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iPhones automatically iMessage each other using up data?!?!

backinblack875

backinblack875

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so i don't have my iPhone yet...but my sister and there boyfriend have tried it and the iPhones automatically send iMessages to each other....we don't have unlimited dat, but unlimited texting...how do you tell it to send just text without turning off iMessage?
 
backinblack875 said:
so i don't have my iPhone yet...but my sister and there boyfriend have tried it and the iPhones automatically send iMessages to each other....we don't have unlimited dat, but unlimited texting...how do you tell it to send just text without turning off iMessage?
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You can't. You will have to turn off iMessage.
 
backinblack875 said:
so i don't have my iPhone yet...but my sister and there boyfriend have tried it and the iPhones automatically send iMessages to each other....we don't have unlimited dat, but unlimited texting...how do you tell it to send just text without turning off iMessage?
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Keep in mind though... You're sending text over the internet. Text.
 
backinblack875 said:
so i don't have my iPhone yet...but my sister and there boyfriend have tried it and the iPhones automatically send iMessages to each other....we don't have unlimited dat, but unlimited texting...how do you tell it to send just text without turning off iMessage?
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You'd have to send thousands and thousands of these for it to even have a dent on your data.
 
Applejuiced said:
You're still dont get.
You're sending text over data and that is a very tiny amound of data that it will use up out of your data plan.
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would about my slide-up phone now?? i only have texting and calling...no data...how does it send texting then??
 
Applejuiced said:
Not sure what you're asking.
What happens when you send a message from your iphone to your regural slideup phone?
Then it sends it as a regural text.
Imessages go thru only between iOS devices with firmware 5.0 and higher.
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u said text sends over your data, my phone is a feature phone, and doesn't have data
 
backinblack875 said:
would about my slide-up phone now?? i only have texting and calling...no data...how does it send texting then??
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Ugh... he's not saying you're sending TEXTS (text messages) over data, he's saying you're sending TEXT (letters and numbers) over data.
As in that's all it is. There's no formatting or pictures or whatever. So the data use is negligible.

FYI: "Text" was a term hundreds of years before "texting" was a thing.
 
JBaker122586 said:
Ugh... he's not saying you're sending TEXTS (text messages) over data, he's saying you're sending TEXT (letters and numbers) over data.
As in that's all it is. There's no formatting or pictures or whatever. So the data use is negligible.
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oh, WELL, excuuusssseee meeee. when i see text in a phone convo i assume texting
 
backinblack875 said:
u said text sends over your data, my phone is a feature phone, and doesn't have data
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SMS is not iMessage. SMS, or a "Text Message" is sent via a different means over the network. It's accounted for differently than "Data."

iMessages are send strictly over a data/internet connection, and can only be sent to other iOS devices, not just any phone that receives texts.
 
backinblack875 said:
ya but texting doesn't use our data...imessage does when not on wifi
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Think about what you are saying...a text message is 10¢....the actual data being sent is less than a byte per message. it would take hundreds of iMessages to use up a kilobyte....thousands to use a single megabyte. Which is better?
 
JBaker122586 said:
Ugh... he's not saying you're sending TEXTS (text messages) over data, he's saying you're sending TEXT (letters and numbers) over data.
As in that's all it is. There's no formatting or pictures or whatever. So the data use is negligible.

FYI: "Text" was a term hundreds of years before "texting" was a thing.
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Lol :D
Exactly, Im done with this thread.
If the OP still dont get it then the prob lies elsewhere:D

phinsup said:
WOW I think i just got dumberer.
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Me more:D
 
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backinblack875 said:
you guys got me, I'm so dumb :rolleyes:

who would ever think text, would mean texting on a phone??!
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It's amazing that you are even capable of spelling.
 
ilovemyibook said:
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It's amazing that you are even capable of spelling.
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why do you have to be such a giant tool?? the way they phrased it, naturally made me think of texting.... when one heres text or texting in context with a phone they think TEXTING, as in typing words and sending to another person.
 
backinblack875 said:
why do you have to be such a giant tool?? the way they phrased it, naturally made me think of texting.... when one heres text or texting in context with a phone they think TEXTING, as in typing words and sending to another person.
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That's because you don't have any reading comprehension. It's ok, there are many others like you.

Don't be a tool back when you clearly misunderstood, while everyone else got the picture.
 
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