
using your own iPhone (doesn't need to be jailbroken) my apple-ID-imessage-account sends an imessage to a phone-number-based-imessage-account but doesn't receive a delivery receipt after some time does apple try to determine the recipient's apple ID / email address and send them a fallback email? and what happens if they didn't sign their apple ID into imessage.)Ģ. It's a bit unclear how/if fallback currently works in iMessage with mixed accounts between sender and receiver (e.g. You can still send imessages to any phone number provided that that number is in fact registered to an iPhone (and the recipient hasn't disabled imessage).Īutomatic falling back to SMS (which normally happens on iPhones anytime an imessage fails to deliver) is not available, although email fallback should still work under certain scenarios (that part is an apple server feature that apple built into imessage, probably for iPad/Mac users who were or are still using imessage without an iPhone). In either scenario, whether a mac-as-bridge or old-jailbroken-iDevice-as-bridge, your imessages will appear as coming from an email address (you can choose any email address that you have access to).
IMESSAGE FOR ANDROID TABLET MAC
Or, (2) and an always-on Mac with Beeper installed and imessage logged in to your apple ID / imessage account. You'll need an Apple ID and either (1) a jailbroken device that sits at home, plugged in, and connected to the Internet at all times. You won't be able to have your messages appear as coming from a phone number.

Here’s a few of the more common setups beeper users might have: 1.

There are going to be quite a few different ways to use iMessage in beeper, because there are actually quite a few different ways apple allows apple hardware to send and receive iMessages.
