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Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:15:05 GMT

Hi - first time here and I hopes somebody can help.

I have an Iphone 4s. Up until recently it worked fine but recently if I send somebody a text message most people receive it as an email sent from my phone number.

It has my phone number as the sender and the receiver gets an email from me saying something like "you have received a picture message" from and my phone number.

Can anybody advsise what I need to do to fix ths please.

I have researched this on the net but nothing I've done so far seems to make it work.

Thanks for your help

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

jonsie — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:17:18 GMT

In the SMS/MMS settings make sure the Show Subject Field is off.

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:19:59 GMT

Hi thanks for the speedy reply. Yes it is off already.

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

jonsie — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:45:35 GMT

It sounds as though their email accounts are somehow linked in your contacts. Try removing the email address, you can always add it back again.

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 15:49:49 GMT

Thanks for the reply - but I cant really do that (without a lot of work) as this happens with lots of my contacts - not just the one contact.

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

jonsie — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:10:16 GMT

Meant just one contact:smileywink:

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 16:46:57 GMT

Thanks for the reply but I cant see what that will prove.

Some of my contacts have email addresses and some dont.

The problem is random in that some text messages will get through as text messages and some will get through as emails - them having/not having an email address in my phone doesnt appear to have any bearing on how they receive the message.

Very strange - but keep thinking! im grateful for your help.

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:40:06 GMT

Are you using iMessage as that used to happen to me. I unchecked my devices & deactivated iMessage & it hasn't happened since

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 18:58:56 GMT

Yes I am using iMessage.

I will give that a go... shame though as iMessage was useful....

Thank you

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 20:27:06 GMT

no problem, i found it useful until this happened to me then most of my imessages werent being delivered so i just use sms now

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:11:50 GMT

stuart1983, have you tried turning iMessage back on to see if the problem has gone away ?

zigandzag, have you also tried deleting your message history of the problem contact ?

The reason why I say this is because with iMessage, as soon as you send a non iMessage, it will create a new message history of your contact for SMS messages. You may see some blue iMessages in that history above the green SMS, but any further messages in that history will all be SMS/MMS messages.

You should also see 2 message history for that contact, 1 for iMessages and 1 for SMS/MMS. The SMS/MMS should be the latest one if the last message from your phone went as an SMS or MMS.

Now the fact that you say your friends are receiving emails, should only happen if you are sending MMS and their phone can't receive them, so it doesn't sound like the scenario I described above.

Have you asked your friends to send you a text or iMessage if they have an iPhone to see how it gets to you ?

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Nov 2012 22:24:28 GMT

yeah it was fine when i turned back on. it comes up with the email address of the sender

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 13:19:20 GMT

Hi Buffbuff thanks for the reply.

Yes I have tried deleting my message history for all problem contacts - it didnt work.

I dont have a problem receiving messages at all - its just sending out that is the problem.

Thanks

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 17:53:12 GMT

In Setting => Messages => Send & Receive, is your phone number ticked under Start new conversations from ?

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Nov 2012 20:00:40 GMT

Yes in "Send & Receive" my phone number is in there as the default.

I cannot see the box entitled "Start new conversations from"?

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 00:00:38 GMT

Ok, that's because you have only activated iMessage with your phone number and you're not using an Apple ID as well. I use an Apple ID as well as my phone number for iMessage and it gives me a Start New Conversations from section.

Don't worry about that now.

Is there an email address as well as your phone number showing in the You can be reached by iMessage at section ?

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 10:45:41 GMT

Hi Buffbuff thanks for your attempts at sorting this - I am very grateful.

In the "You can be reached at" boxes there are my 3 email addresses as well as my mobile number - but only the mobile number is ticked.

Thank you

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:36:16 GMT

Take off the email addresses & that should do it

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:48:17 GMT

No problem, however your iMessage is not setup as I would expect and I would like to try and understand what you are trying to achieve. Please can you tell me

1. Why you setup the 3 email addresses in iMessage ?

2. Do you have an iPad or Mac and want to receive iMessages on those devices ?

3. Do you use any of the email addresses as an Apple ID for anything ?

4. Do you have an iCloud account ?

Re: Iphone 4s sending texts as emails

Anonymous — Tue, 13 Nov 2012 12:53:57 GMT

Hi both - again very grateful for your patience...

1 I dont know! I didn't set my phone up - I have removed them all now

2 Ipad yes - and yes would like to receive IMessages on that too

3 Yes one of the email addresses is used for my Apple ID

4 Yes - iCloud account is set up - but I have never used it.

Hope that helps - and thanks again.