Weird - I wonder what the root cause is. I bounced between two iPhones and three Android phones last year and never lost any messages or had any issues.
Seems odd something so widespread/detrimental would be completely random. Will be interesting to see what the cause ends up being.
I'd be curious to know what you did. I tried to sim swap between my iPhone with a Nexus 5 (and even a Moto X) (I wanted to use an iPhone or the N5/MotoX when I wanted with just the swap of a sim).
I tried all the "solutions" on the internet of disabling iMessage on my phone, removing my phone number from iMessage on my iPad and iMac, changing my Apple ID password, un-registering my device from Apple... I did all this and nothing worked. I still had issues with missing texts (when I was on the Android phone) from other iPhone senders.
(1) Well the first problem is android.
(I mean, don't whine at me for saying that - I had android for three years before making the miraculous switch to iPhone this year).
(2) The number must be specified as 'mobile' rather than 'iPhone' in whomever is sending the messages' iPhone... If that makes sense.
(3) cheers to the engineering team working on a resolution. I'm sure they'll have a fix in a month or two.
I don't think the problem is android and your advice on (2) doesn't work, I tried it.
It’s your own fault for not signing out of iMessage/disabling it on your device before switching to a different phone. The same logic applies if you sold your phone to someone and left Find My iPhone on, the onus is on you to turn that off, not Apple.
nope. tried it, didn't work (even when I recently tried the Samsung Galaxy S5, I had disabled iMessage on my iPhone and my number removed from iMessage on all my devices for 2 weeks prior to receiving the S5 just to give it time to disassociate my number with iMessage... didn't work. It's funny, when i put my S5 sim back in my iPhone (to send the S5 back), I turned on the iPhone and immediately received about 6 iMessages that I never received when I was using the S5.
tried, didn't work
After I called Apple and had them disassociate my number with iMessage I haven't had any issue getting text messages. It is an extremely frustrating problem when moving away from an iPhone.
This is the only thing I didn't try.... maybe next time