iPhone iOS10 a risk to children

indesisiv

iammumtoone wrote: »

someones going to have to help me out here.

i was under the impression an imac was a computer?

So if you are trying to send a message to a mobile phone number why does it go to the computer do imacs get allocated their own telephone number that is the same as the owners mobile number?

imessaging uses your appleID not the phone number. It's more like instant messenger than text message.

Exemplar

iOS 10 at fault for mass immigration.

AndyPK

It's never a good idea to update the IOS early !

mrochester

It sounds like your daughter has an Apple ID with iMessage switched on on your Mac. Your phone will know that your daughter has iMessage and will preference sending messages to her as an iMessage rather than a text. Therefore the message will only be received on the Mac. The solution is to either get your daughter an iPhone so she receives iMessages on her mobile device or get her to switch off iMessage on your Mac.

This issue is completely unrelated to iOS 10.

mije1983

Will somebody think of the children!

Exemplar

These iOS immigrants coming over here, taking our operating systems!

datostar

Why not enter your daughter's details with something like '(name) mobile' in Contacts with only her mobile phone number? Then you will be able to send and receive text messages to/from her without iMessage getting involved at all.

indesisiv

datostar wrote: »

Why not enter your daughter's details with something like '(name) mobile' in Contacts with only her mobile phone number? Then you will be able to send and receive text messages to/from her without iMessage getting involved at all.

In the contacts is there not an option to have that? ie, Add different types of number to the contact such as: Home phone, Work mobile, Personal mobile, Apple ID then select which one to send to?

If the person has work and personal mobile numbers you wouldn't want to be sending stuff to the work number normally.

20aday

Just out of interest has your daughter always had a Blackberry device? Has she owned an iPhone previously?

I only ask because there were a few news stories a couple of years ago where people hadn't de-registered their phone numbers when moving away from iOS.

For whatever reason when someone with an iOS device sent it to a non iOS device the sender's phone/tablet/computer still used iMessage meaning the recipient never received the text.

It's possible to set up iMessage with an email address; the texts were definitely going to your daughter as an SMS rather than her email address? If she'd signed into Messages on the Mac and your iPhone was sending them to the email address rather than her number that's another possibility i.e. jane.doe@appleseed.com instead of 07000 000111.

Otherwise sending a message to a non iOS user would mean it would be sent as a text and she should have received it.

Lorian

Can't believe you haven't been nagged to death to get rid of the blackberry.