imessage thinks my friend has an iphone?

[tiim.23]

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hi guys! this is my first post so i'm sorry if I do anything wrong!

basically my friend has a blackberry, but for some reason my phone has linked his number with iMessage... so when i text him he doesn't get them because he doesn't have an iPhone!

has this happened to anyone else? does anyone have a fix?

thanks for your time!

Tim

 

[AlphaVictor87]

does he happen to have an apple id/itunes account?

If he does and he uses his regular email as his account, and you have that in your contacts, that could be the problem.

 

[BrianBaughn]

Yecch!

 

[tiim.23]

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i've thought about the email address before but in my contact list i only have his number, nothing else :/

 

[andyvp]

That's easy to fix, tell him to get an iPhone

 

[eric/]

hm, that's really weird. I think you can force it to send as a text message though.

 

[class77]

Type in the message and hit send. As soon as you do, hold the message on the display and hit "send as text". I've encountered this a few times

 

[macbook pro i5]

that's easy to fix, tell him to get an iphone

:d

 

[tiim.23]

Type in the message and hit send. As soon as you do, hold the message on the display and hit "send as text". I've encountered this a few times

works a treat! thank you

 

[Tenorsaw]

If your friend has a GSM blackberry, temporarily put the sim card in an iPhone, go into settings and turn off iMessage.

 

[vebs]

I'm not very impressed with the way Apple decided to implement iMessage, trying to simplify and streamline things goes too far sometimes.