Over last few of months 2 things happened with some of my friends in terms of their cell phone handsets.
- Some of them got fed up with IOS and switched to Android
- Some of them got fed up with Android and switched to IOS specifically Iphone 5s
So, what is the significance of these 2 events. For those who do not know, Apple supports something called Imessage between IOS devices (Iphone, Ipad or Ipod) and it introduced this with IOS 5 and it is free. For people like me who refuse to sign up for a text plan it was a good deal. Now we have alternatives like whatsapp and all so it is not so big a deal, but not everybody in my contact list are on whatsapp either.
Now back to the events, because of event 1 I was unable to text message my friends any more and it always came up with “Imessage delivery failed”. In event 2 I wasn’t able to send my friends Imessages, no reason it should not work as according to Apple any IOS 5 or higher devices should be able to use Imessage.
I was hoping Dr. Google would provide answers but they said “Sorry, you are on your own”. I tried deleting phone numbers of these specific friends and re-entering the same but no use either.
On a final try I deleted the contact of the friend who switched to Android completely and recreated the contact again. And the miracle happened, I was able to send text messages to this new Android friend and at the same time was able to send Imessages to friends who had switched to Iphone 5s.
If you were encountering problems like me and if the above solution works in your case too, will you please let me know?
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