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iMessage - what happens when you are roaming?

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nk416

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May 8, 2011
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My wife and I leave "data roaming off" when we travel outside of the country. We use cheap text messaging to communicate, as the roaming data charges on our home carrier are outrageous.

If I (or my wife) is overseas, will she no longer be able to text me through the message app? Will iMessage default to data for sending when there is no data connection available, even if you have used iMessage with the same user in the past?
 
nk416 said:
My wife and I leave "data roaming off" when we travel outside of the country. We use cheap text messaging to communicate, as the roaming data charges on our home carrier are outrageous.

If I (or my wife) is overseas, will she no longer be able to text me through the message app? Will iMessage default to data for sending when there is no data connection available, even if you have used iMessage with the same user in the past?
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Incoming SMS should always work anywhere, with or without iMessage switched on.

iMessage has a feature to turn it off when there isn't a network connection, but if your wife sent a message to you using iMessage and your phone had no data connection then I don't think it would be delivered. IMO this is a huge problem.
 
Daveoc64 said:
Incoming SMS should always work anywhere, with or without iMessage switched on.

iMessage has a feature to turn it off when there isn't a network connection, but if your wife sent a message to you using iMessage and your phone had no data connection then I don't think it would be delivered. IMO this is a huge problem.
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No its not. It detects if the user is online at the time. If not it sends it as a normal SMS.
 
It doesn't work always - currently when sending messages from Europe to Japan, the iPhone attempts iMessage, until finally failing and then - much later - sending as text.

Is there any way to force text?
 
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