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iPhone iOS10 a risk to children

dangermouse2 · 2016-09-22 11:26:05

So here's the scenario. I have an iPhone 6. My daughter has a Blackberry. We also have a MAC at home. I upgrade my iPhone to iOS10 on day 1 of the release. I go to work and drop my daughter off to school. I finish work and start travelling 1 hour back to her school. She texts me to ask me what time I will arrive and also…

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anotheruser Posts: 3,485 Forumite

24 September 2016 at 7:24PM

dangermouse2 wrote: »

The option "Send as SMS" has a description that says, "Send as SMS when iMessage is unavailable."

If you happen to have iMessage also installed on your MAC at home, when you try to send a message to that person, it will only go to the MAC because it thinks the recipient is on iMessage.

Make sure your daughter's Apple ID isn't part of her contact on your iPhone. It will then send the message to the number... as a text.

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