S4 can't receive texts from an iPhone

I just switched from an iphone and bought the Galaxy S4 and I can't receive any text messages from anyone with an iphone. I have turned off messaging on my ipad and iphone and I still can't receive anything. Can someone please help me with this?

Did you unregister your I Phone off of I tunes? Than you'll have to wait 30 days for Apple to realize you're not an I Phone user anymore. In the mean time, tell your friends to turn off their IMessage. That's what happened to me and I unregistered my I phone. I forgot to turn off my I Message before I recycled my phone. I waited 30 days and it worked after that.

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Since then I can't receive texts from verizon non-iphones! They
can see my texts. Googling this, it seems like there's been issues
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Hi there.
Had exactly the same issue, and i've sorted this out now. It IS Apple's responsibility to deactivate this function, and simply switching their imessage off on a handset will NOT work.
Whatever apple did, they effectively released my number (read: t-mobile's number) from their messaging / OS framework's grip.
Please read my explanation here:
https://discussions.apple.com/message/24488400#24488400
You will need to contact apple support according to my solution.
Whatever it was they did, and i can guarantee that they did SOMETHING to release my (t-mobile's) number from their ecosystem, even though they did not specify step two (whatever they did after instructing me to deactivate imessage on their handset - which i explained i had already done), it has now returned my SMS delivery and receipt status to normal, and i can send and receive to everyone and anyone in my Contact List.

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Is iMessage turned on your phone?    It doesn't sound like it.
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Try again and let us know if it's working properly.

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It appears you have moved from an iPhone to an android phone. The problem you are having is because you did not deactivate your iMessage service before leaving.
If you still have your iPhone, you can re-activate it and then
turn on iMessage in the settings
uncheck your email and phone number
turn off iMessage
Settings>Messages
If you don't have your phone or don't want to go thru the hassle of reactivating it, you can simply call Apple at 800-694-7466 and ask them to turn off your iMessage.

I recently lost my iphone 4s, I'm temporarily using a droid. I can't get texts from other iphone users.

using an iphone 4s, but lost it. Now temporarily with a droid. I can not receive messages from other iphone users. I've deactivated my cell phone, I've changed my apple id and password... HELP!!!
and thank you

if u cant turn off imessages using ur apple id on an apple iphone... then u have to wait 30 days for ur apple id to time out of the imessage system.

Can't received text from my old iphone

I can't receive text messages from my old phone (now my son is using it). If I'm within WiFi range It works - only through Imessage not SMS.
Help!
I've tried all the fixes - it's only a problem from my old phone not other iphone users

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I have done everything I can find online about this:
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Switched iMessage off on my iPhone
Deleted the device from my iCloud account.... HELP.
When I call apple I can't speak to someone it says I need to pay £25 as I do not have cover. Really?! Is there another number I can call? Any help appreciated. Will it work eventually? I have waited a week and still can't receive text messages from my husband on his iPhone. It's driving me mad! I love my new Android phone (LG G2) but this is so frustrating.

Hi zara343, I had a similar problem. I have a iphone and my daughter changed from iphone to android. We couldn't receive text messages to each other, she had no other problems with her other contacts, just mine. It was driving me crazy. My phone kept recognizing her android as an iphone. Yes I turned iMessage off and yes I could receive my daughters messages, but my two other daughters and a few friends had iPhones, so I didn't get their messages. My problem is now fixed, I tried to send a message to my daughter and it came up undelivered, so I pressed the red exclamation mark to the right of the undelivered message and it gave me the option to try again, send as a text message or cancel. So I pressed send as a text message and my daughter received it, I tried again and message undelivered, so again I pressed the exclamation mark and went through the same process as before. I thought what a pain but did a third and now my iphone does not recognise her phone number as an iphone. So your husband would have to do this with his iphone and I am confident it will work, and me as an iphone user can keep iMessage switched on. Hope this helps.
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LG G2 can't receive text msg from iPhone, any ideas?

Dualregistered,
Yikes! I depend on text messages for my main communication. So I know how important it is to have them working. So with that being said, let's get to work. Did you just upgrade to the LG G2 from an iPhone? How long have you had this issue were you can't receive messages from iPhones? Also, are you able to send messages to these people that have iPhones and are they getting yours? Please keep me posted.
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Hi all. I've just bought a new phone (non iphone), I've followed the instructions to turn off imessage but I still cannot receive texts from anyone with an iphone. Does anyone know of anything else I can do? Thanks in advance

Not sure what "instructions" you followed, but see this:
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