on 10-03-2020 11:52
10-03-2020 12:10 - edited 10-03-2020 12:13
10-03-2020 12:10 - edited 10-03-2020 12:13
Hi @Sue15
Have a look at this thread Guide: Accidental MMS Sending and How to Avoid it and take note of this part
Adding “Emoticons”
An emoticon is a smiley face, a thumbs up or any other tiny picture that many people like to add to their SMS messages.
THESE ARE THE BIGGEST SINGLE SOURCE OF ACCIDENTAL MMS SENDING.
Adding an emoticon by itself won’t, in many cases, force the message into MMS format, but, what it will do, is eat up your character count.
A simple smiley face or wink will use 90 characters.
With this in mind it is easy to see how just by adding 3 emoticons actually reduces your character count to only 210 letters (that’s not much!)
You can avoid this by inserting a smiley using keyboard characters rather than hitting the emoticon key and choosing a picture. A smile can be written as : ) or a wink as ; )
On some phones you will find 2 versions of emoticons (pretty ones and basic ones).
The basic ones will use less characters but you should always keep your eye on character count and auto MMS conversion.
Hope that helps and welcome to the forum
Veritas Numquam Perit
on 10-03-2020 12:13
on 10-03-2020 12:13
If you didn't send an mms (and it's not showing as such on your phone) you should contact customer service and ask for the charges to be refunded Guide: How to find help & contact O2
on 16-03-2020 12:26
on 16-03-2020 12:26
Hey @Sue15 did you find out what had caused the MMS charges in the end?
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on 17-03-2020 11:15
on 17-03-2020 11:29
on 17-03-2020 11:29
Please note, this is not customer services and we cannot access your account. Do not publish personal details (email, phone number, bank account).
Link to our guide on how to contact them can be found here
on 17-03-2020 11:43
on 17-03-2020 11:43
Were you in the UK at the time of the message or abroad?
on 17-03-2020 18:52