How can I keep my texts from chopping up?

[hjh4864]

I have Samsung Galaxy S8. I have 2 friends that tell me texts chop up when they receive them, even my short texts. They are able to receive long texts from other people and those texts don't chop up. I am on AT&T and they have IPhones and are on Verizon. I have checked with other friends that have IPhones and on Verizon and they say my messages do not chop up. I have been in touched with AT&T a few times and they can not figure it out, the latest technicians says Samsung and Apple are in a war with each other. I don't believe that has anything to do with the problem since other people don't have the problem with my texts. Is there anyone who has any suggestions for my or my friends? I have to screen shot a text to them just so they can receive a whole text in one message and it is really getting old.

 

[D.P.G.]

I have the same thing happening I have an S8 Plus on Sprint and my friend has a iPhone 7 on AT&T. This has been happing for the last 3 years even tough both off us have upgraded the phones twice. We have tried everything one could imagine I'm an electrical engineer and he is a biomedical technician only saying this to indicate we are both very technical people and yet we have given up. It's one of those unsolved mysteries like past contact with aliens.

 

[CraftyMe2323]

You can convert long SMS to MMS in most texting applications. Check your settings within whatever texting app you use. Maybe that will help your issue. I know it's been an issue for a long time, and I know how frustrating it can be. Not sure what people on the iPhone side can do to help the situation. I know whenever my buddy with an iPhone texts me a long message, it gets all chopped up and I receive it in a random order. Very annoying trying to piece everything together sometimes when it's really long.

 

[CraftyMe2323]

Forgot to add a screenshot to show you what I'm referring to. I use Mood messenger, but most applications have this option.

 

[Ry]

I have Samsung Galaxy S8. I have 2 friends that tell me texts chop up when they receive them, even my short texts. They are able to receive long texts from other people and those texts don't chop up. I am on AT&T and they have IPhones and are on Verizon. I have checked with other friends that have IPhones and on Verizon and they say my messages do not chop up. I have been in touched with AT&T a few times and they can not figure it out, the latest technicians says Samsung and Apple are in a war with each other. I don't believe that has anything to do with the problem since other people don't have the problem with my texts. Is there anyone who has any suggestions for my or my friends? I have to screen shot a text to them just so they can receive a whole text in one message and it is really getting old.

Because the messaging standards are old.

 

[Rukbat]

First - if it happens with some people and not others, it's happening on their end, not yours.

Second - get Android Messages - that has (and will have) the latest standards, including RCS (when your carrier and the recipient's carrier implement it).

iPhones use iMessage, not SMS. When they receive your text it gets converted (in their phones) to iMessage format, and that can be set any number of ways - by the individual user. (And since Apple won't allow anyone else to use the iMessage format, that causes a problem between iPhones and all others. If we could all use iMessage, a lot of these problems would disappear.)

Even if you convert long messages to MMS, it won't affect short (under 160 characters total) messages, so that's not the total answer. Blame it on Apple. Not only are their products "for the rest of us", as their old ads used to say, "they don't work in the real world". If Apple were the only cellphone manufacturer (as they wish they were), everything would work. But they're not - and they refuse to make the SMS part of their iMessage app work properly.

 

[Ry]

First - if it happens with some people and not others, it's happening on their end, not yours.

Second - get Android Messages - that has (and will have) the latest standards, including RCS (when your carrier and the recipient's carrier implement it).

iPhones use iMessage, not SMS. When they receive your text it gets converted (in their phones) to iMessage format, and that can be set any number of ways - by the individual user. (And since Apple won't allow anyone else to use the iMessage format, that causes a problem between iPhones and all others. If we could all use iMessage, a lot of these problems would disappear.)

Even if you convert long messages to MMS, it won't affect short (under 160 characters total) messages, so that's not the total answer. Blame it on Apple. Not only are their products "for the rest of us", as their old ads used to say, "they don't work in the real world". If Apple were the only cellphone manufacturer (as they wish they were), everything would work. But they're not - and they refuse to make the SMS part of their iMessage app work properly.

So what's an iPhone user using if they've disabled iMessage?

 

[hjh4864]

So what's an iPhone user using if they've disabled iMessage?

My son and nieces have Iphones, it doesn't chop up on them. So is it really an Apple problem Or is there a setting my friends need to try?