iMessage

miikeeyy92 · 29 Jan 2013 at 19:35

Okay, so I have all 3, the iPhone, iPad and Mac.

I have iMessage set up on all 3 to send and receive from my number, but when my phone doesn't have internet, any iMessages get sent to my Mac and iPad anyways and so I don't get them on my phone until i connect to the internet.

Is there anyway to configure it so if they can't get to my phone they don't come at all until i get internet on my phone?

Thanks.

miikeeyy92 · 29 Jan 2013 at 20:12

Fantastic!

miikeeyy92 · 29 Jan 2013 at 20:54

shine said:
Instead of using your phone number setup an email address as your iMessage ID across all your devices. Use the email as your main sender/recipient and everything should sync as you want.

Wouldnt that end up as the same as it is now? Mac and iPad having internet so it goes to them when it cant go to my phone. I'll give it a try though, thanks.

miikeeyy92 · 30 Jan 2013 at 11:08

ic1male said:
I'm just wondering why this is a problem for you? At the end of the day you still get the message so why does it matter which devices get the message first?

Fair point, but there has been a few times that i've needed to know something and I only have my phone with me.

miikeeyy92 · 30 Jan 2013 at 22:16

MrMoonX said:
errr no, think of imessage as BBM if you have internet the sender's phone will send it as an imessage, when there is no internet it will know this as you wont be online to imessage and send it as a text.

This.

But as im online according to the iPad and the Mac, it sends as iMessage anyways, not SMS.

miikeeyy92 · 6 Feb 2013 at 23:41

kidscruff said:
As I understand it, an iMessage reverts to SMS at the time of sending (from an iPhone), only if it can't make the data connection to the Apple server. AFAIK it only looks at the sender's data connection, irrespective or whether the receiver has data or not.

Don't think Apple would ever convert a sent iMessage (data only) into an SMS, as this is messing with the network providers.

I believe miikeeyy92's problem is that iMessages are being sent to his number just fine, but because they are data messages he's not receiving them on his iPhone when he has no data connection.

It would make no difference whether he was using his phone number or email address as his Caller ID (they're linked anyway).

Turning off iMessage on the Mac and iPad wouldn't help either! Other iDevices would still be sending iMessages to the iPhone number, which would be stored until a data connection was re-established. So no device is receiving iMessages!

The only way he would receive messages on his iPhone, with no data, would be via SMS. In other words, turning off iMessage on the iPhone. This would likely remove the phone number as Caller ID for the iPad and Mac, leaving you with 2 separate points of contact: use phone number for SMS, and email address for iMessage.

This is sort of semi hitting the nail on the head.

Obviously I could turn iMessages off on everything, and so I would only receive SMS', however iMessages are very handy so thats not an option.

I think the only way round it is to turn wifi off on the iPad every time I leave, so the messages can't go there instead of my phone. (Mac would be asleep too.)