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AREND
Newbie

I cant send or receive photos in text message to any phones but iphones. I have an iphone 6s. how do I fix this?

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Ann154
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Is the phone set up to send as SMS if iMessages is not available?

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AREND
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Yes it is set to send as SMS if iMessage is not available.

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Ann154
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You need a 4G LTE network connection to send MMS messages with photos over the cellular network 

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AREND
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I have a 4GLTE network. I can text pictures to iPhones but not to noniOS devices. My wife has an iPhone 6 (mine is 6s) on the same network plan as mine and she has no problem.

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vzw_customer_support
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AREND
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my phone prior to the iPhone was a basic LG flip phone

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vzw_customer_support
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Great. Let's keep checking settings. Do you have Group Messages on? https://www.verizonwireless.com/support/knowledge-base-207135/

When was the last time a picture was successfully sent to a non-iPhone? 


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AREND
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I can send group messages. Turning group messages on or off has had no effect on ability to send pictures to non iPhone. I haven’t been able to send pics to non iPhone since I got the phone about a year ago, and I never tried with the old LG flip phone.

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vzw_customer_support
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I appreciate the clarification, AREND. I'm wondering if your text messages were blocked on the account. iPhones have a pretty cool feature with iMessage which enables you to message other iPhone users even if text messages are blocked on the account. 

Have you checked the features on your account to see if text messaging is blocked http://spr.ly/6585DZfsB?

I will send you a Direct Message in order to get more details. 

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