Is IMessage free when messaging internationally?

Is iMessage free when texting internationally?

If you are on wifi then correct there will be no charge.
As for the settings in the iPhone I don;t have mine in front of me right now but turning off SMS should limit the messages to wifi. In addition you can also turn off doing any or most data transfers if you are not connected to wifi to limit what data goes over the 4g
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    Sorry folks is this an idiot of a question, but when you going oversees and out of the UK, for example to Spain, does iMessage still remain free no international charges ect..

    Obviously ur trying to be a smart arse and have played on words so i will leave you to contiune to very unconstructive support. If you took the time to read between the lines of my questions you would see that is clearly what i have been saying.
    Its only now not through you i have discovered it uses a very small amount of data even for heavy user hence why it appeared as "free" as I have never really got any data usage against my account, as im mainly on wifi...hence why i thought it has appeared to be free.
    1. There is no "iMessage app."   iMessage is a function of the Messages app, which also does SMS and MMS.  iMessage requires 2 iOS devices running iOS 5 or later, with both connected to either cell data (i.e. 3G) or WiFi.
    Pandantic or what! That's whay i have been saying all along, obvioulsy you just wanna play on words
    3. iMessage is "free" everywhere - UK, USA, Tierra del Fuego, or Mars. There is no extra charge for international iMessages. The only caveat is that if the cell data network is used instead of WiFI, some of your data allotment is consumed and you're paying for that.
    It cant be free everywhere if  "The only caveat is that if the cell data network is used instead of WiFI",

  • Question about iMessage retrieval when messages are visible with "Search" feature

    Hello everyone,
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    The thing is, when I search for her name with the iPhone "Search" function, all of those conversations appear as if they should be in the iMessage list, but they are not. Is there anyway for me to exploit this and restore these iMessages onto my phone?
    I'm an Air Force pilot in Texas and don't get to see her much, so I would love to be able to save these messages. I also went to school for electrical engineering, and I'm stumped.
    tl;dr iMessages accidentally deleted but still appear in the iPhone "Search" function - is there anyway to restore them?

    Unfortunately, not that I'm aware of.  The cached data you are seeing in Spotlight search is separate from the messages data on your phone, and you can't restore from one to the other.
    Messages are, however, included in the iPhone backup (whether done with iTunes or iCloud).  If these messages were on your phone when you last backed up, restoring to the entire backup should recover them.

  • Mavericks Messages - iMessage offline when Messages closed

    Hi there,
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    Cheers

    How about this -- it seems like it should work though I've never personally tried it:
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  • I have a Apple iphone5 is face Time free when connecting internationally?

    I have an Apple iphone5. Can i use Face Time free internationally?

    Facetime only "costs" the internet it is using.  This means if you're connected via an internet you're already paying for (i.e. your home wifi, or wifi in a hotel room you've paid for) then it wont cost anything more. If you're facetime over cellular it'll use data on the cellular plan.  If you have a data plan for the locality you're in it'll use data as anything else does (like email or surfing the web).  If you're usuing cellular data out of coverage of your home network it'll use roaming data and that can add up.
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  • Is iMessage free if you text between iPhones using AT

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    It would be hard to imagine breaking your data plan with iMessage, unless you are passing some massive attachments.
    On the other hand, iHeart radio is like Pandora, I think, and streams the music constantly while running. I wonder what happens if your wi-fi drops for a second while you are running that. Will your phone jump over to the cellular connection to keep the app running? If it does, that could easily explain the data overage.
    You might want to play around with disabling cellular data when you know you will be parked under wifi for a while.That way, if wifi does blip on you, you don't start munching on your data plan.

  • HT5395 When launching iMessage, I get an internal error message and it automatically force quits...what does that mean?

    when trying to launch iMessage upon turing my computer on, I get the message "internal error has occured, please quit iMessage and try again."
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    Hi Eric,
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    com.apple.iChat.StatusMessages.plist  only holds the default and Saved Status Messages.
    Deleting it does not effect the running of the app.
    Deleting com.apple.ichat.plist first can be the most invasive as you have to reset any Preferences (and some Menu items) that you have changed from defaults
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    As above All the accounts info is held elsewhere but this one is actually handling the logins.
    It is of course doing all of then in Messages and FaceTime so it is not a first choice.
    Deleting com.apple.imessage.bag.plist can be useful as this has  info on the Server your version of Messages is using.
    I would delete this along with com.apple.imservice.imessages.plist on a second attempt.
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  • HT3529 Does IMessage charge anything for sending messages Internationally?

    When I use IMessage to send messages from Germany to LA will it charge me extra?

    The Apple Support Communities are an international user to user technical support forum. As a man from Mexico, Spanish is my native tongue. I do not speak English very well, however, I do write in English with the aid of the Mac OS X spelling and grammar checks. I also live in a culture perhaps very very different from your own. When offering advice in the ASC, my comments are not meant to be anything more than helpful and certainly not to be taken as insults.
    The Message app has two functions, actual iMessages that are text messages that use Apple's servers to connect folks with iOS devices and use wi-fi and possibly a data plan and also text messages using the SMS protocal and can communicate with any cell device with this capability and for which telcos will charge their normal fee.
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    when i am texting my friend and my message sends as a text everything is fine but when she replies with an imessage it goes into a different chat so i have to keep changing chats to reply depending on whether the message is an imessage or text message, how do i make it so they are in one chat?

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    It sounds as though you are receiving iMessages from your friend yet she is receiving SMS text messages from you rather than iMessages, and this is causing your conversations to appear as two separate items in the Messages application, is that correct?
    I would suggest following the steps in this article to troubleshoot this issue, so that what you send is sent as an iMessage -
    iOS: Troubleshooting Messages - Apple Support
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    Best,
    Brett L 

  • I am getting a message Internal Error Instacast keys not defined when I open one of the local tv news apps on my iPad. What do I need to do to fix it?

    I am getting an error message "Internal error Instacast Keys not defined" when I open a news app from one of my local tv stations. What is causing this?

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  • Why doesn't iMessage show when the message is read, all the time?

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    It depends on the recipients settings, whether they have read receipts set to on or off.  If they have it off, you will not be notified of the actual time they read your message.

  • TS4268 What does it mean when I get the error message, "unable to contact iMessage center" when trying to set up iMessages and I click next and it starts verifying and then the error message.

    What does it mean when I get the error message, "unable to contact iMessage server" when I try to use iMessage and after it starts verifying?

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