MMS texts need your data enabled to send/receive, and if you run out of data you can still use this feature when data is enabled.

SMS texts do not need a data plan to send/receive. I feel like there must be a better way than for him to go into each individual message/contact to change this, but we haven't been able to find anything else in settings, or know why this would be happening (seems to be changing to/from this setting by itself). With SMS/MMS messages forwarded from your iPhone to other devices. Your iMessage texts appear in blue bubbles. Over Wi-Fi or cellular service, using iMessage with others who also use iMessage on an iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, or Mac. Is this normal? He said he's had to do this before, even when he still had data. In the Messages app, you can send text messages in two different ways.

Type your message, then tap the Send button. Enter the names or tap the Add button to add people from your contacts. Select Chat features Find Automatically resend as text (SMS/MMS) and toggle it on When you toggle on the feature, you’ll get a warning that messages sent as SMS/MMS aren’t end-to-end. Ultimately, we figured out that he needed to go into the individual contact settings for the people he couldn't send to and turn the toggle on for 'Only Send SMS and MMS Messages'. If youre not using iMessage, you can use SMS/MMS. Open Messages and tap the Compose button. He was still able to send/receive messages with WIFI, but not regular texts. SMS or Short Message Service or text message is a text-only messaging service that allows customers to send messages of up to 160 characters MMS or Multimedia Messaging Service is a service that enables customers to send text messages that contain media content like emojis, photos and videos. Most MMS messages can send files as big as five MB (megabytes), which is more than enough for almost any photo that you would need to send. It’s a technology specializing in sending messages containing higher amounts of data than SMS messages. I cant send out SMS, can only send MMS or again, a SMS with a gif or picture. What is MMS Messaging MMS is an acronym for Multimedia Message Service. He ran out of data today and all of a sudden he couldn't send or receive texts (even though his plan is an 'Unlimited Text and Picture Messaging'. I get the notification from Google Messages saying message was not sent.

Only send sms and mms messages