So I've always owned an iPhone and decided to make the switch to a samsung galaxy note5. This is the best phone I have owned and I love it. However i am getting messaging problems from iPhone users(a lot of the people I talk to have iphones). I either get a message from "anonymous" or "unknown address", and the message just says "message not found" or "no subject". I really don't want to trade this phone in for another iphone just because of this stupid problem. Is there an app or something that will fix this? I get the same thing with textra too. Also, I've tried to read about finding out a way to receive group texts from iphones. They can see my text but I can't see theres. I've seen people online saying "this worked, that worked" and then other people say it doesn't work. So I haven't found a solution, is there a possible way (without getting everybody to get in an app) to receive group texts from iphones? If these two problems have solutions please share! I don't know if it can be an app to solve it or something in a settings, thanks.
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Two things that may help:
Go into your Apple account and sign out of iMessage (not sure if that's online or on the phone?).
Have your friends enable SMS/MMS in their settings, it says 'send as SMS' and there is another for MMS and/or group. Depends on the iOS version but make sure they enable those.
Textra should work if all is right on the other Apple end. Most of my family have iPhones and it's a never-ending battle frankly. It shouldn't be this hard to communicate but it is. Apple needs to have all of that set right by default, or just kill iMessage
edit: Oh and. Check your settings in Textra. I know Chomp (related to Textra) has a setting for 'use as MMS for group messaging', make sure that's checked.
Go into your Apple account and sign out of iMessage (not sure if that's online or on the phone?).
Have your friends enable SMS/MMS in their settings, it says 'send as SMS' and there is another for MMS and/or group. Depends on the iOS version but make sure they enable those.
Textra should work if all is right on the other Apple end. Most of my family have iPhones and it's a never-ending battle frankly. It shouldn't be this hard to communicate but it is. Apple needs to have all of that set right by default, or just kill iMessage
edit: Oh and. Check your settings in Textra. I know Chomp (related to Textra) has a setting for 'use as MMS for group messaging', make sure that's checked.
The commonest message problem from iPhones is if you didn't sign out of iMessage when you still had your iPhone. What happens then is that the other person's iPhone thinks you are still using iOS and tries to send you an iMessage rather than an SMS. Since Apple choose to keep iMessage iOS only this means you never receive the messages. The bit about not receiving group messages from iPhone owners made me think of this, but the other stuff doesn't sound like this problem. Nevertheless it might be worth checking. There is now(*) a solution to this if you don't have your iPhone: a quick web search brought up this, which looks worth a go.
Interestingly your problem with "unknown messages" sounds similar to one that has been affecting apple users with ATT. I don't know whether this is really related, just passing on something that caught my eye.
To be honest, SMS is a network standard thing. If you are having problems with messages only from iPhones it does mean that it's the iPhones that are at fault: if they were complying with the standard then it wouldn't matter what phone you have. The question is really how to solve this.
(*) Since about a year ago. The problem was known for many years, but Apple only actually acted when faced with a class action lawsuit. I guess it suited them for the problem not to be fixed, since many switchers would assume that it was their new phone that didn't work and switch back...
Interestingly your problem with "unknown messages" sounds similar to one that has been affecting apple users with ATT. I don't know whether this is really related, just passing on something that caught my eye.
To be honest, SMS is a network standard thing. If you are having problems with messages only from iPhones it does mean that it's the iPhones that are at fault: if they were complying with the standard then it wouldn't matter what phone you have. The question is really how to solve this.
(*) Since about a year ago. The problem was known for many years, but Apple only actually acted when faced with a class action lawsuit. I guess it suited them for the problem not to be fixed, since many switchers would assume that it was their new phone that didn't work and switch back...
