Annoying problem with texting.

[jbrown]

Hi

My phone ( iPhone 5s ) often has a problem texting.

I'll send a text and it wants to go out as an iMessage ( blue field ) - but will fail.
I then have to check whether it sent, and when I find out it hasn't the manually opt to send it as a normal text ( green field ). This works fine.

I though that it would automatically choose which type to send - i.e. if iMassage fails then it would automatically send as normal text.

Any ideas to fix this?

Thanks all

 

[Ann P]

Do you have 'Send as SMS' turned on?

 

[jbrown]

Ah - thanks - I didn't even know that was an option!

 

[Ann P]

No problem! I didn't know either, until I had the same frustration.