Help! After adding Apple ID to laptop messages/ichat but then disabling, I cannot receive texts on phone from the only person whose text went to my laptop before disabling apple ID
After I updated to Mavericks on my macbook pro, I added my Apple ID on the messages/ichat. After receiving one text on laptop, I decided I didn't like havinng text messages show up there and not my iphone, so I disabled the Apple ID account on the ichat/messages. Only now, I can't get texts on my iphone from same person whose text went to my laptop before disabling the account on ichat. Any ideas?
Hi, just wondering if you ever fixed your issue? I'm having the same issue right now and after some google searches yours is the closest to my issue (other threads are mostly about people who have changed phones)
I've never had iMessage turned on for my phone, but ever since I updated my laptop to mavericks, people with iphones have sent me messages and it's become the imessage blue. I am not receiving them on my phone (since I don't have imessage turned on). So I realised that the iMessage was going to my computer instead, even though the computer was turned off. I disabled the account on the computer (pretty much as Ralph Johns (UK) instructed above) and then signed out to make sure. However a lot of people who are texting me still find that they are sending me imessages which I am not receiving.
I also changed my apple password. That seemed to work for a day, then the auto imessage started again.
I've checked icloud and logged into my apple ID to check that no other devices are registered on for imessage. I've also called apple support and they confirmed that my imessage was not registered at all. Their solution was to tell all my friends who have iphones to make sure some settings were correct on their phone, and to delete our conversation thread and start again with sms. Which, in my opinion, is a bit of a sloppy solution.
After some more google searches I found someone say the solution was to send a text to 48369 with the word STOP. And apparently that deregisters your imessage number. But I think that must be an american number as I sent a text and had an unsuccesful delivery tag (I'm based in Australia). And anyway, if apple support said that my number isn't registered to imessage, i shouldn't need to de-register again right?
Any insight on what is actually happening would be great! Thanks.
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