Scroll Down to the 5th Section of Options.Here are steps to modify to your iMessage settings in IOS 14 or earlier: You want to retain iMessage conversations when your phone number and SIM card change. If a contact does not have iMessage, Apple Messages will automatically send an SMS from your SIM card phone number. iMessage will keep working even when you switch SIM cards again. New contacts will have your iMessage email. For new contacts with iPhones, Messages will automatically use iMessage. Once you arrive at your destination, keep the email option selected. This will ensure that conversations that you’ve already started using iMessage will continue to work. Change your iMessage settings to “Start New Conversations FROM” your Apple ID email, or another associated email.
However, the phone number might not be automatically enabled for iMessage.Ī few days before you leave the country, it is time for an iMessage config change. Adding a new SIM card and phone number will add that number to iMessage. Awesome, and thank you! Here are some ways to keep existing iMessage conversations going after your number transfer is complete.Ĭhange your Start New Conversations From SettingĪpple deletes the SIM card phone number from iMessage when you remove your SIM card after you’ve left the country. So you are porting your number to Tossable Digits. However, you can continue to use iMessage with Virtual Phone Numbers. You cannot add Virtual Phone Numbers to an Apple ID or iMessage configuration. Apple deletes the SIM card phone number from the iMessage configuration when you swap or remove that SIM card. This is a well-founded concern! Apple limits phone numbers on an Apple ID based on the SIM card installed in the iPhone or iPad. If you have WiFi but no cell service, you can still get messages via iMessage but not SMS messages.Ĭustomers worry that iMessage stops working when they port, or transfer, their phone number to Tossable Digits. SMS must use a mobile network connection, limiting availability. iMessage uses your data connection, so it is available in more places. It is exclusively available on Apple iPhones, iPads, and Mac products. It is an end-to-end encrypted messaging service. Apple iMessage is one of the safest ways to communicate.
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