IMessage won't switch to SMS when out of the data/wifi range

my boyfriend has his imessage switched off sometimes, and when he is out of his home and has no wifi or data my messages still send as imessages and won't let me manually switch them to SMS so he never gets the messages. It says it delivers as an imessage even when he has imessage turned off so he never gets most of my messages but i can't turn my imessage off as i depend on it to talk to family out of the country. It all worked fine until i upgraded to iOS7 and since then it's been having this issue. Is there anyway to fix this?

He shouldn't keep turning his iMessage off and on. He should leave it on, so that when you attempt to contact him, it will register if he is not in an active data setting. When his iMessage is constantly being turned off and on, it is just confusing the server, as if it was still on or off. His best bet is for him to leave it on. If he turns it off, your phone will not know he is out of an active data connection. This is the same problem people have when they leave iMessage active and get a different brand of phone. It appears the iMessages are being received, when the device doesn't get iMessages. Also, you cannot manually switch between the two for him because of the way the iMessage server works. You have the option right after the iMessage sends to hold down on the message bubble and select send as text, but that would require you to know that he isn't in a data connection. If he keeps his activated, the server will know if he is out of a data connection, and your iMessage should be sent correctly.

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