iMessage, iOS7 and Three

daveash · 25 Sep 2013 at 19:30

Hi all, I'm on the One Plan with Three using a 4S on iOS7. Every time I now try and send a picture message, it defaults to MMS rather than iMessage (the send button goes green). Text messages don't seem to have this problem.

Anyone else experiencing this? It's really annoying since MMS picture messages aren't included in the One Plan allowance. I'll easily rack up an extra £5 per month with the amount of picture messages I send.

Memphis · 25 Sep 2013 at 20:06

I'm afraid that fine here is all I can offer.

bloodiedathame · 25 Sep 2013 at 21:05

Email them?

squerble · 25 Sep 2013 at 21:34

Have you tried turning off "Send as SMS"? I'm presuming it will not use MMS in this case either...

Elrein · 25 Sep 2013 at 21:59

If the person your sending the message to has his/her data switched off or just not in at least an edge enabled area or even has iMessage switched off your messages will revert to SMS/MMS regardless so it could very well be not your issue at all.

Vita · 26 Sep 2013 at 08:28

Turn send as SMS off.

daveash · 26 Sep 2013 at 15:49

Thanks guys, turning off Send as SMS worked.

daveash · 26 Sep 2013 at 15:51

Also, it only happened between devices also on Three and I guarantee some of them had a data connection as I tested it with my Wife's phone who was also on our home WiFi. I wonder if Three are interfering with this in order to ramp up their One Plan bills?

Alpherah · 26 Sep 2013 at 15:54

Works fine here, from my experience it performs the check as soon as the message is received at three's servers - if at this point the recipient hasnt enough speed to receive the message as imessage then it will send as an mms.

daveash · 26 Sep 2013 at 17:14

Weird, she definitely had enough bandwidth.