Got my email yesterday confirming my Kompakt is Packed New (whatever that means exactly), excellent!
Anyway, I will chiefly be using SMS on the Kompakt as I’m quitting Whatsapp altogether. I barely use iMessage here in the UK, but I recall going from iOS to Android you have to do something specific with iMessage. Is it simply a matter of signing out of iMessage on the iPhone, or are there further steps so SMS’s will come through okay to the Mudita? I remember there were lawsuits against Apple years ago due to how difficult they made it for people to go iOS —> Android, but I presume it’s a simple process now hopefully.
Even though I do not have Mudita yet I was a fan of the phones and been testing most of the ones in the market since 2010 both android iOS Windows Phone and every smaller system, there never was or is anything you need to do, iMessage is a function that kicks in once it recognised that contact is also using iPhone sends sms message through WiFi/lte connection, it is only apple ecosystem thing and once you plug your SIM card in android or any other system your sms will be sent from this system therefore not interacting with iMessage at all because it does not exist there.
Also from your contact side, their next sms will be delivered as an sms instead of iMessage.
This change also is being triggered instantly without any action required from your side once you disable internet connection on your iPhone, it stops iMessage and uses normal sms even between iPhones.
Thanks for the responses, appears to be quite simple.
I wasn’t imagining there was a problem in the past, it was over a decade ago now. It was raised in 2014, but the case went nowhere judging by the article a year later.
To be honest I have been using both android and iPhones and never had any issues with both in terms of my messages reaching my contact.
Also disabling iMessage in iPhone is easy and just requires couple touches in settings, maybe I don’t remember because if it happened I probably just turned it off.
It was a big thing back then when each sms message had a cost, now it’s all free so there is no point in iMessage.
@eden that’s good to know! I was just trying to cover all bases. I’ve read that some Grapheneos users needed to turn off RCS and IMessage because they were having such problems getting SMS. I know two different Os’s but I thought same logic would apply haha
@anon80904485 actually I might be wrong about that, I was sure it was fine but it might be best to disable RCS in your settings also before moving your sim to the kompakt. Sorry if I gave bad info there
To get ready for Kompakt, I have already deactivated my phone number on both iMessage and FaceTime. People who have my email can still communicate with me that way, since I have a Mac and use FaceTime as an alternative to Zoom. For those I communicated with on iMessage who don’t have my email, it appears that messages are sent as normal SMS, and I’m okay with that. In the long run, I might completely turn it off.
I mean… iMessage is an sms that’s being sent through internet instead of your SIM card provider, nothing more. It always sends sms when you have no internet and only works when you enable internet connection. No need to disable it or do anything, just put your SIM card in the new phone and done
Unfortunately that is not always the case. When I went from iPhone to Android and I did not deregister iMessage and none of my SMS went through on current convos to iPhone users. I had to deregister and all of the group chats I was in had to start a new chat or I would not receive any texts. At least here in the US.
So I’ve been using both systems for years, changing basically every few weeks, and never had any issues, also never heard of anyone having any issues, iMessage is set up to trigger when you turn it on and it recognises that your friend also has iPhone, it instantly turn off when you turn off your WiFi/lte and phone will send sms, even when you send an iMessage and manage to disable WiFi while it is being sent it will change instantly and send sms, that’s how it works and that’s how it was designed. As Steve jobs said „it’s that simple”, you don’t need to think about it at all.
So no worries, just put your SIM card in different phone and this new phone doesn’t know that his owner previously had an iPhone and it won’t disable sms
@sarten I’m glad it works for you but that’s not true for everyone and not even what Apple recommends. “It just works” is true if you stay in the Apple eco system.
Apple recommends disabling iMessage to ensure you continue to receive sms messages from iPhone users
I’d like to check if my understanding is correct. I have an iPhone 13 mini and have an MK on the way. On my iPhone, iMessage is enabled and set to use my AppleID rather than my phone number. My inner circle are mostly Apple users. I would like if they could still send images and videos to my iPhone using iMessage, so they’re waiting for me when I come home, but I would those contacts to be able to send me SMS on my MK. I don’t think that’s possible, is it? I imagine that as long as my Apple device had iMessage enabled, when my circle message me, their devices will automatically default to iMessage, rather than SMS. So, I’d be siloed. Is that so?
I had to deactivate iMessage on my iPhone before removing my sim when I changed to the light phone 2 a couple years ago so I’m assuming I’ll do that again when my kompakt arrives. I had huge issues with my texts not getting to me from people who had iPhones until I did that.
