Apple: NEW iMessage functionality! Now it WON'T lose all your texts

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People getting rid of an iPhone to date have often struck a rather troublesome problem: Apple's iMessage service assumes that all SMS texts to their phone number should use the over-the-top iMessage app. Texts intended for an iPhone have therefore failed to land when folks move to rival phones, as they disappear into the bowels of Apple.

Cupertino has now recognised the problem and popped up a Deregister iMessage tool.

The web-based tool is simplicity itself: iPhone refugees just give their phone number, then punch in the transfer code provided by TXT. If you still own an iPhone, all you need to do is turn off iMessage.

The release of the tool fulfils a promise to fix the bug Apple made last May.

Cupertino's hardly jumped on this problem: a class action regarding the issue which itself dates from May says Apple knew about it back in 2011. ®

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