If you in a plan to switch from iPhone to any other phone which runs on android or windows phone due to any causes like personal reasons and this switching might be temporary or permanent. In your new phone you may or may not known that you won’t receive any messages from the other iPhone users.
The reason behind this is due to iMessage because itself coupled with a phone number which belongs to iPhone and if you are not disable the iMessage attachment can end up hoarding the messages in some sort of message will be disappear and it won’t be delivered to the non iOS device. If you don’t disable imessage from your phone number then there is a chance of losing some inbound text messages on the new phone that have been sent from the other iPhone user.
In this article let us discuss how to disable the iMessage if the case of active and how to deactive the iMessage using the phone number and web form.
How to disable iMessage if still your iPhone is still active
This is the easier way to disable iMessage if still your iphone is still in active, goto settings and simple disable the iMessage service on your iPhone. That’s it with in few seconds it will be disabled.
How to deactive the iMessage using phone number and web form
If you aren’t unable to disable the iMessage manually on your iPhone then there is an another option which can be possible by using official deregistered service offerd from Apple. For this process you should have a mobile in you hand because it sends a code to your phone number to complete the deactivation. Follow the steps given below
- As I mentioned earlier you should have mobile with the same phone number because you will receive a code.
- Now go to official reregistration website on Apple.com and enter the phone number to deactivate the iMessage service.
- when your phone with same number gets the conformation code through text message, enter that code in the website and click on submit to remove the phone number from iMessage database.
- That’s now you phone number is removed from the iMessage database.