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I'm not getting text messages from certain people

IDP — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 11:45:46 GMT

Hi,

I'm not getting text messages from certain people. I can send to them, but their replies are not getting through. We can phone each other and they are not blocked on my phone, nor am I on theirs. They are on different networks.

Checked with O2 and it’s not a ‘network issue’ as there are apparently no problems on my account.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

MI5 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:02:27 GMT

Double check you haven't added them to spam.
The spam list is usually found in the text message app settings as opposed to the normal blocking settings.

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

IDP — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:13:37 GMT

Hi,

That was the first thing I checked :0(

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

MI5 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:16:17 GMT

Maybe they are having a problem sending them?

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

IDP — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:20:14 GMT

They can send to other people .....

You can see why I'm confused.

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

MI5 — Fri, 02 Mar 2018 12:24:53 GMT

Yeah, no logic to it at all.....

A couple of things to try.

1 - Take sim out and give it a wipe with a dry cloth.

2 - Manually select Vodafone network and wait for it to fail, then reselect O2 and see if that pushes them through.

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

IDP — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 11:20:11 GMT

[SOLVED]

One word. iMessage

Worked with some people, not others. (All were using iPhones).

Turned it off, problems went away.

The thing is, I hadn't turned it on in the first place as I don't like the concept. Naughty upgrade perhaps ....

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

MI5 — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 11:25:12 GMT

So the vital piece of info was missing

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

Cleoriff — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 11:29:36 GMT

Well that explains it then....

Re: I'm not getting text messages from certain people

jonsie — Sun, 04 Mar 2018 23:55:58 GMT

Nicely worked out @IDP 😉

Of course we don't have such problems with Android.....😁

#justsayin'