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Apple Highlights Additional iOS 15 Features, Such as Dual-SIM Phone Number Switching in iMessage Conversations
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AT&T user here as well. You added unnecessary steps. Try this instead:
- Open the message
- Long press and choose '...More' menu option
- Select the Forward message arrow icon in the lower right
- Type 7726 in the To: field & hit send
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Imagine picking a country in the same way that you pick a phone company or make of car, all without having to physically move.Change countries. Simple
Will I still need to do these:
- Go to Info.
- Go to Info again.
- Long press and copy number.
- Go back.
- Hit Done.
- Go back.
- Open message to 7726.
- Paste number.
Or does forwarding send the number? If I do, it does drop the process from 15 down to 12 steps.
I have to agree with this.
How about, instead of making iMessage's relationship with phone numbers even more complicated, Apple fix the whole ####ing mess that is iMessage identity? This would include things like
- AUTOMATICALLY connect all relevant AppleID's (including your @me.com and @mac.com versions) with all relevant phone numbers. If weirdo cases want to opt out, sure, but make the NORMAL CASE just work.
- do this on ALL Apple devices.
I am so damn sick of having multiple Messages threads running with the same person depending on whether I am connecting to their Mac or their phone; why is this STILL an issue.
Hell it even happens with me sometimes because Apple have made such a cack-handed mess of the set of preferences you have to set up (and set up in exactly the same way, without help) across multiple devices.
Fix the COMMON CASE Apple, before giving us this specialized nonsense!
What exactly do you want to do?
For traveling, the easiest is to buy an eSIM rather than a physical SIM. Look for eSIM on the App store, then find a plan (in an app) that matches your needs.
If all you care about is DATA an eSIM is by far the easiest solution; life becomes much messier if you insist also on a phone number because then you have to decide things like "what phone number will be attached to outgoing calls".
Live type
I just looked this up Live Text - wow thanks! I thought I had read through all the new stuff guess I missed it. Without a doubt the reason I will be updating
Data SIMs assign a number, even if you don’t use voice.
Thank you!
My goal is simply to make voice calls and use data at reasonable local rates while in Dubai.
It's awesome I could obtain an "eSIM" vs deal with the hassle of a physical SIM.
Any advice on making the eSIM activation go smoothly?
Will I still get text messages and phone calls that people send to my US numbers while the eSIM is active? I'd guess no, right?
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It's odd that for a "Visitor Line" special, they don't use the eSIM phrase
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Absolutely agreed. I have two iPhones (work/personal) using my AppleID (among other iOS devices) and I just want every message to go out on the proper number but connect together in the background. I don’t want to default to sending all my iMessages from my AppleID because I don’t want work conversations originating from my AppleID email address.
The main problem I run into is when someone sends an SMS to my personal iPhone, and I want to respond to it using my work iPhone—if they’re not on the same WiFi network at the time, the iPhone insists on sending my repsonse from the number associated with the device I’m using at the time, not the device that the message was originally sent to.
Seems like it would be pretty trivially easy for Apple to fix this mess.
See above for one reason not to do this, and the other is if there’s a non-iOS user in a group message. Everything gets all goofy if you’re not very careful about how iMessage is configured.
Yes! This is what really irks me. Especially when you and/or the other person are changing phone numbers regularly, which surprise, is a completely normal thing even if you don't use burner SIMs but are just having a nomadic lifestyle. This is really one of iMessage / Facetime's weaknesses in comparison to other apps and they don't really do anything to address it.
yea, but you can't blame this on apple — they did their part. can't force a horse, you know)
where do you live that non of the carriers offer e-sim?
this is cool, i guess, but the entire send and receive system is very buggy for me. i mean it will go between sending to the phone number, apple id and then another email used by imessage. as a result some of the messages aren't always delivered to all of the devices. this becomes super messy. at least this has been my experience with it.
The process that I outlined sends the entire message on to AT&T, number and all. You'll get a confirmation text from them after you send it.
For me (also AT&T), the confirmation always asks for the number. I've been using the Forward feature from the start. Still need to go and fetch the number.
It didn’t do that for me. I still had to copy the number and send it manually.
But your suggestion did reduce the number of steps from 15 to 12.
I fixed it. I turned iMessage off. On all my family's phones. Why? Because it was losing our messages between us. Tried talking to Apple, they denied it was a problem. Solved by just turning it off.