Using the imessage to send a message may seem a lot better compared to using the sms to send a text message on an iphone, but you may find yourself in a situation whereby you will require to send a message using the cellular sms.
This brings about this post.
How do i switch between text message and imessage?
To switch between text message and imessage on iphone, you simply have to enable send as sms on your iPhone in order to switch between text message and iMessage.
If you have send as sms when imessage is unavailable enabled on your iPhone, you shouldn’t bother manually switching between sms text message and iMessage on your iPhone as it will automatically send sms text message when iMessage is unavailable on your iPhone.
But nevertheless, I will show you how you can quickly do that after sending iMessages on your phone.
Let’s move further into ways which you can seamlessly switch between text message and imessage on iphone or iPad.
Now let’s jump in.
How do i switch between text message and imessage?
To switch between text message and iMessage on iPhone, all you have to do is to press hold on the sent iMessage and you will see Send as text message appear, tap on it and it will send the iMessage as sms text message.
For a detailed explanation, after sending an iMessage and notices that the message is not yet delivered to the recipient and which you want to send the text as sms text message using the cellular network service.
Now open the conversation and press hold on the sent iMessage. You will be presented with options which includes Send as text message.
Go ahead and tap on send as text message and the sent iMessage will be sent as sms text message which will be green in color.
Remember that you have a maximum of five minutes else you won’t be able to see the send as text message option after five minutes has passed.
If you don’t want to do it manually, you can let iMessage send text as sms text message and this will require you to enable send as sms on your iPhone.
Once you enable send as sms on your iPhone, if you happen to send an iMessage which wasn’t getting delivered to the recipient, iMessage will send the text as sms text message after five minutes has passed.
GETTING STARTED:
Open the settings app, scroll down to Messages and open it.
On the next page, kindly scroll down to Send as SMS and make sure the button is turned on it enabled on your iPhone as shown in the picture below.
Once send as sms is enabled on your iPhone, if you send an iMessage that is not getting delivered to the recipient, after five minutes the iMessage will be resent as sms text message.
Below the text message you will see Sent as text message as the text message will be green in color.
Remember that you must have an active sim card or eSim, a texting plan or airtime, and a cellular network service before you can send sms text message on your iPhone.
This is how to switch between text message and imessage on iPhones.
Anothee method is to entirely disable iMessage on your iPhone especially if you no longer want to send iMessages on your iPhone and even to someone using iMessage or iPhone.
If you don’t fancy sending the text message using the iMessage and prefers to use only sms text message on your iPhone, velow is how to disable imessage on iphone.
- Open the settings app on your phone.
- Scroll down to messages and tap to open.
- Look closely you will see where it states send as sms.
- Kindly enable the feature by toggling on the button.
- Still on the screen you will see imessage, this time you have to turn off the imessage by toggling on the button.
That’s it. You have successfully enabled send as sms on your iPhone and you can seamlessly send a text message by simply using the sms feature which involves the cellular network service.
You may not neccesarily enable send as sms because if iMessage is disabled on an iPhone, all text messages will be sent as text message even to a fellow iPhone and iMessage user.
You can read more:
- What does send as sms when imessage is unavailable mean (Explained)
- How to tell if someone deleted your iMessage?
How to switch from sms to imessage
To switch from sms to imessage, you have to open the settings app, scroll down to messages and tap to open, you will see sends as sms and kindly turn off the feature.
Once you have done that, you can’t send a text message on on your iPhone, but will only send an iMessage.
Another way to switch from sms to imessage is by first sending the message as a text message, press hold on the message and you will see an option to send as an iMessage.
All in all remember to enable the imessage on your iPhone to be able to switch to imessage from text.
How to switch from imessage to sms on iphone requires you to enable sends as sms on your iPhone or iPad, upon sending the message, press hold on the sent message and tap on sent as text message.
Reasons to switch between text message and imessage
The major reason to switch between text message and imessage is when sending a message to a non iphone user like android or feature phone.
You cannot send an iMessage to an android phone user and a feature phone user. To send a message to an android phone user or feature phone user, you must enable send as sms on your iPhone and iPad.
The second reason to switch between text message and imessage is when there’s no internet connection on iphone and iPad.
Imessage works with internet connection so if there’s no internet connection on your iPhone or iPad, you must use the sms feature to send a message. Even if you’re having a poor internet connection, you may find it hard time using the imessage to send a message on your iPhone and iPad.
Imessage vs SMS which is better?
There’s no doubt that iMessage is way better as it is very economical compared to sms text message though you cannot send an iMessage to a non apple user like the android phone.
With imessage, you can send files, documents, audio files, videos and pictures in high quality, know when someone is typing to you, know when someone has read your sent message, etc
On green sms text message on iPhone, there’s no delivery report, read receipt and you can’t send large files like videos, pictures, documents, etc.
As long as you are sending a text message to someone not using an Android phone or any of these feature classic phone, I don’t see the reason why you shouldn’t use iMessage to send a text to someone using iMessage and iPhone.
It is quite annoying that iPhone green text message doesn’t have a delivery report which makes it difficult to know if a recipient received the text message.
Also there is no read receipt which is pretty much available on iMessage.
iMessage is the best over sms as it is economical and has texting features compared to sms text message.
How to switch from text message to imessage?
Kindly note that you cannot switch from text to iMessage but rather from iMessage to sms text message which is green in color.
Once you sent an sms text message on your iPhone, you can’t reverse it or change it to iMessage except if you send a new text message.
But you can switch from iMessage to sms text message but that will be five minutes after sending the text message or the iMessage.
You can read more:
- Does imessage turn green when blocked? Answered
- What does it mean when imessage doesn’t say delivered? Explained
- Does a sent as text message mean the other person will see the text
- What does delivered mean on iPhone (All you need to know)
With all these, you have seen it all on how do i switch between text message and imessage on iphone and iPad in a seamlessly way without stress or difficulty.
