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How to get “green bubbles” texting to an iPhone user? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by AA5B@lemmy.world to c/apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world
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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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[-] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 13 points 6 months ago

You can just temporarily disable iMessage in Settings > Messages.

https://reddthat.com/pictrs/image/e12fd441-e428-496f-810a-a4b37f4df39b.jpeg

[-] mmmmmsoup@lemmy.today 18 points 6 months ago

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@lemmy.world 2 points 6 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@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

I would highly suggest this

[-] pacology@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

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

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for

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