When the edit field is activated, It will say iMessage if it is an iMessage, or text message if it is a text message. Sometimes, though, It may say iMessage, but after it is sent, It will say sent as text message.
Most frequently, though, you will know which kind of message you are sending because of the way the edit field is labeled. -- Marcy weinberg Junior Partner Fedora Outlier, LLC Top down, BETTER THAN EXCELLENT ™ consulting, teaching and support http://www.fedoraoutlier.com 888-958-6979 ext.3801 ma...@fedoraoutlier.com On Feb 5, 2013, at 10:36 PM, Regina Alvarado <reggie.alvar...@gmail.com> wrote: > Marcy, > i will not argue what you said, but I have a habit of writing fairly long > texts. In previous versions of IOS, I would write a text and would hear a > whoosh and another woosh if it was too long. Now it always says iMessage and > when I send I only hear one whoosh. Now, I do not know if my textee gets 2 > texts, never asked, but all I hear now is one winging its way to whomever! > Just an observation, and I may not know 2 are being generated on one whoosh. > > Reggie and Brooks > > On Feb 5, 2013, at 9:52 PM, Marcy Weinberg <marcy.weinbe...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> And iMessage can have an unlimited number of characters. When you sent a >> message to someone who does not have I messaging, then their limit is 160 >> characters. If the text message exceeds 160 characters, It is divided into >> two or more text messages. Obviously the number of text messages received it >> depends on the number of characters in the original text message. For >> example, if the text messages 220 characters, the recipient will get one >> text message with 160 characters, then a second text message with the >> remaining 60 characters in it. >> >> >> >> >> -- >> Marcy weinberg >> Junior Partner >> Fedora Outlier, LLC >> Top down, BETTER THAN EXCELLENT ™ consulting, teaching and support >> http://www.fedoraoutlier.com >> 888-958-6979 ext.3801 >> ma...@fedoraoutlier.com >> >> >> On Feb 5, 2013, at 8:05 PM, "Arnold Schmidt" <arno...@mindspring.com> wrote: >> >>> I understand that an iMessage can have an unlimited number of characters, >>> but only can be used between Apple devices. A text message allegedly only >>> can have 160 characters. If I have iMessage turned on,how does my phone >>> know whether the recipient is using an Apple device, or not, to which it is >>> sending my iMessage? And if I send an iMessage to a non Apple device, I >>> guess it is delivered as a regular text message. Does it just cut off >>> after 160 characters? 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