Is international iMessage free?

I have a friend who went to England for a few weeks and we want to know if imessage
is free.

Your friend may get charged if they were sending iMessages using a cellular connection, especially as they would have been "roaming" at the time.  That would be a charge levied by the carrier and the UK mobile network that they were logged onto at the time.  If your friend was using a wi-fi connection however, then there would have been no charge.

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    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
    regards

  • Is iMessage free when you travel oversees

    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.
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    Pandantic or what! That's whay i have been saying all along, obvioulsy you just wanna play on words
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    It cant be free everywhere if  "The only caveat is that if the cell data network is used instead of WiFI",

  • Is iMessage free?

    Is iMessage free from one US user to another international user as long as we both have the upgraded ios 5 version?

    BonR wrote:
    Is iMessage free from one US user to another international user as long as we both have the upgraded ios 5 version?
    According to this thread it is. Check it out:
    https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3422463?start=0&tstart=0

  • Is iMessage free if you text between iPhones using AT

    Confused on a few things.  I have the iPhone 4 with 3G.  I don't use my phone all that much...use iMessage approx. 3x/week, and I listen to iHeart Radio at home on wifi.  This is my issue:  I got a notice that I was over my data usage and will be billed $15.  My questions are...is iMessage free when you text between iPhones on AT&T?  Does IHeart Radio use data?  I feel that I might have my settings wrong because my sister says she uses iMessage all e time and NEVER goes over her data.   How can I check my data usage so I don't go over again?  Thanks so much for the help!

    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.
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  • Is iMessaging free from iPhone to iPhone on 3G?

    Is iMessaging free from iPhone to iPhone on 3G? What about from a verizon iPhone 4s to an at&t iPhone 5 on 3G/4G?

    Yes and no. You will not be charged for an SMS/MMS message, but it does use cellular data. As long as you don't overrun your monthly allowance, it won't cost you anything extra. It does incur data use, though, and data is not "free".

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    Is iMessage to iMessage free to any device not over wifi?
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  • IMessage free international?

    so i heard iMessage is free international to other iPhones with the new ios5 software, is this true?

    It doesn't guess, it pings and knows the other end is an iOS 5 device, sends it as an iMessage and shows you it has been delivered as an iMessage. At this point it is not using SMS at all.
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  • How is iMessage free?

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    Destinie Harris wrote:
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    I'm planning on studying abroad next year and I was wondering if I can Facetime my family and friends for free. Anybody know the answer?

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  • International iMessage not going through

    I'm on an iPhone 4 on 5.1.1. I'm in Asia trying to send iMessages back to the U.S. because it doesn't use texting costs, but I can't get any to go through to other iPhones on 5.x in the USA. I have 3G, data and roaming turned off - do any of these affect iMessage? Whenever I go to message someone, there is no option but to send the message as a text message.

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    Thank you.

    Hi,
    If you are using it from your Mac then Yes.
    Your iPhone maybe using the Carrier for either and may incur charges depending on your contract.
    9:56 PM      Tuesday; October 23, 2012
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    //sorry for my english ;(
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    FORM GET_DATA.
      DATA: LT_ITAB TYPE TABLE OF SFLIGHT.
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    regards,
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