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iMessage not working with one person, find my iPhone is, texts turn green (alien.top)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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So my iMessages are working with everyone else however I’m sharing my location with my best friend and she has a iPhone too, this morning we were talking on the phone when all of sudden her phone died. I sent messages to her asking if her phone died and they automatically turned green since the phone was off. Ever since this morning all of our messages are green, and iMessages is turned on both of our devices. Find my iPhone is working but trying to send via iMessages isn’t and the texts only turn green. Does anyone know a fix to this?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

u/Content_Owl1049, with both iphones on, signal, both on iMessage, if you are still getting a green bubble instead of the blue/imessage one, then you have 2 tricks go get the issue corrected:

1 st - Settings - Messages - Send as SMS - Off

- Send a message to that same person (works only if the other device is an iMessage capable one and that device does have data connection)

If that works, then you can turn SMS back on and you should be ok going forward:

- Settings - Messages - Send as SMS - On

If the above doesn't work, then

2nd - New Message Thread

- delete the message thread, then

- create a new thread and send a message to that same person

Usually if you delete the thread on the iphone that is affected, then the problem will go away as your device will keep sending iMessages ie. via your Data, instead of sending them as straight SMS messages.

If the above doesn't work, then

- do all the steps as on 2nd Option (see immediately above) on both devices

Make sure you update your post AFTER you've completed the above options with your results and let's go from there.