Went to Apple site. Tried resending to several folk using the (!). Restarted both iPhone 8 and iPad. No joy.
Using 15.7.1 with t-Mobile. My WiFi text to wife in house worked. I do not see the “send as text” option in settings. Apple suggest updating to 16.0. Is that the best/only option? T.I.A.

Ah, this is a question, not an offering.

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It is what it is.

Yes, sorry to get anyone’s hopes up. Probably just evil T_mobile messing with me

My TMobile did that to me a couple of days ago. IPhone, iPad and Mac all doing the same thing. I restarted everything and the iPhone worked. Since none were working I'd bet that it was coincidental that restarting corresponded with it working.

Think I may have figured it out. A friend who is in to astrology says Mars is retrograde in Gemini causing troubling focusing in communication!
Actually I will restart everything again including my evil Comcast router and then upgrade if need be. At least I can still make calls (knock on wood). Thanks for the tip. I may just have to buy a roll of stamps before the price goes up.

Disconnect from your WiFi network and then reconnect… this usually fixes it for me.

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Aloha, Ken


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Yes, thanks Michael. Restarting the laptop appears to have reset the pad and phone (?!). At least working for now.

I did disconnect the wifi as well so no scientific solution but one of those resets worked. Thanks for the help