When the recipient’s phone is turned off or dead, Apple holds the i. Messages sent to that account on its servers and delivers them to the i. Phone when the recipient turns it back on. However, this does not mean your contact won’t be able to read your message if the phone is dead.
However, if the person you texted has i. Message configured to a Mac, i. Pad or even an i. Pod touch those devices might receive the i. Message, even though that person’s i. Phone is dead. So in this situation, an i. Message can say delivered, but the text recipient’s i. Phone may actually just have a dead battery.
In general, i. Message won’t say delivered if the recipient’s phone is off. However, in some particular cases, it might say delivered. Let’s take a closer look. A couple of conditions need to be met for i. Message to be delivered to the recipient’s phone. The phone needs to be turned on., i Message needs to be enabled.
How do iMessage messages get delivered when phone is off?
By default they will simply wait for the phone to be turned back on, and then they will be delivered. While the phone is off that message will wait on Apple’s servers. You can i. Message them when they have Wi-Fi, but your messages will continue to send if they leave that coverage, just as SMS messages instead. Will an i. Message eventually deliver?
Another frequent query is “How long do iMessages take to send if the iPhone is off?”.
, i Messages are sent through Apple’s servers, not directly from one i. Phone to another. If the receiving i. Phone is off, the i. Message will be held on Apple’s servers. Although it’s unclear the exact amount of time Apple will try to deliver the message before giving up, from my experience it’s on the order of days or even weeks rather than hours.
A frequent inquiry we ran across in our research was “Will an iMessage be marked as delivered if the recipient is offline?”.
It will not. Delivered means the message is now on the recipients device. If the recipient’s is off/not connected to the internet, the i. Message will not reach their device and will not register as delivered.
What happens when you send an iMessage message to someone else?
If the other person has other devices with i. Message enabled, one of those will receive the message before the i. Phone and the sender will see the status “delivered ”. If the i. Phone is the only device, the message will only show delivered when the phone has been switched on again and it has access to the Internet.
Why doesn’t my text show as delivered if the recipient is dead?
So, if the text recipient is only using their i. Phone and had no other devices setup for i. Message, like an i. Pad or Mac computer, the text will NOT show up as delivered. However, if the person you texted has i. Message configured to a Mac, i. Pad or even an i. Pod touch those devices might receive the i. Message, even though that person’s i. Phone is dead.
Why is my iMessage not being delivered to the recipient?
If the recipient’s is off/not connected to the internet, the i. Message will not reach their device and will not register as delivered.
What does delivered mean on iMessage?
Delivered means the message is now on the recipients device. If the recipient’s is off/not connected to the internet, the i. Message will not reach their device and will not register as delivered.
Does iMessage show up as delivered on all devices?
The Answer: NO but there’s a caveat!, an i Message will only show up as ” Delivered” if it has been successfully delivered to at least one of the recipient’s devices that are enabled for i, and message. So, if the text recipient is only using their i. Phone and had no other devices setup for i. Message, like an i. Pad or Mac computer,.
Another inquiry we ran across in our research was “Why is my iMessage not showing as delivered?”.
, actually, i Message not saying “Delivered” simply means the messages has not yet been successfully delivered to the recipient’s device due to some reasons. Reasons could be: their phone not having available Wi-Fi or cellular data networks, they have their i. Phone off or on Do Not Disturb mode, etc.