Comment on Google turns to regulators to make Apple open up iMessage
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 months agoYou say iMessage isn’t an opt-out service, then immediately state the setting option that allows users to opt out. Yes, if you toggle off iMessage you will send via SMS instead and won’t be sending through iMessage at all.
dojan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ha, what a blooper. What I meant was that you’re never presented with an option to send via text rather than iMessage, but have to dig through the settings app to change it.
EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. Though all my experience with an active apple device, there’s a default to send a failed iMessage as an SMS so it’s essentially covered. iMessage just allows like-devices to communicate via internet connection rather than phone towers.
dojan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ah that’s probably the case here too. I just don’t text people, or use iMessage very much.