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Besides transferring your contacts and favorite apps, there is one more thing that is extremely important when switching from an iPhone to an Android phone. If you don’t do this, you risk missing hundreds of text messages from friends and family in the future.
iPhones have a handy system that automatically converts text messages sent to other iPhone owners into iMessages. This means you don’t use up any of your SMS package and messages are also better protected via Apple systems. Since this happens automatically, you don’t need to install a separate app. You are already running iMessaging when the normally green balloon turns blue.
iMessage works seamlessly as long as you use an iPhone. If you switch to Android, you may encounter problems. Your phone number will still be listed by Apple as a number that can receive iMessages, which turns text messages from iPhone friends into blue messages. However, your Android device cannot receive them, so they end up in a kind of black hole.
Sign out of iMessage
“If you no longer have devices that use iMessage, you should opt out of Apple’s chat service,” says smartphone expert Donovan Kerssenberg of the tech site Tweakers. There are two ways to do this: with or without an iPhone.
If you still have your old iPhone, you will first need to insert the SIM card into the device to deregister iMessage. Next, go to the Settings app, tap Messages, and turn off the switch next to iMessage. Also, tap “FaceTime” in Settings and turn off the corresponding switch so that no one can try to video call you using Apple services.
Special page at Apple
If your iPhone is lost, broken, or sold, you’ll need to go to a special Apple website to turn off iMessage. From there, enter the phone number you received for iMessage to receive an SMS. You can then enter the code contained herein on the Apple site to deregister iMessage and FaceTime.
Once you’ve completed the steps above, text messages from iPhone owners should return to arriving “normally” as text messages on your Android phone.
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