Unlinking SMS

I just downloaded the crunchSMS from the Blackberry app world. I was wondering if anyone knows how to unlink my normal SMS. The issue I am having is that when I send a SMS message with crunchSMS and I recieve one back from the recipent, I also get it on the original SMS. I want to make the crunchSMS as the only SMS provider.

Have you found any source of help on this problem. I simply want my facebook contacts OUT of my icloud contacts, but can't find any guidance on how to do it.

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I have a Samsung Galaxy S III for Verizon, how to I unlink my texts from my email? Every time I get a text it pops up on my work e-mail!

This helped me change my settings to stop sms from going into email
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I'd love to know how to either submit this as a feature request to Apple, find out how to "fix" it myself, now, or discover how to get Apple to pay my unwanted text messaging costs...
I see, now that I've upgraded to ios 6, that my cell phone's number (I'm on an iPhone 4s) is tied to iMessage.
It would seem, then, that (because I cannot really count on Verizon's SMS block to work, all the time), this may cause me to start getting spam messages from people who are able to discover my phone # ?
Is there any way to NOT link my cell phone number to my iMessaging? It's NOT listed in my Apple ID profile, but it is entered and checked, on my phone, in iMessage settings.
Those who I want to iMessage me know my apple ID. Those are the only messages I want to receive.
In addition, Apple, please come up with a way for those of us who do not text (yes, we exist) and who have attempted to get our providers to block ALL (incoming AND outgoing) texts from our phones, to at least block outgoing SMS via your software.
If anyone has any workarounds for me, on this, I'd love to hear them.
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You cannot stop iMessage from associating your number with your account. But, you do not have to use that number as your displayed ID on sent messages. Just setup an alternate email address under callerID and use that (I use my @me.com address as my Caller ID, since I really never use it for anything else anyway).
Note too, that any message sent to your phone number would go through your carriers SMS system anyway, unless specifically sent from another iOS devices. Most spam emails do not originalte from an iOS device, so iMessage really has little to do with actual spam texts (which are generally sent from computer servers using your [email protected] address anyway). Your carriers blocks should continue to catch those.
iMessages only work from an iOS device to another iOS device, which does not absolutely mean that there will never be spam iMessage texts, but I'd think they would be few and far between.

Not able to send or receive SMS messages on iMessage on mac

When I first updated to Yosemite the new SMS feature on iMessage was working. I had to replace my home button and screen on my iPhone 5s and after that it stopped working. I am not sure if having that repair done on my phone has anything to do with my above problem. Please help

Hi Ralph,
Thank you for your reply.
Ok, I will try to explain myself better.
When I say:
- Messages, I am talking about the software to send and receive iMessages and SMS.
- iMessage, is the blue bubble
- SMS is the green bubble
Facetime is because if someones callsme and I do not answer quickly on iPhone, and the Macs are using the same network as iPhone, the VoiceCall pops ups and rings, and usually I activate the Facetime option (when is a iPhone). Sorry about this confusion.
So basically, a week ago, I could send and receive SMS, iMessage on my Macs to/from anyone.
Now, I just can send iMessages (blue bubbles with blue name/contact on top [TO:]) and I can't send SMS (text messages, green bubble), I receive error (red exclamation point) and the name/contacts on top [To:] are red.
And as I told, I think it might be because of the new iOS update with iTunes recovery. Because it is the only similar thing I can relate with "loyalchiver" (when an iPhone goes to repair, the restore it.) That's why I tried signout/in in all Macs, but still not working.
About the Text Forwarding function, I had searched and what I was getting was to go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding, but this last option didn't appear, so I thought this was because the pages/foruns that I was reading was for the version 8.1 and not 8.1.1 (Apple could change it, I don't know). But while I was trying to put this working, I had rebooted some where and when I saw your reply, I went again there, and I had the Text Message Forwarding option, so all I had to do was activating it. Thank you!
To "labelchiver", I am not sure how I did it, but try this:
1. close all applications running on background.
2. reboot your iphone.
3. go to Settings > Messages > Text Message Forwarding .
4. If you can enter there and your mac is linked, unlink it and link it again.
5. Hope it works for you
Once again, thank you for your help and I apologize for my confusions about the labels. Cheers!

