iPhone can’t message android phones

[umar197201]

I have an iPhone. And nobody who has an android phone can receive messages from me. Why ?

[bristolian]

Sounds like your phone is set to send messages using Apple's propriety iMessage rather than SMS text message.

You can toggle this by following Settings > Messages menu on your phone. A quick Google search suggests you can either choose to disable iMessage entirely, or enable SMS on.

[Chris_B]

@umar197201   I would say these Android users once had an iPhone and when they changed to Android they didn’t turn off iMessage.  Now your device knows what text format to send in based on what receivers setup up so if iMessage is enabled on their apple account your device will try and send via iMessage unless you turn off iMessage or they turn off iMessage on their apple account.