Up until a week ago I could send and receive picture messages without my WiFi or data enabled, and members of my household still can. I went to Verizon store and they told I was never able to send the message without data. Well, that is just not true, because I did. I tried to call Verizon support but the wait time was basically endless. Then I started reading on the Verizon community. Several people have posted about similar problems and received different answers from Verizon support, ranging from, "you always needed data to send" to "you need data to send after the update" to "the update caused this problem and Verizon is working on a fix". So, I am wondering if someone or multiple representatives from Verizon can speak with some certainty on this issue. I would like to go back to being able send a picture message without my data on as I generally keep it off.
