IOS 18 Update Makes it Difficult to Text

I called Apple support. Waste of time. They had me try everything I had already tried and even did a network reset. Finally they said it’s must be a problem with your service provider, AT&T. I’m so frustrated!!! Can’t even get texts from company’s that need to send you a security number to get into like you bank accounts, etc! I have to give myself a moment before I try to call AT&T.

I had the same issue. I deleted the contact and then just made a new one with only her phone number. It was defaulting to the email attached to her iPad. Made a separate contact for email. It seems

to have fixed the issue.

I was able to get this to work on my recenlty updated iPhone 14 Pro Plus.

Turn off iMessage.

Turn on iMesage.

Turn off RCS Messaging.

Turn off iMessage.

Turn on iMessage.

Texting to an Android works for me.

Having the same issue, my old phone when updated to IOS18 and I just got a new iPhone 16 and it is doing the same thing. I’ve tried all the fixes suggested here and no luck. I hope they come out with an update to fix this!

After the IOS 18.0.1 update, I noticed iMessages to Android phones were failing. If I forced the failed message to resend as SMS, the text sent successfully. I think failures were actually happening before 18.0.1 but didn't investigate. When I checked the 18.0.1 message app settings, I found the RCS setting defaulted to On. I turned RCS off and rebooted the IPhone. Subsequent iMessage texts to Androids are now working.

Im literally downloading the new update. Will report back. Must have just dropped as I literally bought a new iPhone thinking it was an issue with older phones. Foolish of me. Fingers crossed it fixes the Android issue.

I cannot communicate with some Android users. And any group chat with Android users is useless for me as nothing gets through to anyone in the group.

Update: was told I would receive follow up in a day. Didn't hear back and reached out to them after a couple days. They said they had to spit the issue into three parts and "Unfortunately we are going to have to look at these issue separately even though they maybe connected in some way

Right now the expected response time for this would be 3 to 5 days"

Never heard back from them and it's now been 3 weeks. Haven't followed up as these are definitely bugs, and I doubt there's much that can be done on my end to help fix them.

I finally figured out how to fix this issue!!! You have to go to the message thread, go into their profile (from the top of the message), click on their info and then it seems to change your settings... it's almost like it's filtering your messages to not send cuz there is a glitch with your contact. I have 2 lines, one is an e-sim and it seems to be until I go into their profile like I'm going to edit it... I also noticed if I change from one number to the other and back, that also fixed it... Super strange...

I was able to get this to work on my recenlty updated iPhone 14 Pro Plus.

1. Turn off iMessage.
2. Turn on iMesage.
3. Turn off RCS Messaging.
4. Turn off iMessage.
5. Turn on iMessage.

Texting to an Android works for me.

I was able to get this to

work on my recenlty updated iPhone 14 Pro Plus.

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3. Turn
4. off iMessage.
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8. Turn on
9. iMesage.
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13. Turn
14. off RCS Messaging.
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18. Turn
19. off iMessage.
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23. Turn on
24. iMessage.
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Texting to an Android works

for me.

Similar problem for me. Since the update I can no longer text my husband who has an android but I can receive texts from him. Ridiculous!

Hopefully they fix this soon

Does anyone know or tried the new update iOS 18.1 to fix the texting issues with Android users? I can’t send or receive a text from Android users. I’m running iPhone 11.

not yet carrier says its apple problem apple says its carrier problem

Went to my carrier and they said it is not their problem. I spent over an hour on the phone with Apple care and they said MMS is a carrier issue so i should try changing sim card and last resort back up and restore the phone