After all this online drama over something as silly as green bubbles, I just discovered their power. I had a brief power outage and apparently my cell provider had degraded service, so I had no data and text messages didn’t go through. Then I tried a green bubble conversation and it worked.

SMS worked, when data and iMessage did not. So how can I do that on purpose? I don’t know if this is a normal occurrence but the next time I have degraded service with no data, does anyone know if there is a way to SMS to fellow iPhone users?

    • mmmmmsoup@lemmy.today
      5·
      7 months ago

      This fully de-registers your number for iMessage, I wouldn’t suggest this.

      Instead when a message doesn’t send, simply press and hold and choose send as SMS and it will temporarily keep the chat green for a while.

  • pacology@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    7 months ago

    You can also activate “send as sms” in the messages page to fallback to sms when blue bubbles don’t work.