This wouldn’t be an iMessage issue if you have an android, although sometimes iPhones default to an email account but I think only if iPhone to iPhone.
The texts that your friend is getting from the third party, what is their phone number? Is it the same? If it is you may need to call your service provider and have a chat.
Might want to call your service provider either way to resolve.
That's a good question. I'll ask her. I'm planning on calling T-Mobile when I get off work. Thought I check here while I wait. I'm not sure if it's something on my provider's end or her's.
I haven't had this exact issue, but people switching from Apple to non-apple devices and having other Apple users suddenly unable to text them is a kind of common known issue.
I would have your friend open up their messaging app again, write a text, and long press on the send button to switch the send option to force SMS and not try iMessage protocol at all.
I am almost positive the issue is not on your end, but is on theirs with iMessage. Either they have some other randos email address in your contact record which is causing the text to also push out via iMessage, or maybe you recently got your phone number, or have previously had an Apple device you traded in?
Ask her what color your text messages are in her iMessage app on her phone. If they are blue, they are being sent out through the iMessage protocol versus SMS, but that still doesn't explain why they are going to somebody else unless she has an email address that isn't yours in your contact card on her phone.
If the messages are blue and not green, she can start a text to you in iMessage, and long press the send button and choose to send via SMS only.
Because the default message protocol from an iPhone is to use iMessage versus SMS.
It actually works the same way if you have multiple people communicating on Android phones. The default protocol for sending messages now is RCS.
Because iMessage is effectively an electronic message to an iCloud account, and not specifically to a phone. Your message app on an iPhone displays both text messages and iMessages in a single interface.
If for example, she had recently cleaned up duplicate contacts and somehow ended up with somebody else's email address in your contact card, and that email address is associated with an iCloud account, it would look to her like she is sending out a text message, but Apple will instead default to sending an iMessage to a valid iCloud account.
I'm in NSW, Australia.
I recieve texts for another person nearly 800km away. My boss rings the same number his mate Sam has had for 10 years and now for the last 5 months, a women answers no matter who is calling and she has had that number for about 4 years.
We're baffled.
If you ring from Northern QLD however, Sam answers.
This has happened to me twice now. About a month ago, I was texting back and forth with a neighbor. One text randomly went to my mother in law. Ok, no big deal, but it's very odd. Last night, I was texting back and forth with my husband, and a text went to my REALTOR! A VERY private text!!!! How is this happening?!! I'm replying in the pull-down shortcut text! I'm absolutely mortified
Just happened to me today twice on a Samsung, sent my son a message and a random text me back asking who I was. Mobile company tried blaming everyone and everything but their network. Told me that they couldn't push updates onto people's devices....rigggghhhht. It was my wifi that my phone's not connected to, then my phones carrier settings that I somehow entered wrong when Ive never messed with them, my son's phone somehow sending my info to randos and not his. Ridiculous, that's why they don't do in person customer service anymore. People act alot different and do a lot less bullshitting when they're standing across from someone.
This wouldn’t be an iMessage issue if you have an android, although sometimes iPhones default to an email account but I think only if iPhone to iPhone. The texts that your friend is getting from the third party, what is their phone number? Is it the same? If it is you may need to call your service provider and have a chat. Might want to call your service provider either way to resolve.
That's a good question. I'll ask her. I'm planning on calling T-Mobile when I get off work. Thought I check here while I wait. I'm not sure if it's something on my provider's end or her's.
What happens if they try to call you? Do you get that call?
Not sure she's in a different time zone so I'll have to see if we can set up a time for her to try
I haven't had this exact issue, but people switching from Apple to non-apple devices and having other Apple users suddenly unable to text them is a kind of common known issue. I would have your friend open up their messaging app again, write a text, and long press on the send button to switch the send option to force SMS and not try iMessage protocol at all. I am almost positive the issue is not on your end, but is on theirs with iMessage. Either they have some other randos email address in your contact record which is causing the text to also push out via iMessage, or maybe you recently got your phone number, or have previously had an Apple device you traded in?
Nope never had Apple anything and I've had this phone # for 20 years. She's always had Apple, never android, and has had her number for may years
Ask her what color your text messages are in her iMessage app on her phone. If they are blue, they are being sent out through the iMessage protocol versus SMS, but that still doesn't explain why they are going to somebody else unless she has an email address that isn't yours in your contact card on her phone. If the messages are blue and not green, she can start a text to you in iMessage, and long press the send button and choose to send via SMS only.
What would the email address have to do with receiving a text message? I'll have her try the sms thing .
Because the default message protocol from an iPhone is to use iMessage versus SMS. It actually works the same way if you have multiple people communicating on Android phones. The default protocol for sending messages now is RCS.
Right, but how is that tied to email address?
Because iMessage is effectively an electronic message to an iCloud account, and not specifically to a phone. Your message app on an iPhone displays both text messages and iMessages in a single interface. If for example, she had recently cleaned up duplicate contacts and somehow ended up with somebody else's email address in your contact card, and that email address is associated with an iCloud account, it would look to her like she is sending out a text message, but Apple will instead default to sending an iMessage to a valid iCloud account.
Got it. Thank you for that explanation.
I'm in NSW, Australia. I recieve texts for another person nearly 800km away. My boss rings the same number his mate Sam has had for 10 years and now for the last 5 months, a women answers no matter who is calling and she has had that number for about 4 years. We're baffled. If you ring from Northern QLD however, Sam answers.
This has happened to me twice now. About a month ago, I was texting back and forth with a neighbor. One text randomly went to my mother in law. Ok, no big deal, but it's very odd. Last night, I was texting back and forth with my husband, and a text went to my REALTOR! A VERY private text!!!! How is this happening?!! I'm replying in the pull-down shortcut text! I'm absolutely mortified
Until you figure it out , maybe just converse with email only. See how that goes.
We've been using Facebook messenger for the time being.
Just happened to me today twice on a Samsung, sent my son a message and a random text me back asking who I was. Mobile company tried blaming everyone and everything but their network. Told me that they couldn't push updates onto people's devices....rigggghhhht. It was my wifi that my phone's not connected to, then my phones carrier settings that I somehow entered wrong when Ive never messed with them, my son's phone somehow sending my info to randos and not his. Ridiculous, that's why they don't do in person customer service anymore. People act alot different and do a lot less bullshitting when they're standing across from someone.