and imessage from. Deregister imessage deregister and turn off imessage apple. Restart the iphone and see if the contact appears on your device. If you cant deactivate imessage after you perform the steps above or you cant access the iphone, please contact apple support. Be sure you can keep getting text messages by providing the phone number you want to deregister from imessage. The person might then be unable to receive messages from other iphone users, since the imessages are never able to be delivered.
Oct 17, 2011 i have imessage on my iphone 4 and messages get received at my phone number and my email address. However my friends and family that own an iphone with imessage turned on, everytime they text my number. How to remove a phone number from imessage idownloadblog. May 22, 2014 as the imessage backend would not disassociate a users imessage account from his or her apple id, the system would automatically deliver text messages from other iphone users as imessages. If wifi is unavailable, imessages will be sent over cellular data. You need to remove the person in imessage on ios device when typing the. Be sure you can keep getting text messages by providing the phone number you. The following tips help you stay connected after leaving. Apple to fix imessage phone number issues in a future.
Go to settings messages and make sure that imessage is on. Fix the imessage iphonetoandroid bug lifehacker australia. Learn how to make messages that you send and receive on your iphone appear on your mac, ipad and ipod touch. Jan 09, 20 i found the deleted contacts that were coming up were deleted off my main contact list but still on one of the contact groups i did not have checked. How to remove an apple id phone number on an iphone. More importantly, you can add any other email addresses youd like to the list, so you never have to worry about a friend, family member, or coworker not being able. Im pretty sure imessage registers the number, and then when you add the contact it checks apples server really quick and says oh, he had an iphone, imessage it to him this is actually a huge security issue and i cant believe apple hasnt been sued and or brought to task over it. The easiest way to fix the problem is to disable imessage on your iphone before making the switch to another mobile platform. I did this by using a paper to copy the info, then deleting the message history and restarting the iphone, once this was complete i added the contact back. You can register on imessage using your phone number as well as apple id. Howto unlink a phone number from apple id, imessage and facetime. While getting your iphone number disassociated from imessage used to be a somewhat complicated process, the good news is that you can now do this using apples deregister imessage page.
Go into settings messages and halfway down choose send and receive. For a long time, there was no way for users switching from an iphone to an androidwindows phone to deregister their phone numbers from. Find contacts and if it already turned on, toggle it off and then on again. Ive just sent a message to another iphone, it sent as an imessage, i turned off my data and wifi and sent another message to the other iphone, it sent as a text message, turned wifi back on and the third went as imessage, wifi off and the 4th went as text message again. I turned off imessage on my iphone, i unregistered the iphone from my apple account. There you are, happily typing away, when all of a sudden you have to jump into a new message box that says its from their email instead of the main contact. Now when friends with iphones almost everyone i know try to send me an sms i never get the messag. Messages on os x doesnt allow recent contacts to be deleted, but messages. How do i remove my friend from an imessage phone contact. To dissable imessage on your phone the one who has changed from iphone to something else. This wikihow teaches you how to delete a secondary phone number from your apple id account on an iphone. How to add or remove email addresses to be reached at for. But if you dont want your contact to see your phone number while sending imessage, you can remove it.
If you get an error when trying to activate imessage or. How do i disable imessage syncing between my iphone and ipad. In settings, the phone number is listed but you cannot select it because it is greyed out. This wikihow teaches you how to remove an email address from the list of addresses that you can be reached at in imessage on your iphone. I double tapped send and set it to send as a text, but now it will not go back to imessage. I dont want messages sent to my email to display on my iphone. How do i disable imessage for a contact who no longer has an iphone. Mar 28, 2019 how to remove an apple id phone number on an iphone.
Contact your wireless carrier for more information. Howto pair your iphone with the car over bluetooth auto answer calls in ios 11. After you set up your phone number, you can turn it on or off for messages and facetime on your mac open messages or facetime. On the device, go to settings then imessage then tap on receive at. Open the settings app on your iphone and then tap icloud. Make sure that your device has the latest version of ios or ipados if youre using an iphone, contact your carrier to make sure that you can send and receive sms messages. How to stop sending imessage texts to a contact techknowl. The problem is, nonapple platforms are unable to receive imessages. To ensure that a conversation stays in the same thread, you must ensure you are using the same imessage id everywhere. In short, actual text messages sms, normally displayed in green on your iphone, should still only be seen on the iphone they were sent to or from.
If your iphone is used with a carrier not found in the wireless carrier articles make sure you can. How do i delete a phone or email from imessage or facetime my son logged into his itunes account with his grandmothers iphone so he could download a song for her. Tap the apple id at the top and you get the option to sign out. How to set up and activate imessages for iphone and ipad imore. How to like a text message on an iphone in imessage. Click on the unregister button and confirm this action. Youll likely find that youre actually not receiving all of each others text messages, but rather only those sent with other iphone users. At this point, the phone is, for all intents and purposes, your phone, with your email, your photos, your music, your calendar, your reminders, notes, boo. An iphone feature called tapback lets users choose from a selection of reactions a heart love, thumbs up like. In short, theres nothing verizon can do about this, as they dont technically see the imessages as anything more than normal internet traffic. If youd rather have your notification only show the senders name, however, you can easily adjust the settings of the messages app to do so. Contacts and imessages appearing on multiple iphones ilounge. I edited her contact information to show she is using an iphone for text messages, but they are still being sent as sms.
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