After all this online drama over something as silly as green bubbles, I just discovered their power. I had a brief power outage and apparently my cell provider had degraded service, so I had no data and text messages didn’t go through. Then I tried a green bubble conversation and it worked.

SMS worked, when data and iMessage did not. So how can I do that on purpose? I don’t know if this is a normal occurrence but the next time I have degraded service with no data, does anyone know if there is a way to SMS to fellow iPhone users?

    • mmmmmsoup@lemmy.today
      17·
      11 months ago

      This fully de-registers your number for iMessage, I wouldn’t suggest this.

      Instead when a message doesn’t send, simply press and hold and choose send as SMS and it will temporarily keep the chat green for a while.

      • AA5B@lemmy.worldOP
        2·
        11 months ago

        That’s what “Send as Text Message” means? I wish they had mentioned SMS somewhere: I just assumed it was redundant text for sending a text message

      • nia_the_cat@lemmy.blahaj.zone
        2·
        11 months ago

        To add, there’s a toggle for Send as SMS in that same settings menu in the top comment, when that’s enabled it’ll automatically fallback to SMS when a message fails to send after a short delay.