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Who knew that, wen you go from an iPhone to an Android phone, you need to disable imessage before transferring your number! :rolleyes:

I've looked up all the solutions (deregistered imessage online, deregistered the iPhone from my Apple account) but, when the missus sends me a text, it still sends it as an imessage and, of course, I don't receive it.

Anyone any ideas? :help:
 
Do you have an iMac or iPad? You should be able to adjust your settings across all your devices I.e. Turn it off from any iDevice.

http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201349

Alternatively, can you not put your SIMS into an iPhone and then set iMessage to off then remove SIM back to your Android?
 
What happens if she turns off iMessage? That should make sure you get texts theoretically.
 
Buck said:
Do you have an iMac or iPad? You should be able to adjust your settings across all your devices I.e. Turn it off from any iDevice.

http://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT201349

Alternatively, can you not put your SIMS into an iPhone and then set iMessage to off then remove SIM back to your Android?
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It's a different sim Adrian. I've turned imessage off on the iPhone now but I needed to have done it before the number was transferred over.
 
Do you still have your old iPhone? If it switches on without a sim and can access wifi you might be able to go into the iMessage settings and disable send and receive on your number from there.

It's really dumb of Apple not to have a sensible solution to this.
 
srichards said:
Do you still have your old iPhone? If it switches on without a sim and can access wifi you might be able to go into the iMessage settings and disable send and receive on your number from there.

It's really dumb of Apple not to have a sensible solution to this.
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Already tried that, to no avail.
 
It was WAY too late coming (off of the back of some litigation I think), but you can deactivate now without needing an Apple device: https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage (I haven't tried it myself, but I imagine it will work).

Edit: Just read your original post properly, apologies.
 
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It's really dumb of Apple not to have a sensible solution to this.
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Not that dumb, they want you locked into the Apple products so they make the migration to another system as difficult as it can be.
 
Surely the fact that your receiving a imessage is down to your missus' phone. It has to be sent as an imessage before it can be received as one. Something in her phone is telling it to send any messages she types to you as an imessage. You just have to find that and change the parameters of the sending message.
 
twhite87 said:
Surely the fact that your receiving a imessage is down to your missus' phone. It has to be sent as an imessage before it can be received as one. Something in her phone is telling it to send any messages she types to you as an imessage. You just have to find that and change the parameters of the sending message.
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not so sure, when you enter a number into a new message that isnt in your contacts it thinks about it for a moment and then turns the number blue.

i think it does a check on apples servers for registered devices with that number.
 
It could just be Apple taking their own sweet time to register the de-register you did online, they have no incentive to update records quickly so I wouldn't be surprised. Have you asked someone else with an iPhone to send you a text and see if that arrives to establish whether it is an all round thing or just something between yours and Sues?

...and when people say to me, 'you have all those Mac computers but don't have iPhones' as if I am a bit mad to not want all this tied in rubbish o_O
 
twhite87 said:
Surely the fact that your receiving a imessage is down to your missus' phone. It has to be sent as an imessage before it can be received as one. Something in her phone is telling it to send any messages she types to you as an imessage. You just have to find that and change the parameters of the sending message.
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As Neil says, it's registered on Apple's server so it's just a case of getting it de-registered which seems to take a while,
 
Yv said:
It could just be Apple taking their own sweet time to register the de-register you did online, they have no incentive to update records quickly so I wouldn't be surprised. Have you asked someone else with an iPhone to send you a text and see if that arrives to establish whether it is an all round thing or just something between yours and Sues?

...and when people say to me, 'you have all those Mac computers but don't have iPhones' as if I am a bit mad to not want all this tied in rubbish o_O
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I'm fast becoming disillusioned with Apple stuff. My iMac is getting old now and I wouldn't rule out replacing it with a Windows machine.
 
fabs said:
I'm fast becoming disillusioned with Apple stuff. My iMac is getting old now and I wouldn't rule out replacing it with a Windows machine.
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Even though I am having iMac problem currently [well, might be, it might be solved] I still prefer their computing, although as the OS gets more and more bloated, its starting to grate just a little, but this whole iPhone thing with iTunes, and this messaging type stuff, it would drive me mad! If I send a text, I want it to be a text, I don't want Apple deciding it's an 'iMessage' and messing with it :banghead:
 
Personally I'd have thought that by simply changing your phone number label in your lady's phone from "iphone" to "mobile" that would do it?


Iphone Label by grimsbytog, on Flickr
 
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Mart61 said:
Personally I'd have thought that by simply changing your phone number label in your lady's phone from "iphone" to "mobile" that would do it?
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Give this a try, a friend swapped from iPhone to windows when I was still on an iPhone (dumped it now), had the same if I messaged it imessaged, changed his entry to mobile and not iPhone in my phone book and sorted :)
 
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