Unlink iPhone number from iMessages

Have an iPhone with no data plan so I want to send and receive messages sent to my iPhone phone number ALWAYS via SMS
1) if I go to Settings > Messages... I can unlink email addresses with iMessage but can't unlink the phone number?? ...any way to get around that?
2) OR... is there a way for someone to send an message to me from an iPhone and choose SMS rather than iMessage
3) OR alway use SMS rather than iMessage for a particular contact...

tmartine wrote:
Have an iPhone with no data plan so I want to send and receive messages sent to my iPhone phone number ALWAYS via SMS
1) if I go to Settings > Messages... I can unlink email addresses with iMessage but can't unlink the phone number?? ...any way to get around that?
2) OR... is there a way for someone to send an message to me from an iPhone and choose SMS rather than iMessage
3) OR alway use SMS rather than iMessage for a particular contact...
Settings/messages. Turn off iMessage. Right at the top.

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