Unlinking two iPhones that currently have the same Apple ID

My parents accidentally used the same Apple ID for both of their iPhones. How can I unlink their accounts and create two different, unique Apple IDs for each of their iPhones? And without losing what is currently saved to the iCloud (some of the info saved is for business). I appreciate any help. When I create a new ID for one device it messes up the other one. Thanks!

mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
So I basically won't run into any trouble? I
There should be no issues. Its designed to work like that. You don't change Apple IDs just because you get a new device.
mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
Is there any chance that the phones can fall out of sync?
Unlikely. But nothing is impossible. Though I don;t see how that would happen. As long as both are signed into the Same Apple ID / iCloud Account they will be N'Sync. (Bad Joke)
mannyace wrote:
Thanks for the response.
If I get a message or buy an app or take a photo on the iPhone 5, how do I get those things onto the iPhone 6?
If you buy an App, you have 2 ways to get it to the iPhone6: If Automatic Downloads is enabled in Settings->iTunes & App Store, it will automatically download to the iPhone 6 when you buy it on the 5 and vice versa if you buy it on the 6, it will download to the 5.
Alternatively, you can simply go to the App Store App->Updates->Purchased and look for the App there and download it. Purchased Apps will not require payment again. i.e They'll be free to download to the iPhone 6 once purchased.
SMS Messages will sync over using Continuity as long as they are on the same Wifi network. Otherwise, restoring the iPhone 5 backup to the iPhone 6 will transfer all messages received up until the backup was made onto the iPhone 6.
Images, can be transferred either through Photo Stream
My Photo Stream FAQ - Apple Support
Or any Cloud service you want such as Dropbox, or One Drive.
mannyace wrote:
Also, something i forgot to ask initially: Should I update the iPhone 5 to iOS 8 first or does that not matter?
If you want the Continuity features as explained above you need to update the iPhone 5 to iOS 8. Otherwise its not all that important.

My iMessage is stuck on the wrong phone number and I keep getting coded text messages from SMS Info.

I recently switched the sim card in my iPhone when I moved from one country to another. When I put my local sim card in iMessage would not activate (just staying on 'waiting for activation' forever). This has not been a problem before. When I went to send/receive I saw the phone number there is still on the old one from the country I left. This is not the case in phone settings when I look for 'my phone number' or in facetime, which recognise the new number.
Plus I keep getting text messages from 'SMS Info'. They are just code, except that in there my new phone number is included among the code. The only other discernible characters are the letters 'REG-RESP?'. Perhaps this is something to do with an error in registering my new number.
I have tried-
1. Turning it off and on again.
2. Turning iMessage off and on again. This results in the usual 'it may cost you to reactivate with an SMS' popup on my phone screen, then a popup saying there has been a mistake, then one of these coded SMS messages.
3. Doing the above in combination with logging in and out of my apple id (as suggested on another forum post here)
4. Removing the new sim card and replacing the old one. Then turning off iMessage, replacing the new sim card and turning iMessage back on (of course powering the phone down and up)
None of these remedies have worked. The iMessage problem is affecting all sorts of my messages. Windows keep popping up saying that I may have to pay for an SMS to activate iMessage, except that it doesn't activate. The SMS messages from 'SMS Info' keep coming and I can't seem to get any of it to stop an just work normally.
I have looked in these forums already and can't see the same problem elsewhere. If someone could figure this out I would be most grateful.

Hi,
When a Mac is "registered" for iMessages account with an Apple ID the Serial Number of the Mac is used to create an Auth Token as it is called for the Messages app that allows that Mac to work.
I would guess a similar process of linking the Number of the iPhone to a Hardware fact about the device is also in place.
I would contact Apple Support and check with them. (you might need to speak to a Level 2 person as Level 1 people are script led and try to fit everything into Software or Hardware categories where as sorting and Apple ID (which the Number is in this case) is normally Free).
I did find this iOS: Troubleshooting Messages - Apple Support
It starts off about sorting SMS that is not working.
This one has a bit on Unlinking an iPhone Number (with or without the iPhone) iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage - Apple Support
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Pre: corrupt contact blocks send/receive of SMS?

