When is imessage sent as text message

Is your iMessage set up to send messages from your e-mail address? Did she block you through the Phone app or directly from iMessage? Yes, I do have iMessages set up to send messages from my email address. She blocked me through the phone app and from iMessages I believe.

How do you block someone through iMessage? Ok, so I sent the first message it was blue with no delivery message beneath. Then I sent another same thing. I called the phone rang all the way through. Relooked and it still no delivery message beneath. Then the others followed. Then the person texts me and says they have been having problems with their phone what do you think? Hi there Without sounding redundant here…I experienced the same thing, blue bubble says delivered then after 5 min it turned green with no notification.

He always has cell service at work and never turns his phone or disables iMessage. I felt like I had been blocked. I sent him a message through FB messenger asking if he received my text and told him it turned green being naive at this moment then a little while later I got a response with a specific answer to my text that had turned green. My question is if I was blocked temporarily and he unblocked me..

Hey Suzanne, happy to have you in the comments. The messages are typically blue but they just turned to green. Hey Amber, good to have you join the conversation. The second green message with nothing underneath means that the message was sent as an SMS. When in doubt text that person from another phone.

But when I call it goes through it rings about 5 to 7 times then goes to voicemail. What does this mean? Did he block me? Or is his phone on do not disturb? As for the phone call, you should have heard a single ring before going to voicemail. Let me know if you need further help. I have an ex who is definitely blocking and unblocking me. I can tell when I am unblocked because the read receipt button reappears for that individual.

It disappears if you are blocked again iPhone 12 to iphone Also, the text arrow will turn from green to blue which indicates you were unblocked. However, the initiated message will be blue and sent as an iMessage and then turns green and says sent as text message.

My question is it is originally sent as blue iMessage, is it possible they received it and blocked you after they got it?

As soon as I send the message, the read receipt indicator for the individual is gone very coincidental. However, my assumption is they got the message and blocked me.

The message indicates iMessage with date and time at the top and the message ends green with sent as text message at the bottom lighter gray color. Also, there seems to be a slightly darker gray almost bold font color sent as text message that you know definitively when you were blocked. Hey Corrine, thanks for joining the conversation. As you said, it appears that your ex has been blocking and unblocking you.

I hope that helps, let me know if you have further question. From one iPhone to another, when I send a text it is green, when I call it goes into voicemail after or during the first ring. Would the phone being off trigger a green message and not a blue one?

If the phone was off at the time you sent the message it will not be delivered and would revert to sending it as an SMS green bubble. Keep in mind if that person has multiple Apple devices activated with the same Apple ID, the message will be delivered to whichever is turned on and with an internet connection.

I do… The text message at the top says iMessage with date and time and at the bottom of the text message, it indicates sent as a text message. The message was blue when sent and then turned to green. Unknown if it was received. I have heard that when you are unblocked the read receipt toggle bar under info disappears. I sent the message when the read receipt toggle bar was present and the little arrow in the text message circle was blue when I started to send the message.

I am wondering if Apple has a new algorithm that mixes up how blocked text messages look and if the algorithm at times shows the read receipt toggle bar under info. I tested this feature with a friend of mine and had her block me for he entire day. When she initially blocked me within 15 minutes of the block the read receipt toggle indicator under info disappeared.

I tested this with two other friends and again within 15 minutes of being blocked the read receipt indicator disappeared. However, several hours later while still blocked the read receipt toggle indicator reappeared and I sent a message that was blue and turned to green.

I was blocked but the message had imessage at top of text without a date or time and at the bottom said sent as text message. It appears from my blocking text test Apple has some privacy programming. The blocked text messages change in appearance and how they appear to the blocked sender.

Some texts appear as text message with date and time at the top of the text message with nothing at the bottom. Some texts will appear with a date and time only at the time with nothing at the bottom.

Some text message when initially blocked will say sent as text message at the bottom, nothing at the top. Apple has made it so you cant really tell and some messages on the newer models will change from blue to green and you are still blocked.

I do wonder if this is a message where you have been unblocked for a small amount of time and the individual is using a Mac and the imessage is sent to the Mac but the Iphone is off and therefore, the bottom says sent as a text message because the Iphone was not on to receive it as an imessage.

The contact is blue unless you are an Adroid user or you have been blocked, but once unblocked they have to text you for it to change. You could be unblocked and it will still show green in your contacts. I read all above questions and responses. My question is: I sent a text to someone who I think may have blocked me because he did once before when we broke up. It said nothing underneath at all. What is the difference here? There has to be one. Thank you.

To expand, he has an iPhone and I know he has internet connection and that is phone is in fact on. Do Not Disturb mode has nothing to do with the delivery of iMessages, it just silences incoming alerts and notifications. Hi there. I tried to send a iMessage text today but nothing went through. I had my friend send a test message to him and it went through.

Have you ever seen blocking like this or is this some other technical issue that somehow is only happening between me and this one person who also has an iPhone? Hi Wintyr, Thanks for stopping by. Try to restart your phone or delete the iMessage thread with that person and start a new one. If none of these work, check to see if Messages in iCloud is enabled, or you may run out of iCloud storage. Either way, let me know how it goes.

I did try to call just to make sure everything was OK and that was what was going on is that somebody was just back around and it did go straight to voicemail which once again matches the things that you have listed as somebody has blocked you but then again Sunday night the messages went through and everything appears the same as it does now and it did before.

Or does straight to voicemail without a ring in the phone is dead and possibly broken again. But doing that should give me my answer?

Hello- great stuff here. Just to be sure, if I send a text to another iPhone, the bubble will be blue and say delivered if everything is normal no blocking, phone receiving service, phone on. If it says Delivered and the bubble is blue, I can assume that the message went to their phone-correct? Also, I sent a text to my other iPhone, but the history of that message does not show on the original phone.

Any ideas? Hi Rich, Can you elaborate more on your question so I can better help you? After a while, it stopped showing whether it was delivered or not but still on green.

Hi Tobi, thanks for dropping by. If you own an iPhone, you must be well aware of the iMessage app and enjoy communicating through it. You also may know that iMessage offers blue bubbles for text. But many of the users have arrived us with the issue as mentioned above. To make you informed, the blue coloured texts are those which are sent or received by iMessage, whereas the green bubbles are those sent via normal text SMS service. If you're having the same issue that your iMessages are being sent as text messages, you can check out the following solutions to solve this issue.

In order to help you have a brief understanding of each method, we make a comparison table for you. When you still see your iMessage sent as a text message, it's time to look for an iOS issue. There are chances that some iOS issue is leading to the problem. Here is how you can use this tool to fix your problem. Choose the 'Standard Mode' from the main screen now. Step 2 — Hit on 'Start' and you will need to go along with the onscreen steps to take your device into DFU mode.

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These could be hindrances for iMessage to be sent successfully because if iMessage is not enabled or there is no internet connection on their side, your iMessages will be sent as text messages. Hence check this option and disable it to check if iMessage is still sent normally. Traditional SMS text messages have green shading around them. This can happen if iMessage is down, or if there is a network issue on the part of the sender.

Additionally, if the message was intended to be sent as an iMessage but was unable to do so, then there will be a little indication under the green message bubble stating that it was sent as an SMS instead. Following the steps above will prevent your iPhone from sending your iMessage as a text message.

Note that this may result in the message not being sent at all. Not necessarily. As mentioned previously, an iMessage sent as a text message is usually indicative of a network issue.

Any message sent to a non-Apple user will be sent as a text message.