Problem with text messaging

[Appl3FTW]

So my brother, sister, and I have a group chat. All of us are iphone owners. My brother uses iMessage. However, my sister disabled her iMessage. Now the problem is that she can send a group chat to us as a text message but I couldn't reply to the group at all. Even if I reply as a text message. I don't get it, i know it wouldn't work as an iMessage because she disabled it but shouldn't send as text message go thru?

I tried sending to another group chat with android and iPhone owners and it works fine. The only problem is when I send a group chat to iphone owners who doesn't have iMessage enabled.

Help this is making me insane.

 

[Steve686]

Maybe try creating a new separate contact for your sister with only her actual phone number and no email associated with that number?

 

[bigdaddy223]

Why not just turn on iMessage??



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[CEmajr]

Why do the iPhone owners have iMessage disabled? That's one of the main benefits of iOS.

 

[Jeff R]

FYI, data is required when sending and receiving group messages unless it's an all iOS group message which will work with wifi too.

 

[MH01]

Why do the iPhone owners have iMessage disabled? That's one of the main benefits of iOS.

Cause some have friends outside the apple ecosystem. And iMessage implementation was a total mess when people moved from an iPhone to a non iPhone.

I have it disabled to avoid issues.

The reason I turned mine off and never turned it on again, when my messages would arrive to my iPad but not my phone . Maybe it's fixed now, thoguh really not interested in such a bad experience again.