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iMessage on Mac, but SMS on iPhone...

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Nucleophile

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So I have a question here about what is happening to my messages.

I was texting someone via iMessage all morning on my iPhone with no problems. Sometime in the afternoon, my phone started slowing on sending and eventually, it turned to sending messages as SMS. That's fine as I know iMessage ability can be hindered by the receiving party's connection too.

However, when I look at iMessage opened on my iMac, it shows those same messages and says their status is "Delivered."

So which did it send as - SMS or iMessage? And most importantly, did they send at all...? No reply from the recipient yet, so I'm just hoping the messages made it through...
 
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FSMBP

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Nucleophile said:
So I have a question here about what is happening to my messages.

I was texting someone via iMessage all morning on my iPhone with no problems. Sometime in the afternoon, my phone started slowing on sending and eventually, it turned to sending messages as SMS. That's fine as I know iMessage ability can be hindered by the receiving party's connection too.

However, when I look at iMessage opened on my iMac, it shows those same messages and says their status is "Delivered."

So which did it send as - SMS or iMessage? And most importantly, did they send at all...? No reply from the recipient yet, so I'm just hoping the messages made it through...
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It probably sent both; I've seen this a lot. iMessage will fail and the iPhone will send it as SMS. However, it may try to resend the iMessage.

For example, my friend sent me a SMS via his iPhone this morning. Then 2 minutes later, I got the same exact message as an iMessage.
 
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ProudLoz

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Yeah, I had the exact issue once. I think what happens is that when an iMessage fails on your iPhone, it sends it as a SMS, but since it's also sending it via your Mac, the Mac tries to resend it later, and so you also send an iMessage, but it just doesn't show up on your phone since it's the exact same message.
 
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K3gy

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I have a different issue. How can I have my iMessages come to my phone only, and not to my iPad? I only want my sms on my phone. Any help?

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K3gy said:
I have a different issue. How can I have my iMessages come to my phone only, and not to my iPad? I only want my sms on my phone. Any help?
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Should I just turn off iCloud on my iPad?
 
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inselstudent

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Jul 27, 2012
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K3gy said:
I have a different issue. How can I have my iMessages come to my phone only, and not to my iPad? I only want my sms on my phone. Any help?

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Should I just turn off iCloud on my iPad?
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I think you can disable only iMessage in Settings>Messages
 
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