Hi all. Here's my issue - I had just had my wife add her Yahoo messenger info to the Messaging accounts on her Pre. She already had a contact for me for receiving text messages, so I tried to link the (newly appeared) Yahoo account to my full contact. Two unfortunate things happened:
1: I realized I was making the contact link the wrong way around (from Yahoo messenger profile to the full contact), so I removed the link (I thought) and re-made it from the full contact, opening the links screen there, then adding a link from the full contact to the Y! messenger profile.
2: I was doing this in a low-signal area.
What appears to have happened due to the combination of the two is that I can no longer send or receive a text message to the mobile number in my main, full contact! I am not sure what to do about this - I tried deleting the full contact and remaking it, along with quite a few soft resents, but still no texts are able to go out to, or come in from, this number in particular. Also, even after removing the Yahoo messenger profile, there is still a contact for my Yahoo identity, which apparently cannot be deleted (trying to use Menu > Delete Contact just causes the menu to hang with the Delete Contact choice highlighted).
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I'm thinking that I might have created a corrupt contact when I did that rapid link, unlink, link again thing in a low-signal area, but I don't know.
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I was able to reproduce the error. Here are the steps:
1. I called a number and quickly hung up, just as you would do to log a number for saving later.
2. From the call log, I clicked on the SMS button to send a text message.
3. I sent a text message.
4. From the text message log, I clicked on the number at the top to save it to contacts.
5. I saved a new contact with the number.
6. I went back to the text message log card. The text message log still had the number at the top, not the contact's name. I think this is important.
7. I went to the summary view of the text message log (where it shows the message logs for all your contacts). Again, the text message log for the test contact still showed a number and not the contact's name.
8. I deleted the complete message log for the test contact.
9. Finally, I went to the test contact and pressed the SMS button and nothing happens.
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Hey labelvin,
Thanks for the question. It sounds like your contact's phone number was never dissociated with iMessage. I'm sure you are not the only person that may be experiencing this with his phone number, you'll want to advise him to run through the "How to unlink a phone number" section of this article:
iOS 6 and OS X Mountain Lion: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
How to unlink a phone number
To remove a phone number from an Apple ID, sign out of FaceTime and Messages on your iPhone. Sign out in the following locations:
- Settings > Messages > Send & Receive. Tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out.
- Settings > FaceTime. Tap your Apple ID, then tap Sign Out.
This should remove your phone number from other devices using the same Apple ID with FaceTime and Messages.
If the phone number is still available on other devices after you sign out of FaceTime and iMessage on the iPhone, you may need to sign out of iMessage and FaceTime on all your devices, then sign in to FaceTime and Messages again on devices you want to use.
Note: If you no longer have access to the iPhone that is using the number you want to remove, reset your Apple ID password.
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Hi,
The iMessages account can do SMS (Text Messages) in Yosemite if you have an iOS 8 iPhone that have been linked.
To do this you need to Enable text Forwarding on the iPhone - which in turn triggers the Code Number to appear on the Mac version which you copy back to the iPhone dialogue box.
If it is On on the settings on the iPhone then you should be able to select the Mac that is linked.
You may find it has become Unlicked and you need to Reset. (turn the Function On again and then ask it to connect to the Mac in question and wait fro the number).
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Hello jnorton887,
Thank you for participating in the Apple Support Communities.
There are several ways an iPad and iMac can be 'linked,' for example through iMessages or through Continuity features like Handoff, Phone Calling, Instant Hotspot, and SMS.
Depending on which features you want to unlink, you may need to sign out of the particular feature (like iMessages) or sign out of iCloud altogether.
You can find more information and the steps to sign out of these services at these links:
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Where is the web forum to unlink my phone number from imessage?

