Make sure that your iPhone has at least cellular service (for SMS) and cellular data (for iMessage) and that your iOS device isn’t in Airplane mode. If messages aren’t flowing when you think they should be, the first “is it plugged in?” thing to check is connectivity. If you text with someone in this situation, get them to deregister from iMessage.
Help Android-switcher friends turn off iMessageĭo you have a friend who previously used an iPhone but later switched to an Android phone? People like that can confuse your copy of Messages, which doesn’t know if it should send to them via iMessage (no) or SMS (yes). Here are a few of the most common solutions we’ve come across for problems with sending and receiving messages. Apple’s Messages app for iOS and macOS generally works well, but when it doesn’t, figuring out what’s wrong and how to fix it can take some doing.
