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First, the best advice for dealing with a hungry troll: don't feed him. Ignore this guy, and he will quickly get bored and move on.
In the interim: there is currently no way to block someone from sending you iMessage messages or FaceTime call requests. Apple currently treats these services similarly to SMS text messages and regular voice calls - just as ...
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Your brother's Apple ID probably still has his phone number associated with it for iMessage. The smoothest way to deal with this is to have him disassociate his phone number from his Apple ID.
In this KB article, see the section "How to unlink a phone number".
If he has other Apple devices (Mac or iPad) that are using his Apple ID, your iMessages may be ...
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In the messages prefs, under the messages tab do you have the "save history when conversations are closed" checked or not?
I generally don't close my conversations so I haven't lost any of my messages but if you regularly close them then this might be the option to check, if you haven't already done so.
Also if you have your main (Apple ID) account listed ...
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I would sign out of iMessage on the device and ensure the carrier is only sending messages to that phone number.
Once you've ruled out SMS to the old and new number being delivered, you can re-enable iMessage and test Apple's delivery to that phone.
It's almost certainly a problem with the sender's address book having wrong numbers, but removing and then ...
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I don't think so because it wouldn't be able to tell which device you are using and when. But what you could do is change your mac notifications to not receive any notifications for the messages app, however if you use messages.app for other messaging services, you probably won't get notifications for those either though. But once you read the message on any ...
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I have seen people set up iMessage in two ways:
The default manner where you accept messages from all email, phone that you have attached to your Apple ID (and this implies that people can send you message to more than one "address" and that conversations will not be threaded).
By restricting the receiving addressed so that people can only send you ...
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If the message was delivered, whenever the recipient reads it, a Read [Date] will automatically be displayed beneath. Bear in mind, as Emil points out in the comments, that for this behaviour to happen, the receiver must have the Send Read Receipts option enabled.
If the message is marked as not delivered, it means that, for some reason, that message ...
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iMessage will use sms/text messaging if the data link to the Apple servers are non-functional. You can configure the phone to send as text by default.
Note that all text messages on the phone are stored in a sqlite3 database file, so if you are concerned and want to access that information, performing an unencrypted backup of the phone will give you a copy ...
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The serial number may be an issue. When MacOSX thinks it is running on dodgy (i.e. non-Apple) hardware it usually has far more severe problems. There's no lockdown of an installation of MacOSX to a particular Mac, i.e. no DRM with keys and mandated validation with the vendor as with Windows. Apple cares most about people buying hardware, so the only "piracy" ...
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I believe that the siri command for imessage is: Message Alice i'll be there soon. This will not prevent it from sending a text message. To prevent it from sending a text message, go into settings --> messages --> and turn off the "Send as SMS" switch.
In her contact it should look like this:
Alice Appleseed
Phone: (XXX) XXX-XXXX
Email: ...
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I have been having this pesky problem as well. Mine was solved by reseting the password with the provider.
I found a post that stated that someone solved this by logging into AIM.com website and reseting their password. I tried this and found that since my AIM account was set up through another provider (Apple) that I needed to go to Apple and change my ...
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