After all this online drama over something as silly as green bubbles, I just discovered their power. I had a brief power outage and apparently my cell provider had degraded service, so I had no data and text messages didn’t go through. Then I tried a green bubble conversation and it worked.

SMS worked, when data and iMessage did not. So how can I do that on purpose? I don’t know if this is a normal occurrence but the next time I have degraded service with no data, does anyone know if there is a way to SMS to fellow iPhone users?

    • @[email protected]
      17•1 year ago

      This fully de-registers your number for iMessage, I wouldn’t suggest this.

      Instead when a message doesn’t send, simply press and hold and choose send as SMS and it will temporarily keep the chat green for a while.

        • @AA5BOP
          1•1 year ago

          Cool thanks. That’s exactly what I was looking for

      • @AA5BOP
        2•1 year ago

        That’s what “Send as Text Message” means? I wish they had mentioned SMS somewhere: I just assumed it was redundant text for sending a text message

  • @pacologyEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    You can also activate “send as sms” in the messages page to fallback to sms when blue bubbles don’t work.

    • @AA5BOP
      1•1 year ago

      Thanks, that’s exactly what I was looking for

    • kirklennon
      7•1 year ago

      Person asks how to use SMS when they don’t have data service, gets recommendation for an app that requires data service.