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No more imessage

My son used to have an iPhone. Now he has a Samsung, not by my choice. I can’t send him text messages because my phone is still trying to send iMessages instead of regular texts. How do I fix this?

iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 12

Posted on Jun 11, 2019 5:17 PM

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Posted on Jun 11, 2019 5:31 PM

Have your son deregister his phone number from iMessage.

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

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