[xls177]

Switched from using an Iphone on one carrier to a new carrier using a samsung andriod phone.

I don't get texts from iphone users now.
I get all my texts from everyone else.

Tech support was no help. I switched all pics and contacts via Icloud.

Does anyone know what the problem is ?

 

[Marine6212]

I would suggest creating a account with Samsung Android Phones
Some very knowledgeable people on there.

 

[45_Fan]

Did you deregister your number from Apple?

Deregister and Turn Off iMessage - Apple Support

Learn how to deregister iMessage. Be sure you can keep getting text messages by providing the phone number you want to deregister from iMessage.

selfsolve.apple.com

 

[zetor]

I switched phones when the speakers went out of my old one and for a while I wasn’t getting texts from contacts on the new phone. They were going to my old phone despite no service on the old phone. I had to delete contacts and re enter them on the new phone

 

[frankr]

As @45_Fan mentioned you need to de-register your phone number with Apple. They run their own iMessage server instead of using old school SMS. It's how they support large media attachments and other stuff not supported by SMS. Once you de-register you should start getting SMS messages from iPhone users again.

 

[xls177]

Did the deregister with apple .
Still not getting texts from iphones.

did notice iphone users names don't correspond with contacts.

I was wondering if my old carrier verizon could have something to do with it.

 

[45_Fan]

The next step is to get a friendly iPhone user and see if they are sending from their iCloud account ([email protected]), their phone number (as SMS) or both. If they are sending from iCloud only and have you only saved as an iCloud contact ([email protected]), then this is why you don’t see the message. I would hope they see a reject or bounce when they try though.

 

[xls177]

Got this reply from android central.

The people trying to message you may need to delete and start a new messaging 'thread' with you so as to be sure to move it from iMessage protocol to SMS.

 

[NTA]

I bought a new (last year) Motorola phone. Took me a few days to get Verizon to make the change on their end to allow text messages to work. The Motorola phone came with an instruction sheet warning Verizon users to do this. Quite a pain, internet chat with Verizon customer service went nowhere. Had to visit a Verizon store with the instruction sheet.

 

[OWM]

And I thought I had problems getting the damn text mess disabled on my dumb phone.