How can I stop my iPhone from texting to an email address instead of a phone number? It is not an iMessage account.
My phone will select an email (not an iMessage account) to send a text to instead of sending it to the phone number. At times it lets me select one of the two but often does not. Especially in group messages. Any suggestions? It is getting really annoying.
I agree that it is a hardware issue and I would have replaced, but losing service was something I just delt with over the years, but now with iOS 8, its becoming a problem. Plus with the release of the iPhone 6...
I just thought I missed a software setting that would block activating on Cellular Data or something similar to that.
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