You may have heard that i. Message on i. Phones or i. Pads will encrypt your text messages. The secure text messages i. Phone creates actually uses i. Message servers and avoids your mobile carrier’s SMS service all together. There are a few catches however, The other user MUST have an i, phone, i Pad or Apple device.
One of the next things we asked ourselves was, are iMessages stored on my phone?
Only messages and attachments in i. Message are stored . ) Of course, even i. Message is much better than traditional text messages. SMS messages aren’t even private or secure when you’re sending and receiving them! Your cellular carrier can see their contents.
This of course begs the inquiry “Does iMessage use cellular data?”
Unlike traditional text messages, i. Message sends information over the internet. That means it uses either Wi-Fi or your cellular data to send messages. So make sure you aren’t sending too many selfies to your friends and family if you aren’t connected to a Wi-Fi network. Connect to Wi-Fi to use i. Message without using cellular data.
, i Messages are texts, photos, or videos that you send to another i, phone, i, pad, i Pod touch, or Mac over Wi-Fi or cellular-data networks. These messages are always encrypted and appear in blue text bubbles. To turn i. Message on or off, go to Settings > Messages. If you aren’t using i. Message, you can use SMS/MMS.
Does imessage use credit?
Answer: A: Yes, you need mobile credit to initially activate “i. Message” service. Even if that means you activated it before and used it. But since, you turned it off once, it would require to activate it again.
A question we ran across in our research was “Do I need a text messaging plan to use iMessages?”.
To use SMS/MMS on i. Phone, you’ll need a text messaging plan. Contact your wireless carrier for more information. You can also set up your other Apple devices to send and receive messages from any Apple device. If Wi-Fi is unavailable, i. Messages will be sent over cellular data. Cellular data rates may apply.
How secure is iMessage on iPhone?
The service makes use of the end-to-end encryption built into i. Cloud to keep i. Message users’ messages secure. Both messages and attachments that are sent and received via the Messages app are protected by end-to-end encryption, and no one but the sender and the recipient can access them.
How much data does it cost to send iMessage?
To send i. Messages, you need a data plan, or you can send them over Wi, and fi. If you use Wi. Fi, there’s no cost, but if you use your cellphone’s data, it’s deducted from your data plan. Sending pictures or videos over i. Message can use a lot of data very quickly.