How to use iMessage for specific contacts?

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
Step 3: Scroll down and tap on Messages
Step 4: Scroll down and where it says ‘Show iMessage Alerts from:’, tap on ‘My Contacts Only’
You’re done. What really happens is, the iMessage app stops sending you notifications for messages that you get from unknown numbers.

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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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You need to delete here conversation and start another one using her phone number and not her Apple ID. You cannot delete iMessage, you can disable it. If the Apple server still sees her iPod with iMessage on and using her Apple ID, then it will continue to appear to your phone that she has iMessage. She needs to take a look at this support document about permanently disabling iMessage for her account. Can’t receive text messages on a non-Apple phone

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Sign in with whatever Apple ID desired on the device in iMessage setup.
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of course all 3 iphone 4s are using there own apple id's
all 3 did work when new
turned all off rebooted turned back on then 2 worked then stopped working a day later
other one is showing a an email address even though its set as phone number
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With iMessage, it is meant to show up on all your iOS devices and Mac. If you do not want them to go across all your devices, then you will need to turn off iMessage on your iPad and Mac Pro.
iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
Regards,
-Norm G.

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Hello apple communites, I have a simple and hopefully simple to answer question..
I am curious as to how to disable iMessaging for a single contact. My sister when she got her phone number originally had an iPhone, she has since gotten an android and kept the same phone number. However I am running into issues with text messages to her, my phone still thinks she has an iPhone and continues to send every text as an iMessage, resulting in a failed message. I can easily hit the "send again as a text message" option and the message/picture sends as normal. I however find this a bit fustrating, and have tried everything I can think of to attempt to disable this. However all the online tutorials I can find regarding disabling iMessage turns the feature off completly, I don't wish to do that.
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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New Apple ID - iCloud & iMessage (**** thing that I can't use my okd Apple ID for iMessage and another for iCloud) on new Mac
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Yeah the problem is that I want to be reachable by:
*new apple id
*mobile number
Earlier:
*old apple id
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Music is nothing to do with iCloud but Photostream is, so turn off Mail, Contacts and Calendars (in the iCloud Control Panel) and leave everything else on.
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Welcome to the Support Communities! There are two things I can think of to keep your Stepdad's information separate from yours on the computer and the iPad. On the computer, he should have his own administrative account, and on the iPad he needs his own Apple ID for iTunes and iCloud services. Here is some basic information to get started. I don't know if you have a Mac or Windows computer, so I'll include info for both.)
OS X Yosemite: Set up users on your Mac
http://support.apple.com/kb/PH18891
OS X Yosemite: Set up users on your Mac
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Click the lock icon to unlock it, then enter an administrator name and password.
Click Add below the list of users.
Click the New Account pop-up menu, then choose a type of user.
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Enter a full name for the new user. An account name is generated automatically. To use a different account name, enter it now—you can’t change it later.
Enter a password for the user, then enter it again to verify. Using a password hint is recommended to help the user remember his or her password.
Click Create User.
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http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203206
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Choose Start > Control Panel.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/PH2609
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