Apparently Apple phones will silently phone home an SMS as an iMessage heartbeat when you turned off data.
I bought a SIM card in France, loaded 10 EUR for a 9,95 plan. But my balance declined to 9,85 despite having data turned off and not making any calls/SMSs.
There was no record in Messages, but my provider showed me sending a text.
Ugh. Another 5 EUR added just to buy the 9,95 plan.
> Apparently Apple phones will silently phone home an SMS as an iMessage heartbeat
I recently traveled abroad and bought a local SIM card, and when I first activated it I got a dialog asking if I approved of it sending the iMessage activation SMS. It wasn't silent.
Seems new. I still dunno why Apple made it such a secret.
Drove me bonkers when my carrier claimed I sent an SMS but my phone showed I had not.
Edit: others reported that there’s a message that said “Your Carrier May charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage” that would still send even if you hit “Cancel”.
Seems like a lot of providers don’t charge for this SMS, but for those that do, it can be a costly int’l SMS.
Apparently Apple phones will silently phone home an SMS as an iMessage heartbeat when you turned off data.
I bought a SIM card in France, loaded 10 EUR for a 9,95 plan. But my balance declined to 9,85 despite having data turned off and not making any calls/SMSs.
There was no record in Messages, but my provider showed me sending a text.
Ugh. Another 5 EUR added just to buy the 9,95 plan.