Apple in his statement Red/code officially acknowledged the problem with iMessage, which affects customers who switch from iPhone to another phone without deactivating the feature iMessage. News iMessage then they are never delivered to these users because iPhone continues to use iMessage protocol for a telephone number that the customer no longer uses iPhone, but on a different phone. The customer will lose messages sent to them by other users.
"We recently got on the server side iMessage "We have discovered a bug that is causing issues for some users and we will be releasing a fix in the next software update," a company spokesperson said Apple for Re/code and added: "Users who have this problem can contact AppleCare. " It's a bit strange, isn't it Apple will fix the bug he discovered on his server by releasing an update for iOS device, but the main thing still remains that this problem will soon disappear.
It seems like it's on my head. It's like if the window manufacturers had to write on the rant "With the window closed, the other side can't hear you."
If the sender has "Send as SMS" checked in the Messages settings when not reachable on iMessage, then there's nothing to worry about! The message will be sent in green, like an SMS.
And to top it all off, I know from experience that if the owner iPhone (iMessage) changes the phone, the sender will automatically see a green window for a classic SMS message, and not a blue one for iMessage.
So what is still going on in this case? Thanks for the reasonable arguments and answers. I don't understand it myself.
This is exactly how I have it set up.. but my friend switched from iPhone on WP and it took a long time for my phone to understand that it should send text messages as SMS and not as iMessage, which of course didn't come to him.. and after each sent text message I had to click on it and press "Send as text message"
But that's it. iPhone compared :)
This happens to me too, the problem is mainly with the recipient who only has data via wifi, so they are not online 100% time... If there are moments without data, maybe even a few minutes, imessage usually it goes away, but sometimes it doesn't even reach the addressee... or it arrives at their iPhone, but not on the iPad with the same account... So it's not 100% reliable, you can't rely on it... I've been preferring it lately iMessage turned off and I only rely on text messages
Unfortunately, I'm not a hacker and I don't dig into source codes. iOS, but from experience from other projects I know where the problem is. It is easy to fix, but it will increase the message "header" by a few bits. It may seem like nothing, but with those billions of messages. Adding and evaluating one attribute can cause quite an extreme problem. Such an addition of 1% of the load with such a volume of evaluation can reach a performance that can accommodate half of a data center. When planning sufficient performance for about 3 years in advance. And that Apple think it through and have to go through Tim, etc.