How to disable iMessage for certain contacts

I was wondering how to disable iMessage for certain contacts!

Try deleting the phone number from the persons contact and then re-entering it as a new number.
You don't have to delete the entire contact.
Worked for me.

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    I have attempted to completely delete, (including all existing all texts and call history), and then re-add the contact, but that does not work either, my iPhone still attempts to send messages to my sister as an iMessge. Any help, if any, would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

    Your sister needs to disable iMessage on her iPhone if the iPhone is still available if she hasn't already done so.
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    I'm thinking this is impossible, but I thought I'd post and see if I could get an answer. I am running short on data and have unlimited texts and therefore I turned iMessage off because I don't have access to WiFi anywhere. But I found out that it's the only way that I can contact some friends that are out of the country. Is there a way that I can enable iMessage only for those people and leave it disabled for everyone else? I've looked through the forums and searched for the answer, but I can't even find someone who has the same problem as me. Any help would be appreciated.

    Won't call this a great solution, but it solves the problem, causing inconvenience in another way!
    Step 1: Remove the contact (if he/she is already listed under your contacts) from your iPhone. Make sure that if you sync to iCloud or iTunes, you have the contact removed from your cloud/backup too.
    Step 2: Now, open Settings -> Notifications on your iPhone
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    Step 4: Scroll down and where it says ‘Show iMessage Alerts from:’, tap on ‘My Contacts Only’
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    Is this possible?  Sometimes, I love never missing a text from certain people.  But for the majority, I don't need their texts going to my iPad, iPhone, Laptop, AND MacPro all at once.  It's annoying having to delete them on each device.

    Hi TimWB0216,
    You can use the steps in this article to block certain people from sending you messages -
    Messages (Mavericks): Block or allow messages
    http://support.apple.com/kb/PH15035
    At this time the people who are blocked are not synced across devices, so you would have to do this on each device. Your idea about doing so sounds interesting, however. You may want to submit it as feedback to Apple. Use this website -
    iPhone feedback
    http://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html
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    Apple’s Unsolicited Idea Submission Policy
    http://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/policies/ideas.html
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