This is ridiculous. Apple "engineers" have now made iOS messaging a nightmare following the path of Messages for Mac OS. Conversations with a contact via iM and SMS have now been combined (like in Messages) and iM is set as default/mandatory means of communication and you cannot revert/switch back to SMS. The scenario - my wife uses an Android phone but also has an iPP. Messaging between the two devices has always been two separate conversations in Messages in iOS, which is perfect since it's typically a 98%/2% split between texting to Android/iPP. But now, in iOS 13 on my iP 11, it's all one conversation and the text field says "iMessage" and there is NO WAY to revert back to SMS like you can in Messages in Mac OS (when it screws up), so right now I can no longer send an SMS text message to my wife from my iP 11. The only way to make it work is I have to delete her email account used as her Apple ID from her contact information, this is after wasting two hours on the phone yesterday w/ Apple. So, now if I want to send an SMS text, I can no longer send an email, though I could create a second contact, but that's just not acceptable...
And yes, this is with 13.1.2 on iPhone 11 Pro... It's been bad enough with Messages in Mac OS commonly diverting back to iM response despite the last 30 inbound being SMS, but you can fix that, in iOS you can't. 🤷♂
And yes, this is with 13.1.2 on iPhone 11 Pro... It's been bad enough with Messages in Mac OS commonly diverting back to iM response despite the last 30 inbound being SMS, but you can fix that, in iOS you can't. 🤷♂