Texts from Iphone

[Dawn Peshinski]

I need help. Whenever I receive a long text from an iPhone the text comes through as 5,6,7, etc individual messages and all out of order. My time/date is already on automatic so that's not the issue. What can I do to correct this??

 

[ocnbrze]

not sure if it is just your phone. there is something with iphones that sometimes don't text correctly when going from iphone to android. i never touched an apple product so i can't say exactly, but it is my experience that this is so. i always get them late or in small chunks like you. (mine come in the correct sequence)

 

[Hadron]

Yeah, this is almost certainly a problem with the iPhone, either a limitation of the iMessage app itself or it being configured wrong by the user (who has probably never touched the settings).

Apple don't give a priority to it working well with other platforms as their users will often assume it's the other platform that doesn't work right and so won't want to switch (sad, but they have history there: it took 3 years and 2 class action suits for them to address the most severe problem, and that one had certainly driven a lot of switchers back to them and probably put others off). You could try talking to one of the iPhone owners and seeing whether iMessage has any settings related to this - we don't have an iPhone in my household so I can't check myself, and while 2 of my brothers use iPhones we mainly use WhatsApp anyway so don't encounter such issues.

 

[Clementine_3]

seeing whether iMessage has any settings related to this

They have to make sure the SMS and MMS options are selected. It should solve the problem you describe but if there is an MMS with a lot of iPhones and someone hasn't updated the settings it'll still get broken. Apple and iMessage = GRRRR