iMessage (and FaceTime) is currently suffering from another outage, as most of you probably have noticed by now. If iMessage is down, your message should be sent through as a text message. However, you’ll probably get hit with a ‘did not send’ error then have to resend it manually as a text message.
But what about force sending a text message right away instead of an iMessage? Here’s a neat tip on how to do it in iOS 5/6+ (via OSX Daily):
- Send an iMessage, but as it’s sending, tap and hold on the message itself.
- You should see an option to ‘Send as Text Message’ (if iOS text to speech is enabled, tap the right arrow to reveal it). Tap it.
- Voila!
Text messages get sent through any cellular connection quite consistently, so when iMessage is down this is a great tip to force send text messages. Let us know how this tip works for you!