If you switched from the iPhone to an Android phone, you may have noticed a bug where people who previously were sending you iMessages can’t anymore. There’s a quick solution to this bug, however, so you can un-trap your messages.TechCrunch reports that the bug is apparently is due to the iMessage system not deactivating the service after you switch your phone number to the other device. Apple user Alphonsusjude, however, found this fix seems to work:
- Go to: https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do
- Log in if not already logged in.
- Click on “edit products”
- Click on the “x” to the right of the product.
- Click “unregister”
If you’ve encountered this bug, give this solution a try and let us know how it works for you.
[via TechCrunch]
Tim
Friday, January 6, 2012 at 10:10 AMI imagine that would probably fix the you sell your iPhone and the buyer keeps getting your iMessages as well.
Loc
Monday, January 16, 2012 at 6:55 PMWhat I see happening is people will blame their android device for not working when it is really the fault of apple.
Rob
Saturday, February 18, 2012 at 2:33 AMI Tried this a couple of weeks ago – it worked initially but after turning on my iPhone out of curiosity i found that i had a few iMessages that appeared as soon as i connected it to the wifi. So it kind of worked but kind of didnt… i checked my apple account again and it has definitely not registered anymore.
Nico
Sunday, April 1, 2012 at 1:48 PMswitched to samsung galaxy s2 and and tried above fix but still don’t receive texts from friends with iphone because their phones keep sending it as imessages
Ash
Saturday, April 21, 2012 at 1:28 PMI couldnt get the above fix to work cause of some error. I pulled my old iphone back out of the draw and went to settings>messages and turned imessage off. Now I get all my messages from iphone friends but with a 3-5min delay. I think what happens now is it tries to send imessages to my phone, fails cause i disabled it (which also seems to disable my account from imessages just like the above solution), once it fails it then sends through to my android as a normal sms. This solution only works if you have your old phone (dont worry you dont need a sim card in it, just need a wifi connection), and it also doesnt completely solve it as theres a delay…
Richard
Sunday, April 29, 2012 at 8:49 PMHave just changed and have the same problem. I disabled iMessage on the old phone but still get a big delay and who knows what I am not receiving. Surely this can be fixed?
Nick
Sunday, May 20, 2012 at 5:43 PMSame problem here, went from a 3gs to a droid razr. imessage was disable before i changed phone but a few of my friends are unable to sms me as their phones default to sending me an imessage everytime.
Poor effort on apples part, they are essentially saying they own the rights to sms that phone. It’s incredibly irritating