iMessage Stuff

Just send a message to your friend's smartphone quickly – but the fare doesn't give you any more text messages, and a few messenger effects like stickers or background motifs couldn't hurt either? No problem for Apple users: If the recipient also has an iPhone, you can simply send the message as iMessage. It ends up in the news compartment just like a classic SMS, but is transported over the Internet instead of over the mobile network. What the benefits are, what the service costs, how you use it, and what you can do if the message doesn't arrive

What is iMessage and how much does it cost?

Instead of sending a message to one of your contacts via SMS, the so-called iMessage is available to you as a user of an iPhone, iPad, iPods touch since iOS 5. This lands like an SMS in the messaging app, but is not sent over the mobile network, but over the Internet. This means that your data plan for sending an SMS will not be charged.

The prerequisite is that you have access to the Internet via Wi-Fi or your mobile Internet connection, and that the recipient also uses an Apple device. The software automatically determines whether both prerequisites are met and in this case automatically selects the iMessage. For you as a user, the process remains the same: You type the message, select the recipient, and tap or click Send. In your message overview, you can recognize iMessages by the fact that the text is blue instead of green.

You can also include pictures, videos, or voice messages in your messages. iMessage allows you to use many of the features of messengers such as WhatsApp, Telegram or Facebook Messenger.

You will not incur any additional charges for an iMessage except for your Internet connection.

By the way, if sending or receiving a message takes a conspicuously long time, this could be due to the speed of the Internet connection. You can easily check this yourself. How, see the UPDATED Guide: https://www.notion.so/Download-iMessage-on-PC-and-Windows-Latest-Version-b90e238ae4de42b38eb51f6ddc0493d8

Enable or disable iMessage

By default, iMessage is set up on iPhone or iPad. If not, the service is very easy to activate:

1. Open Settings .
2. Scroll to Messagesand tap or click them.
3. Activate iMessageby moving the slider to the right so that the bar is green.
4. If you no longer want to use the service and instead send your messages as SMS by default, drag the slider back to the left at this point.

switch iMessage and send the message as an SMS

What if you and/or the recipient of an iMessage do not have access to the Internet right now? Quite simply: Your message will then be delivered with a delay, i.e. only when the devices are back on the network. You can tell if the iMessage has already reached its recipient by the small note immediately below the message: There you will see delivered or not delivered .

If the message is urgent and you do not know when your contact will have network access again, you should send the undelivered iMessage again as SMS. Keep in mind, however, that depending on the tariff, you may incur costs. Resending an iMessage goes like this:

1. Press the appropriate message until a menu appears.
2. Select As SMS message .
3. The message is sent as an SMS and then displayed in green.