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I recently discovered there is a setting that keeps other platforms from receiving messages from iOS users.
I have a lot of friends using Android and a few using BlackBerrys. As a new iOS user I was confused when they kept saying they were not getting my messages.
I called Apple Care and apparently in the Message Settings the default is to send as iMessage only. You have to manually change your phone to "Send as SMS if iMessage Unavailable".
So essentially none of the texts I sent for like the first week I had my iPhone got to anyone who didn't have an iPhone. To test this out, I text my work phone and wasn't getting messages. Switched the option and started getting them.
While I really like the iPhone and am glad to have switched, why would they set it so the default wouldn't send texts to other platforms? How many people out there don't know about this?
You'll see the last setting. If you don't have it turned on then you can't text people without iPhones?