So my friend sent me 2 messages, both within 2 minutes of each other. One of them was an iMessage and the other got sent as an SMS message. When I replied back on my MacBook, none of my messages says they were delivered, but on my iPhone it says the messages were delivered. I know I'm not blocked or anything, so I'm wondering if my friend really did get my messages or were they never sent at all?
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iMessage help
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Perhaps some old school technology is called for here. Using the telephone app on your iPhone call your friend and, with your actual voice, ask them if they received the two texts. Hopefully they will provide you with the answer and you will wonder no more.
Be careful with using iMessage to an icloud email address VS a phone number. It's easy to mix these up. Your friend could have their phone configured to "Send and receive at friendsemail@icloud.com"
I try to disable that asap. So the phone and everything else is using iMessage via the phone number and nobody can iMessage you at your email address etc.
I try to disable that asap. So the phone and everything else is using iMessage via the phone number and nobody can iMessage you at your email address etc.
I noticed interesting problem with my MBP using Messages app when sending text messages. It seems to be sending them all as SMS instead of iMessage. Is there any way to select (or force) which type messages it sends in Message app? Also from your sent messages in MBP is there any way to see which way it has been sending them? I notice that certain discussions look green color but those are sent to those without iMessage, so they are ok and then there are blue color messages that I think are supposed to mean iMessage and those are sent to those who have iMessage. Is that the only indication what method has been used and is it then certain that iMessage has been used to sent them?
I of course login to the same iCloud account in my MBP as in my iPhone and I have also checked in my iPhone that I allow my MBP send also using SMS and I have same setting in MBP but I thought that was only to get all my messages from iPhone to relayed to MBP too and that it should still be able to send also iMessages from MBP, but obviously it now sends them all as SMS.
I would not noticed that unless I checked my last phone bill and wondered why I was sending so many SMS since I mostly use iMessage.
My MBP has the latest Mojave version installed and also my iPhone is running the latest official IOS version (no beta versions or similar used in both).
I of course login to the same iCloud account in my MBP as in my iPhone and I have also checked in my iPhone that I allow my MBP send also using SMS and I have same setting in MBP but I thought that was only to get all my messages from iPhone to relayed to MBP too and that it should still be able to send also iMessages from MBP, but obviously it now sends them all as SMS.
I would not noticed that unless I checked my last phone bill and wondered why I was sending so many SMS since I mostly use iMessage.
My MBP has the latest Mojave version installed and also my iPhone is running the latest official IOS version (no beta versions or similar used in both).
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