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How to get “green bubbles” texting to an iPhone user? (self.apple_enthusiast)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by AA5B to c/apple_enthusiast

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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?

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can just temporarily disable iMessage in Settings > Messages.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 11 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] AA5B 2 points 11 months ago

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

[–] cheese_greater 1 points 11 months ago

I would highly suggest this

[–] pacology 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can also activate “send as sms” in the messages page to fallback to sms when blue bubbles don’t work.

[–] AA5B 1 points 11 months ago

Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for