09-11-2014, 11:21 AM
deckeda wrote:
This doesn't make sense. The receiving iPhone should never have a problem getting a text, and it would already know to send as SMS to the Samsung so long as the iPhone user has that turned on.
iMessage turned on/off or in-between shouldn't matter. Bottom line: phone numbers are always associated with carriers for SMS. I can turn iMessage off and send as SMS.
Check again on the interwebs. Lot of problems with iMessage purgatory. This all depends on whether one of the people in the OP switched away from an iPhone at some point. I hate iMessages. I hate that it is on by default. I hate that it hijacks the phone number. It should be opt in and the potential problems should be explained if you enable the feature. This really can be a pain in the tukhus.
Again, this theory may not be correct in this particular case, but the purgatory is real and incredibly frustrating.