Apple iMessage blocked my phone number!
Just curious if anyone else had experience with this. I have a separate phone for work, which is an iphone, and a separate apple ID for it. I pay as you go with someone else's credit card...
Anyway, one day my iMessage stopped using my phone number and instead used my associated Apple ID email address. I tried everything. Turning phone off and on, signing out and in, restoring network settings... nothing worked. So I finally called Apple for help. After about an hour on the phone troubleshooting the representative said, "Oh! That's why! Your phone number has been blocked. That happens when you have too many flagged messages. This is a very rare occurrence, but it could have been from messages before you even owned your number or messages that other people have sent to you." Anyway she unblocked my number and told me it could only block unblocked the one time without involving the engineering team.
Has anyone else had this experience? I do body rubs and some dom/fetish work and pretty careful not to engage in much explicit talk over text. I was very surprised Apple does this. So they are monitoring and flagging my messages?? I suppose worst case scenario is they block me again and I have to only use regular texting instead of iMessage. I suppose I really don't need iMessage except I do prefer to have it because I like to see when a client is texting me via iMessage rather than regular texting because that way I know it's not a fake number and they are less likely to be a time waster. Also occasionally using Facetime.
Re: Apple iMessage blocked my phone number!
This is disturbing. I'm an Android user and I use Google Voice for customers. It's been ten years and I haven't run into any problems yet. But I don't use it for real time meetups although the conversations can be a little graphic sometimes. Does Google Voice or TextNow work on iOS?