iMessage going as normal SMS since 5.0.1?

[WeegieMac]

Only noticed this tonight when sending a mate who I know has an iPhone 4, a text.

I also tried family with iPhones, and their messages stay "green" and don't turn "blue" to signify an iMessage.

The feature is switched on, and I done a clean install of 5.0.1 last night.

 

[Watabou]

Go to Settings-->Messages and turn off "Send as SMS" option. Sometimes, if the iMessage can't be sent, the iPhone sends it as SMS instead. This makes it so that it will send iMessages every time.

You can still send SMS though but if you have iMessages contacts, it will make sure to only send iMessages.

 

[WeegieMac]

Go to Settings-->Messages and turn off "Send as SMS" option. Sometimes, if the iMessage can't be sent, the iPhone sends it as SMS instead. This makes it so that it will send iMessages every time.

You can still send SMS though but if you have iMessages contacts, it will make sure to only send iMessages.

Cheers mate.

Thing is though, on iOS 5.0, I never changed any settings for messages.

If I selected someone who owned an iPhone running iOS 5, the colour changed from Green to Blue, all automatic.

 

[r2shyyou]

Only noticed this tonight when sending a mate who I know has an iPhone 4, a text.

I also tried family with iPhones, and their messages stay "green" and don't turn "blue" to signify an iMessage.

The feature is switched on, and I done a clean install of 5.0.1 last night.

I just now sent an iMessage as a test for another thread and there was no issue. However, I'm in the US on AT&T and I believe you're in the UK so me not having an issue probably doesn't mean much to you. In any case, perhaps try toggling iMessage on/off to see if that has any effect.

 

[Watabou]

Cheers mate.

Thing is though, on iOS 5.0, I never changed any settings for messages.

If I selected someone who owned an iPhone running iOS 5, the colour changed from Green to Blue, all automatic.

Yeah, but the thing is, it only sends SMS if there is some trouble sending off an iMessage. So I assume there was a reception problem or something and that's why it fired off an SMS instead since it couldn't send an iMessage.

 

[WeegieMac]

I just now sent an iMessage as a test for another thread and there was no issue. However, I'm in the US on AT&T and I believe you're in the UK so me not having an issue probably doesn't mean much to you. In any case, perhaps try toggling iMessage on/off to see if that has any effect.

Yeah, I'm on O2 in the UK.

I've switched iMessage off (I also tried the above test by turing off Send As SMS, but still when selecting contacts who own iPhone's on iOS 5, the name remains green in colour), and it's now awaiting activation. So we'll see what happens when it eventually comes back on.

Odd.

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Yeah, but the thing is, it only sends SMS if there is some trouble sending off an iMessage. So I assume there was a reception problem or something and that's why it fired off an SMS instead since it couldn't send an iMessage.

Yeah, true, but it's acting the same regardless of that toggle ... I select someone who I know is using an iPhone with iOS 5, and their name stays green. Could be a network issue, no big deal, it'll sort itself out no doubt.