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lovesaturn Author

Level 1

30 points

Unable to text my Mother to her Android phone from my iPhone 13 post iOS 18 update.

I just updated my phone to IOS 18 and everything has been fine, but my mom has an Android phone and my phone doesn't let me text her cell phone number. She has an iPhone 15 as her work phone and whenever I text her cell phone number it automatically corrects to her work phone number even though I have deleted and blocked her work number multiple times. Whenever I text her cell phone number the messages send green because it is an Android, but then she will text me back saying I am texting her work phone. This problem is recent because the first couple of days after I updated my phone to IOS 18 it was working fine, I don't know what happened.

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iPhone 13, iOS 18

Posted on Sep 30, 2024 5:34 AM

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d_pry

Level 1

20 points

Posted on Oct 6, 2024 2:01 PM

I have tried EVERYTHING suggested to resolve this issue and I’m still unable to text my husband (android). It has to do with the recent update! Prior to the IOS 18 update I had no issues texting him. Please help! This is very frustrating!!

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Paulstil

Level 1

12 points

Oct 4, 2024 12:16 PM in response to thilahar144

How?

Oct 5, 2024 11:57 AM in response to Hmhorne

Let me know too!

Oct 5, 2024 3:14 PM in response to pattee830

I’ve spent my whole Saturday tryna figure this out literally nothing is working at all smhhhhhhh I can’t even add a email to substitute my iMessage because it just keeps saying failed over an over

sharay07

Level 1

8 points

Oct 7, 2024 7:09 AM in response to lovesaturn

This was happening to me !! I installed the newer IOS 18.1 and my messaging app was working again!! I hope this helps<3

Hmhorne

Level 1

20 points

Oct 7, 2024 7:16 AM in response to Xxxtevicion

Apple Support website? Need a little more details.

Hmhorne

Level 1

20 points

Oct 7, 2024 8:13 AM in response to Xxxtevicion

Well, didn't work for me. Apple still saying its an AT&T issue with their cellular network and the SMS system. Now I am waiting on AT&T support to call me back.

Hmhorne

Level 1

20 points

Oct 9, 2024 8:52 AM in response to lovesaturn

UPDATE: I called AT&T support. Took about 30 minutes but they fixed it!! It was some behind the scenes function that I somehow didn't have/they didn't have connected for me.

Oct 9, 2024 3:42 PM in response to Ccbhs

I just turned RCS off and kept MMS off on my iPhone. My husband and I can now text back and forth. Hope this helps someone else.

NannaMee

Level 1

8 points

Oct 13, 2024 9:31 AM in response to KirstenDE

Didn’t work for me

NannaMee

Level 1

8 points

Oct 13, 2024 9:32 AM in response to KirstenDE

How do you manually resend when you keep getting the same error message?

meisam49

Level 1

26 points

Oct 15, 2024 4:24 AM in response to lovesaturn

IOS 18 Update Makes it Difficult to Text

Oct 15, 2024 8:06 AM in response to Paulstil

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.

Oct 20, 2024 10:55 AM in response to pattee830

we have the phone SE

VonRale

Level 1

26 points

Oct 20, 2024 11:52 AM in response to Xxxtevicion

i’m not seeing this option, can you walk me through it please.

Oct 25, 2024 12:58 PM in response to KirstenDE

Worked for me as well. Some of my friends on Android had no problem sending but others had to manually switch to sms each time. Turning off RCS let me send iMessage to everyone.

Unable to text my Mother to her Android phone from my iPhone 13 post iOS 18 update.