It's because they have your number as an iMessage contact.

They are not receiving yours or you're not receiving theirs?

Have them delete your contact and see if it goes through.

SIGNAL IS THE WAY

Signal is better

Get all your friends to stop using the worlds most perfect surveillance device is my advice. F iPhones

if you had an iphone you also want to make sure to turn off imessages on that iphone. iphone still uses sms/mms which is shit, but iOS 18 will have rcs so it’ll make it better to communicate with android devices (hopefully)

Switch to simplex

They should at least be receiving SMS/MMS. Has nothing to do with the lack of RCS that I am away of

Signal is the signal

this is by design #applelockin meant to annoy everyone

my husband had to remove me to get it to work after i switched to android

it's better not to use MMS/SMS at all though

I like signal, it works with both normal people and with apple heads. I would say convert all your NPCs to simplex, but unfortunately notifications dont seem to work for my iFriends

And good luck getting iPhone diehards to use anything besides their precious default app. 🤣

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I suppose its worth clearing something up. Off the shelf Android uses the same carrier messaging infrastructure that every mobile phone since like the 90s used. Apple is the one choosing a different route. I heard news that they were facing the law for blocking some SMS messaging by default, but I don't have that proof anymore.

Yes you should still get as many people as possible to use Signal, SimpleX, or other verified highly e2e encrypted and ideally open source tools. SMS Is not a safe option IMO. Telegram and WhatsApp are not alternatives that actually respect your privacy and true e2e encryption because they comply with the laws of most countries as they currently stand.

Ah, yeah I hate this too. There is no fix other than trying to get them to use signal, which apple in that case just nerfs notifications. Ya this is why I hate apple so much. So many disconnects w friends and families, phones are supposed to do one damn thing, deliver messages. iPhoners don't realize the level of shit they're spreading.