-Apple's iMessaging Issues

Are you  having problems receiving texts after switching from an iPhone to Android? Well, you are not alone. Your messages are trapped within Apple's  iCloud.

After Apple iCloud registers a phone number as an iPhone and  the user switches to android phone, Apple still recognises the number and retains access to the text messaging system.

The iMassage issue which dates back to 2011 when Apple introduced iMessage with Apple's iOS 5 smartphone got worse recently over a server glitch rendering moot one of Apple’s key methods for trying to remedy the issue.

The Problem

iMessage intercepts a text message sent to another iOS device and re-routes it through its servers rather than sending it via the wireless carriers as a standard SMS or MMS message bypassing a wireless carrier's text messaging charges which is an almost perfect system for iPhones, the problem arises when there is a switch from iPhone to Android.

The Solution

While Apple isn’t going into details on when or how the upcoming iOS release will improve things, Apple is certainly hoping to have a solution once that is in place. The company is also planning to do even more in a future software update. It declined to offer specifics, saying merely the coming patch would "have an additional bug fix", Apple told Re/code in a statement.

Until then, this issue can be avoided if users turn off iMessage on their iPhone.