Sidebar Sidebar
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.

iMessages Going to Wrong iPhone "Isn't a Bug" Claims Apple

This is one of the reasons I went to android

After years of using iPhones, I am very tired about the bureaucracy that surrounds every part of iPhone use. Music being registered with a selected number of devices, pictures having to be updated trough iTunes, phone activation, selected computers that sync or don't sync with selected iPhones, ant the list expands forever. And now this too. I'm tired. I lived in Italy for a couple of years and I already had to deal with Kafka style bureaucracy, I don't need that from a cell phone too. Moving to Android has been such a nice experience that I'm sad I didn't do it before.
 
It's not a bug, it's not a fault, it's not anything like we've ever seen before.

It's Apples new social networking with total strangers feature :eek:

"Apple, we're unpredictable" LOL
 
The natives are getting restless.
Imagine the collateral damage if the Euro, Farcebook and iJustdon'twork crater at the same time next year.
 
ghostface147 said:
Send me a copy please.
Click to expand...


He may have gotten a freebie, everything else comes at a cost. ;)


The funny thing is whenever there's an issue like this or the antenna on the 4, apple comes out and gives a statement/excuse like a father would give to his 3yr old. Total BS answer that you know is a lie but it's given anyways because the 3yr old doesn't know any better yet anyway. Almost like you want the child to drop it and move on.
 
photo2.png


This is the kind of stuff i get???

This was just on my phone when i checked my phone the other night. I did not send this and have no idea why there is a reply.

There has been no sim card trading or stolen equipment.

One problem is that I think I'm the only parent in town that buys music so it is possible that this iphone or ipod (other side??)has been attached to my computer and got my music off Itunes at some point maybe??..

The reason the name is in my address book is because my address book is synced to my daughters and i have not taken the time to figure out how to turn that off. At first I thought it was a conversation between my daughter and her friend but it was a unrelated conversation...

This is a little girl and I'm a school employee...... ... imessage is off on my phone if that even helps..
 
Isn't Imessage linked to the iTunes store user id and password? If you change the Itunes account password that should stop shouldn't it?
 
Has anyone started a Wrong iPhone iMessage blog yet? Like the Wrong Number Texts and Damn You Autocorrect ones? :p

In all seriousness, I just disabled iMessages on my iPhone and I should hope it doesn't now link my messages to whoever I sell the phone onto in a few months' time.
 
jcbauerca said:
Isn't Imessage linked to the iTunes store user id and password? If you change the Itunes account password that should stop shouldn't it?
Click to expand...

Unfortunately that will not stop it. In addition to using your Apple ID/password, iMessage can also use your phone number via the sim card as an ID. But once iMessage is activated with a sim card, it will not verify the sim card again. Even if the sim card has been removed or deactivated. It will still receive iMessages via wifi using the phone number as the id from the removed or deactivated sim card. Therein lies the big time design flaw/bug!
 
Last edited:
Ah

0dev said:
Has anyone started a Wrong iPhone iMessage blog yet? Like the Wrong Number Texts and Damn You Autocorrect ones? :p

In all seriousness, I just disabled iMessages on my iPhone and I should hope it doesn't now link my messages to whoever I sell the phone onto in a few months' time.
Click to expand...

Have you searched for "The Leila Texts" yet? It's an interesting blog. In that case it's not an Apple issue but a more widespread issue dealing with a particular carrier but it's an interesting website. This woman named Leila gets texts for other women named Leila all over the world due to a weird bug in their code.
 
ski1ski1 said:
If anyone has physical access to your phone (even your locked phone) for 30 seconds, they can pop out your sim card, install it into their phone and turn on iMessage, then put your sim card back into your phone. iMessages directed to you will now go both to your phone and their phone and you will never know. Pretty bad design flaw/bug. Apple needs to address this security/privacy issue, instead of blowing it off. They have known about this issue for at least 2 months.
Click to expand...

Do this with an Apple exec's phone or Congressman's phone and you will have the necessary drive to get it fixed. Hell, let a cheating husband get caught because his wife used this trick, let the press know, and all cheating bastards in positions of power everywhere will push to make sure this gets fixed.
 
Dear Apple

I have never had an iPhone, then my wife decided to buy a new one and I borrowed her old one for one day before she sold it. Now when she is trying to text me her phone sends the message as an imessage, which I for obvious reasons do not recieve because Im using an old Nokia phone. Turning off imessage on her phone resolves the problem and the message is send as a normal text, turning it on again, the problem comes back. That problem I can solve, but how many texts from other friends with iPhones did I not recieve? And is the new owner of the old iPhone now reading my private messages? The phone was completly restored before it was sold.

Best regards
A guy who really wants to buy an iPhone but now is having second thoughts
 
aristotle said:
Right, you bought it in the alley behind the office from a reputable Italian gentleman named Pauly.
;)
Click to expand...

Funny of course-

But if I said I got it from another race or nationality I would be called bigoted/ or racist...
 
I had two customers come into Best Buy Mobile yesterday with this exact problem (messages being sent to the wrong phone). The problem was that they were trying to share one iTunes/iCloud account, and they assumed that iMessage was sent to the phone number, not to the iTunes account.

I had them create a new iTunes account on one of the phones, signed out of the duplicate account on iCloud and signed back in under the new account, and the messages ceased to be sent to both phones. Problem solved. :)
 
I tried my utmost to keep my fanboy-ness by using the iMessage, but damn it sucks and is slow.

Personally i feel what's app seems to be the best when it comes to live chats because of its cross platform capabilities. Helps me in keeping touch with my good 'ol Nokia symbian buddies :cool:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Register on MacRumors! This sidebar will go away, and you'll see fewer ads.
Top Bottom
Back