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[Jen Ronnfeldt]

That looks as spammy as it gets! I did open up the link, but only in a Linux Virtual Machine instance I keep just for these kind of things. I did not confirm as requested even in the VM as nothing said or looked like Celebrity. It's probably OK, but I'm only 70% sure it's legit and that's not enough for me to click or respond YES. If I didn't have the VM set up, there is no way I would have checked that far.

Yes, it's probably fine, and yes, it's probably Celebrity, but this set off alarm bells. They need to do a much better job than this. BTW, I have a call-back into Celebrity to confirm that this is their text. So it's gonna cost them time and money for not doing a better job.

It's a confirmation message asking if you are really really going on the cruise (not in those words). Very similar to what a lot of medical offices are doing these days. You click on a Confirm button.

I get the point re: the link, but having a specific cruise booked is a bit of specific knowledge that only you know. My dentist and doctor texts come from a third party platform, too, and not their regular website address.

Interesting as the OP states Celebrity says it was not from them and their TA says it was not from them. I've been cruising Celebrity since 2021 and don't recall receiving such a text. Boarding the Apex in a couple of weeks, will see if I get something.

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My IMessages on my iPhone6, to one particular person used to go through as blue and said "delivered". Now, for the last couple days when I send a text, they sit there as blue, and maybe 3-5 min later, they automatically turn green and get "Sent as Text Message". This has just been happening with this one individual.

I've turned on/off my phone, deleted the strand completely and sent new messages, turned on/off iMessage & SMS in Settings.... However, they are still being sent automatically as green text. I do have my SMS on....

I've been trying to text someone and it does the same thing. It starts out as blue but there's no indication that it's been delivered or read like it usually would say at the bottom, then after a few seconds it turns green. My daughter texted him(it's her dad) and it doesn't do that for her. Makes me wonder if he set his phone to block me or something. If anyone has an answer to this, I would appreciate it.

I'm wondering if BOTH iPhones need to have "send as SMS" in order to receive. I texted my friend the other day. Our messages are always blue. She also has the "read receipt" feature enabled so I can see "delivered" and "read." But, I texted her when she was on a flight. It came back green "sent as SMS" but that's it. It's been green for 2 days now, and I KNOW she's not in the air anymore. Now I'm wondering if she ever got it? I would think if no internet connection was avail it would still send once the person landed? So confused

No, it doesn't necessarily mean your blocked. It may mean that the person to whom you're sending the message has either signed out of iMessage or does not have an active data connection (either cellular or WiFi). What did they say when you asked them?

I've never read any definitive statement that if someone has you blocked, the message shows as green instead of blue. And, even if it were true, it's only one possible explanation of why the message could show as green so it wouldn't really give you an answer.

Chaser5 so this is how I fixed it because mine was turning green when I sent a message. So first you go to settings and tap on messages then it says on the very top imessage and then there's this slider thingy it looks like this you turn it on and then you turn on the SMS thing and Then it will hopefully work.

I assume the "SMS thing" to which you're referring is the "Send as SMS..." feature. The only thing that slider does is tell the phone that, if it tries to send an iMessage (blue) and it fails, it should try to send it again as SMS (green).

The fact that you have unlimited data on your account says nothing about whether the phone is connected to data at any given moment. I have a friend who texts me on his way home from work sometimes. Generally, I get his texts as iMessages (blue), but, sometimes, when the trolley he rides is underground, the messages come as SMS.

Send as SMS is only relevant when iMessages is not available. Neither of you need to have it enabled if you are using iMessages and have active data connections. If it was sent as SMS, unless her phone is off or still in Airplane mode, the likelihood that she got it is almost 100%. SMS messages will go through when nothing else will.

However. iMessages is known to be a bit flaky if it the phone was disconnected from data for any significant period of time. You can try deleting the conversation between you and that person. Suggest to your friend that she turn iMessages off then back on again now that she's properly connected to data.

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