if someone's phone is off will imessage deliver?
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The Answer: NO but there's a caveat! So, if the text recipient is only using their iPhone and had no other devices setup for iMessage, like an iPad or Mac computer, the text will NOT show up as delivered. ...
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No, iMessages don't show on your bill. They are sent as data. ... As noted, iMessages are shown as data.
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The Answer: NO but there's a caveat! However, if the person you texted has iMessage configured to a Mac, iPad or even an iPod touch those devices might receive the iMessage, even though that person's iPhone is dead. ...
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Check in your iPhone's Settings app that various messaging options are turned on so that your phone can dispatch texts if iMessage fails. Turning your iPhone off and back on again can usually refresh the software and restore better signal connections, enabling your messages to send once again.
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iMessage can be sent to a phone number OR an email address OR both. ... The only part your carrier has in this, when an iMessage is sent over cellular, is simply delivering the data to Apple's servers. That's it. iMessages are just data, not text messages (which go through the carrier's network).
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If they are, they will see that their text failed to be delivered and also get a text saying, "You cannot send messages to destinations that are blocked by the account owner." If they are not, they will not get any notification that the message didn't go through.
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So, if you turn your phone off for a couple of hours, messages will queue up and they will be received. ... Once the recipient carrier stops trying to send the message to the recipient's phone, the message cannot be retrieved very easily. The sender could resend it from their phone, but that is about it.
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Will iMessages Deliver to a Dead Phone? When the recipient's phone is turned off or dead, Apple holds the iMessages sent to that account on its servers and delivers them to the iPhone when the recipient turns it back on. However, this does not mean your contact won't be able to read your message if the phone is dead.
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Will an iMessage appear as delivered if the recipient's device is dead? ... So, if a user only has a single iPhone, and nothing else configured for iMessage (like a Mac or an iPad), then if that device is dead, the message will not be delivered and therefore not show a "Delivered" status.
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When you send an iMessage, Apple will route that message through their servers using an Internet connection. This Internet connection can be either Wi-Fi or your cellular provider's data network. If no Internet connection is available, the Messages app may attempt to deliver the iMessage as a regular SMS text message.
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This could be caused if there is no Internet connection. If the option to “Send as SMS” is turned off, the iMessage will not be delivered until the device is back online. You can force an undelivered iMessage to be sent as a regular text message regardless of the “Send as SMS” setting.
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Actually, iMessage not saying “Delivered” simply means the messages has not yet been successfully delivered to the recipient's device due to some reasons. Reasons could be: their phone not having available Wi-Fi or cellular data networks, they have their iPhone off or on Do Not Disturb mode, etc.
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iMessages go through your network connection so to your provider they look just like any other network/internet/browser traffic. If your text messages were from Apple device to Apple device (using iMessage for both sides), it's not going to show up on the provider logs.
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No, iMessages don't show on your bill. They are sent as data. ... But, there will be no detailed information about individual iMessages. You should be able to get detailed information about your SMS messaages (though not the content).
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It may show delivered if their iPhone is off because it can be received by their iPad Mac or Apple Watch.
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iMessages are different than actual text messages. ... So it will not show up on your bill and neither will the number texting.
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If you're sending a message to someone who has blocked you, and you're using iMessage, it will say "delivered" – exactly like a text that went through.