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It seems that his mother is on android, and even though she has signed out of imessage, apple's servers will not deliver messages to her phone number for people on iphones.

I can see how this is a little self-serving on apple's part.

Maybe she can delete her apple account?

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She needs to deregister iMessage I think. She can do that on her Mac laptop or online:

Deregister iMessage on your iPhone or online: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT203042

Direct link for convenience (scroll down to “No longer have your iPhone?”): https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage/

Edit: oh I see, the problem is with having the email registered with iMessage.

See “Change iMessage settings in Messages on Mac” [1] and scroll down to “You can be reached for messages at”:

Open the Message app on the laptop and click the checkbox to deregister the email.

Or she can change her Apple ID email address online [2] to some other one, which would deregister the email from iMessage.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/messages/icht39422/mac

[2]: https://appleid.apple.com/

> She needs to

But thing is she shouldn't in the first place.

Oh I don’t disagree.

Given that she is in such a situation though, I’m just trying to be helpful by offering some hopefully useful info.

Worth noting that RCS is a similar shit show. When I opted into this when I had an Android temporarily, it broke (some) SMS for iOS when I moved back. I had to set the android handset up again, log in with my google account and deregister it, then flatten the android handset again.

This was ironic in a way because I was just trying to activate WhatsApp with SMS so I didn't have to use SMS/RCS/iMessage!

How exactly will Apple know she no longer has an iPhone if she does not deregister?

How your computer know there is no longer a neighbour with an IP address X.X.X.X at MM:MM:MM:MM:MM:MM MAC address? Timeout

> his mother

I'm forced to agree with the blog author here:

> It’s weird to me that people visit this site, read my writing, and use “he” to refer to the author of it… Y’all! I’m not being subtle or secretive here; I am not a covert woman. The name is not a fake-out.

I assumed the author was female based solely on reading the post. But the website is also called "maya.land", and decorated with flowers. Why is everyone referring to the author as male?

That’s something you can do from iOS or macOS, or you can change your account password (which can be done on the web)

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