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Not all iMessages being delivered/2 conversations with same contact

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handsomelife

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Feb 1, 2010
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When sending iMessages to a certain contact every now and again she doesn't receive my iMessage, despite my phone telling me it's delivered.

Every so often her iMessages also appear in a new conversation so I have 2 conversations with the same contact.

Has anyone else had this issue and know of any resolution? I've tried disabling and re-enabling iMessage but no luck.
 
Tell the contact to make sure their phone number is selected under settings-messages-send and receive. It's possible you sometime send a message to their phone number and sometimes their email.
 
This happens to me all the time with people. I think it sometimes comes from them being in bad service areas. Like iMessage can't deliver to the cell number so switches to email which then goes through. It's annoying cause I have all these messages that are fragmented. And then trying to explain to someone that they are texting from their email and we now have 2 conversations going is a whole other mess.
 
segrobja said:
This happens to me all the time with people. I think it sometimes comes from them being in bad service areas. Like iMessage can't deliver to the cell number so switches to email which then goes through. It's annoying cause I have all these messages that are fragmented. And then trying to explain to someone that they are texting from their email and we now have 2 conversations going is a whole other mess.
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This happens a a lot, but I never get a second conversation from it. It just sends it as a "text" in that same thread.
 
mattopotamus said:
This happens a a lot, but I never get a second conversation from it. It just sends it as a "text" in that same thread.
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Thats different. That is them switching between service/no service and it going back and forth between SMS and iMessage.

What I am talking about (and the OP) is when you end up with 2 separate conversations with 1 person because the iMessage starts going to their email instead of their phone number.
 
The 2 convos doesn't bother me that much, I get that with a couple of contacts but it's the random messages not being delivered and having no way of knowing which is really frustrating.
 
segrobja said:
Thats different. That is them switching between service/no service and it going back and forth between SMS and iMessage.

What I am talking about (and the OP) is when you end up with 2 separate conversations with 1 person because the iMessage starts going to their email instead of their phone number.
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Do you think that is b.c the receiver does not have their number also associated with iMessage? Like I suggested?
 
I was having the same problem. I wasn't receiving some of my messages also. I finally figured out that it was going to my mac in the messages app. I had to turn off my account in the app on my mac.
 
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