Recently read the article (Nov 2014) that stated"
"On Sunday the company published a Web form allowing users to unlink their phone from the iMessage service by entering their phone number and, after a short wait, a six-digit confirmation code sent to the number as a regular SMS to ensure it won't be left in limbo."
I cannot find this forum - where is it?
I am tired of my messages being hijacked by apple
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Thanks.
So I went to the page and entered my # and got the code. When I entered the code it said my number is not registered and gave me an error.
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I love this phone, but ever since I did this update last night, all of my pictures are condensed. The thumbnails, when I click to view, everything. Every pic looks grainy and distorted. I took my card out and put it back into my 8330. Pictures were clear as day. Just got off the phone with Sprint Tech Support and they told me that this new update condenses all your pics to make room for memory for data and media usage. Does anyone have this same problem?
Also, everytime I receive a text (SMS) to a person that happens to be on my BBM list, it goes straight into my BBM. It doesn't list it as a SMS. Personally, I don't like using the BBM. Anyone having this problem too?
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Hello mosika20,
Welcome to the BlackBerry Support Community Forums.
To prevent SMS messages from going to BlackBerry Messenger Application you will need to unlink the contact association. Open the BlackBerry Messenger Application and close any active/old conversations. Highlight the contact that you would like to unlink and press the menu key and select Remove Contact Link. This will stop SMS messages from that contact to BlackBerry Messenger Application and they will show up in SMS inbox.
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There is a problem with iOS 7 and perhaps the backend servers Apple uses. I don't fully understand the iOS iMessage architecture so can't confirm or deny this but from a user's perspective, it has broken a part of the ability to SMS an ex-iOS iMessage user.
Let me clarify.
First, conditions required for the broken SMS scenario.
User 1: A current iOS 7 iPhone user. I haven't tested this with users who are just on iPad so can't comment for iPad users. I'm going to call this user simply "User 1".
User 2: An ex-iOS iPhone user. I'm calling this second user simply "User 2". This user no longer uses iPhone but did at one stage and has the same phone number used when she was using the iPhone. I can categorically confirm this fictional user based on a real life person was using an iPhone 4 in the past and has now switched to another branded phone. This user can ONLY receive SMS and MMS messages. User 2 has not used an iPhone for several years now. She jumped from iPhone 4 during its first year of release to another brand and haven't looked back.
SMS is "short message service" and is universal in the world of mobile phones. No one needs to download another application to use it. Its just there. For ALL mobile phones regardless of brand.
The problem is when user 1 tries to SMS user 2. For some reason, Apple stores the phone number for user 2 and identifies it as an iMessage user. Even after several years of non-use. So when User 1 who has been a faithful Apple iOS iMessage user upgrades his phone to iOS 7, all of a sudden, the message client doesn't want to send User 2 messages via the SMS service anymore. It defaults to iMessage and it won't be discouraged to send it via SMS no matter what user 1 or 2 tries to do using the phones built-in configuration and settings. This issue occurs consistently for user 1 with iOS 7.
Prior to iOS 7, user 1 never has a problem sending an SMS to user 2. This is the bizarre bit. It appears as if the messaging client on Apple iPhones prior to iOS 7 tries to send an iMessage but somehow, it checks to see if user 2 (the recipient) is really connected to iMessage and falls back to SMS automatically. I am not sure what the logic is exactly but this logic has been taken out of iOS 7 and its Messaging client.
Documentation for iPhones (even the latest iPhone 5/5s), out of the box, don't tell anyone that they need to do anything if they ever need to switch out of the Apple brand. A message was meant to be just that. A message. Whether it was SMS, MMS, email or Blackberry Messenger (BBM), you decide you no longer want to use it, you just STOP using it and people can still reach you via SMS on another branded phone. This was the case prior to iOS 7. iOS 7 has broken this model requiring you all now to unregister/unlink yourself from its iMessage database. In my scenario, even after years of non-use.
You are now forced to go to https://supportprofile.apple.com/MySupportProfile.do to unlink your iPhone if you're selling your iPhone or if you have already dispose of your iPhone.
I have heard advice (unqualified) that the iMessage service will unregister you automatically after 2-3 months but this obviously didn't happen for user 2.
Hope this clarifies the situation up for some users having issues with getting SMS messages when you are not currently using an iPhone.

Unlinking your phone number from iMessage
Here's a tip if you still have your iPhone. Perhaps you keep spare phones or you just haven't gotten around to selling it on eBay.
Go to: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT5538
Scroll all the way down to Additional Information.
Click on Unlink a phone number and follow the instructions there.
Be aware that if you own multiple iOS devices, the instructions indicate you may need to signout of iMessage and Facetime for all your iOS devices.
Note also that the above article also suggests changing your Apple ID password (if you still use iTunes or another iOS device) which might cause iMessage to stop working on your older device. I am going to add a caveat here by stating that on my friend's iPhone 4, she had no Apple ID associated with her phone and iMessage. The only association there in iMessage was a phone number so this may not work for you.

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
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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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Hi
I've just changed from an iPhone 4 to a Blackberry Z10, and no one with an iPhone can get through via text to my Blackberry. I've rung Orange - nothing they can do. I've rung GeekSquad who insure the phone, also nothing they can do. I've tried everything I can to unlink to number, but it has no effect.
I have an iPhone 5 also, on another contract and can see its trying to send the message in blue as iMessage, but doesn't then try to send it as an SMS when that fails.
My Blackberry is my business phone, and often customers text me and many have iPhones - so I'm really in trouble until I can fix this, so any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks

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I've done this on both my old iPhone and my iPad, but it makes no difference other than actually whether the message is received anywhere. If I untick the old phone number, and try and text my Blackberry from my new iPhone - the message still sends as an iMessage, but is not received by the Blackberry, If I leave it ticked then I receive the iMessage on my iPad. I need to unlink the phone number completely so that Apple no longer thinks its an iPhone.
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