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Apple finally makes deregistering your phone number from iMessage easy

You’ve made the call to switch to the latest top-of-the-range Android smartphone, leaving your old iPhone as a relic of the past. You marvel at the water proof construction of your phone’s casing and the fact that you can tweak almost every aspect of your its interface just by installing a new app.

But for some reason none of your friends who still have iPhones can SMS you any more and you wonder why. It’s more than likely because you didn’t turn off iMessage on your iPhone before you made the switch and now your friend’s iPhones are all trying, in vein, to reach you.

In the past the only way you would be able to rectify this situation would be to pop your SIM card back into an iPhone and turn off iMessage, deregistering your phone number from Apple’s network. It was a simple, if only mildly irritating, fix for those who still had their iPhones lying around but for those who’s iPhones had been stolen or broken before making the switch, it meant that you were doomed to never receive a simple SMS message from iPhone users for perpetuity.

Until today that is, because Apple has just released a little tool that fixes all of this iMadness with a simple code SMSed to your phone number. So now you can feel free to leave the Apple ecosystem, and iMessage at will.

[Source – Apple, Via – The Verge]

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