HT1688 Blocking iMessages & texts
How do I block I-messages and/or texts on my I-phone. Particularl numbers? Thanks.
Open the contact you want to block. Scroll down. Tap "Block this contact."
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Tap and hold the text you want to copy, then tap Copy.
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SMS is exchanged over the same network as calls - no data involved.
MMS requires data.
iMessage requires the same as email - internet access via an available wi-fi network or via your carrier's cellular data network.
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hello out there. i have been told you can block imessage from another iphone users phone number. is this true. if so how do you do it. will they not receive the msg in text format anyway?
Flip42 is simi correct...However you cannot block a single person, you can turn off the whole imessage, this will make all messages text messages. If you are worried about someone getting your phone number you can make imessage your email instead and visa versa. Hope this helps.
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First off - i know there have been lots of threads similar to this. I've looked through those and tried the suggestions, but to no avail. I'm still left with the same issue.
I've switched back and forth between my iPhone and Android phones for a couple of years or so and never had any issues with iMessage - until iOS 7.0.3.
Since 7.0.3 i have not been able to receive any iMessages/Texts from friends while in a group chat on my Android device. I can send them and my friends receive them, but i cannot receive from them. I get individual texts/iMessages fine, just not group and only when it's from an iPhone. I am able to receive group messages from Blackberry, Android and Windows devices.
The catch. I gave up on iPhone and officially jumped ship to the Moto X before 7.0.3 was released and i COULD get group texts before 7.0.3.
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I have unregistered the iPhone from my Apple profile/support account.
I have deleted all iPhone numbers from my iCloud contacts.
I have tried 4 different Android messaging applications.
I have the correct settings in Android.
I have called Apple and had them remove my phone number from iMessage.
I have made sure that my friends (one is actually my wife so i even did it myself on her phone) have it set to send SMS if iMessage is not available.
I have deleted my contact from my wife's phone, my wife's iPad and my wife's iCloud and then set it up again (as a mobile and not as an iPhone).
I've even called Verizon and Motorola both who believe, as do i, that this is an Apple issue since it only started when my friends installed 7.0.3.
I've ran out of ideas, and ran out of places to go since Apple's support only had the one suggestion which was for them to remove the phone number from iMessage.
I'm open to anything (except going back to iPhone since that would mean i need to splash out on a new phone again). However, i do have an iPhone 4 in my house that i could use if need to TEMPORARILY activate to do something else.I left words out while i was typing in a hurry.
I was saying that the friends of mine who are using the iPhone, have told me that other Android users that they group chat with, are also unable to receive group messages from them.
I think i have been able to narrow the issue down, after spending more time with Apple and with Verizon. Verizon had me text STOP to an Apple Short Code, which resulted in about 40 texts from my wife being delivered via the open group chat that we have with our friends.
To test that this resolved my issue, Verizon initiated a group chat from two test iPhones, which also resulted in success. I was also able to successfully group chat with 6 other groups of friends all with iPhones. I did the same test with a mix of Android and iPhone users too, with success.
Where it failed, was with the original couple. I am still unable to receive group chats from them, while my wife, who is in the same chat, does receive them. I do however, get the texts from my wife in that group chat. Very strange. So i am thinking it is something with their devices and not the fact that i switched from Apple to Android.
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Move a block of text from one document to another
How to make a script moving a block of text from a defined area to next document?
Here is the beast.
--[SCRIPT exportTextBlocks]
Save the script as a Script, an Application or an Application Bundle: exportTextBlocks.xxx
Move the newly created application into the folder:
<startup Volume>:Users:<yourAccount>:Library:Scripts:Applications:Pages:
Maybe you would have to create the folder Pages and even the folder Applications by yourself.
select something in the source document
menu Scripts > Pages > exportTextBlocks
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--=====
The Finder's Help explains:
To make the Script menu appear:
Open the AppleScript utility located in Applications/AppleScript.
Select the "Show Script Menu in menu bar" checkbox.
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Yvan KOENIG (Vallauris, FRANCE)
26 avril 2009
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Here it would be easy to edit it if required
property marker : "______"
on run
my activateGUIscripting()
tell application "Pages" to tell document 1
set nDocSource to name
set source to body text
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end run
--=====
on decoupe(t, d)
local l
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set l to text items of t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return l
end decoupe
--=====
on recolle(l, d)
local t
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to d
set t to l as text
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ""
return t
end recolle
--=====
on dateTimeStamp()
return (do shell script "date " & quote & "+P%Y%m%d-%H%M%S" & quote)
end dateTimeStamp
--=====
on makeNewPagesDoc(n, d)
local f, t
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tell application "Pages"
open t
save document 1 as n in file f
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end makeNewPagesDoc
--=====
Use GUI scripting
on selectIworkDoc(a, n)
local m
if a = "Pages" then
set m to 9
else if a = "Numbers" then
set m to 10
else if a = "Keynote" then
set m to 11
else
error "The application “" & a & "“ is not accepted !"
end if
tell application a to activate
tell application "System Events" to tell application process a to tell menu bar 1 to tell menu bar item m to tell menu 1 to click menu item n
end selectIworkDoc
--=====
on activateGUIscripting()
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end tell
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--=====
--[/SCRIPT]
Yvan KOENIG (from FRANCE dimanche 26 avril 2009 22:32:24) -
How do I delete a block of text on my IPad. For example, when I want to forward an email
How do I delete a block of text on my IPad. For example, when I want to forward an email & want to delete the previous sender's info.
OK, Duh...press and hold on the text and a small menu will pop up. Then use Select, Select All, or just drag the blue handles to select the text you want.
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var foundLinks = new Array();
var overlap;
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Hi, I am a fan of Speech functionality and use 'Start Speaking' in Preview for reading blocks of text back to myself. Whatever text was selected is what would be read. Now suddenly, every time I try to do this, it starts reading from the start of the document, regardless of what is selected. I discovered that selecting View > PDF Display > Single Page instead of Single Page Continuous makes it at least start reading from the beginning of the page I am on, but this is still annoying in most cases. The behaviour works as before in web browsers, but not Preview.
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There are a lot, so good searching.
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