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iPhone 7/Plus iMessage on for an iPad only? Off for iPhone?

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MrMister111

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Son has an iPad and an iPhone. For Xmas he now has for a Samsuny S9 so won't use the iPhone.

Does this mean that he should switch off iMessage off on the iPhone but can leave it switched on, on the iPad, or is there no point?

Rest of direct family has iPhones, iPads. What will happen with ordinary SMS will they just go to his S9 now?

Or should we switch off iMessage on iPad as well now. I'm a little confused!

Thanks
 
He needs to turn off iMessage on the iPhone otherwise he may not get messages on his new phone. You can leave iMessage on on the iPad but he will only get iMessages that are sent to his iCloud email address. Obviously his Android phone will not get the iMessages

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042
 
Yeh that's the sort of problem though. If say an iPhone user sends a message, I think it will "see" the iMessage availablity on the iPad and so send to that and not his Android phone.

This means he will miss a lot of messages until he's home to pick up his iPad. Is this correct?

If so the only way really is to switch off iMessage on iPad as well.
 
MrMister111 said:
Yeh that's the sort of problem though. If say an iPhone user sends a message, I think it will "see" the iMessage availablity on the iPad and so send to that and not his Android phone.

This means he will miss a lot of messages until he's home to pick up his iPad. Is this correct?

If so the only way really is to switch off iMessage on iPad as well.
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This is absolutely correct; the iPhone user will send an iMessage to his iPad because he is still iMessage enabled.

I believe there are a couple of ways to get the iPhone user to send a SMS to the android phone would be to take the phone number out of the existing contact and create a new contact with a slightly different name and send the SMS to that contact. That way the iPhone user has an iMessage contact card and an SMS contact card.

Alternatively, iPhone user deletes all contact information other than phone number and deletes existing iMessage conversation from messages. iPhone user then sends a new message which should now go as SMS.
 
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