Is Your Android Phone Not Receiving Texts From An iPhone User? Learn Why!

Not receiving texts from iPhone

1. Mobile networks are sometimes unpredictable. If you see a few or no bars, step outside or find a higher place indoors. If you’re in your home, you can use a signal booster to improve reception throughout the home.
2. Disable Airplane mode. Check to see if airplane mode is enabled, and once disabled, check your reception. Airplane mode shuts down every form of wireless communication, not only Wi-Fi.
3. Reboot the phone. Sometimes there are endless loops or other issues behind the scenes that you may be unable to diagnose but are easily solved with a reboot. This also installs any operating system updates the texting app may need.
4. Deregister iMessage. If you formerly used an iPhone, ask anyone who regularly texts with you with an iPhone to either disable iMessage or to send you a new text at your number, instead of contacting you from an old text thread. An iMessage thread doesn’t translate over to Android.
5. Update Android. Install any outstanding operating system updates, even if an update doesn’t seem relevant to the problem you experience. Some bug fixes and other repairs may address operations or feature the texting app uses. Wait for any updates to finish before texting.
6. Update your preferred texting app. Updates often resolve obscure issues or bugs that may prevent your texts from sending.
7. Clear the text app’s cache. Then, reboot the phone and restart the app.
8. Check your cellular provider’s website. If nothing else works, look for any alerts or updates concerning network issues. Network problems may not be immediately obvious to end-users, or may only affect certain functions.
9. Check blocked numbers. If you know someone is sending you texts, but you’re not receiving those texts, check to see if the number is blocked

Android not receiving texts from iphone

If you just signed off on a device, the iMessage account conversation with other iPhones would probably still be active with your Apple account, so you have to either deactivate iMessage completely or tell your iPhone friends to turn off iMessage conversations on your number (or just initiate a new thread via SMS, that should ‘kick in’ as well, but the first method of turning it off on your contact is better).

If your text messages stopped working after you updated your Android device to 8.0 Oreo, it may be because you’re using a third-party messaging app. Android 8.0 Oreo automatically puts third-party apps to sleep in order to conserve battery. On some devices, sleep mode disables app notifications, which may explain why your texts aren’t coming through.

One option is to use your device’s default messaging app—notifications for the default app are not put in sleep mode with the 8.0 Oreo update. However, if you want to continue using a third-party messaging app, try this:

Android devices

• Go to Settings > Battery > Battery Usage
• Tap More (three circles on the top right)
• Select Optimize Battery Usage
• Make sure All Apps is selected in the dropdown menu
• Scroll to find your messaging app and toggle to off

Android not receiving iphone texts

AT&T indicated that it was a problem with the network registration, given every piece of my phone’s communication worked except for receiving SMS. This turned out to be true. The solution was to put the sim card in another phone, which overrode the network registration for my number. After about a minute, the second phone received all of the texts that the first had not been able to get, and then I could move the sim card back into my regular phone and receive texts as normal.

1. Restarting the phone
2. Removing and reinserting the sim card
3. Uninstalling the Skype app
4. Calling AT&T support (611) and asking for them to reset the network registration of my phone
5. Restarting my phone in safe mode
6. Booting my phone into system recovery mode and wiping the cache partition

Some more things you can do if those don’t work

Turn Off Adaptive Battery

We all want our batteries to last as long as possible. Adaptive Battery is meant to help with this, but it can actually cause issues with your text message notifications being delivered. It turns out that keeping this off will still result in decent battery life while allowing you to get your text messages. If you’re having issues with receiving text messages, try turning off Adaptive Battery.

Deactivate iMessage

iMessage is a messaging system provided by Apple that only works with iOS devices. If you recently switched from an Apple device to an Android phone and aren’t receiving some text messages, then iMessage might be playing a role in this. If you forgot to turn off iMessage before making the switch to Android, then text messages from Apple devices to your Android phone might actually be sent to your iMessage account.

To resolve this issue, place your sim card into an iPhone, go to Settings on the iPhone, followed by Messages, and then switch the iMessage toggle off. You should also switch the toggle next to Facetime to the off position.

Contacts May Be Unintentionally on Spam List

Spam is a real problem that Android has recognized. Both the Messaging and Phone apps in recent versions of Android have the ability to detect spam calls and messages. Make sure that none of your contacts have been relegated to your text message spam list. To check for this, open your Messages app and then open the “hamburger” menu. Select “Spam and blocked.”

Check to see if any of your contacts have been included on the spam list. Select “Not spam” to ensure that these messages aren’t flagged as spam in the future.

Hopefully, the above methods will fix your Android phone not receiving text messages issue. If you have difficulty sending text messages instead, try to send it from your PC. Also, check out the ways to back up your SMS in Android.