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Road Dog |
We gave her an iphone 4. It has no cell service, just our home wifi. She has some friends changing schools and wants to be able to text them to keep in touch. Anyone know how to make this work? Seem like my oldest daughter could do this with her old one before we got her an iphone. Any help is appreciated! | ||
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Bald Headed Squirrel Hunter |
The iPhone 4 has to be on wifi and her friends need to also have iPhones and use iMessage, not SMS. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss" | |||
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Unflappable Enginerd |
As long as you have wifi you can use FB messenger. __________________________________ NRA Benefactor I lost all my weapons in a boating, umm, accident. http://www.aufamily.com/forums/ | |||
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| No place to go and all day to get there  |
Your phone should have a feature called “text message forwarding”, by pairing her phone to yours she can send text or SMS messages to her non-IPhone friends. At least it works with my iPad to iPhone pairing. Just sign her in to your iMessage account. Just another day in paradise. | |||
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eh-TEE-oh-clez |
Snapchat. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
This or Viber or google voice. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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Wait, what? |
Bottom line is a chat app of some kind; there are a large number of them available. It will require that her network of friends download the same app. “Remember to get vaccinated or a vaccinated person might get sick from a virus they got vaccinated against because you’re not vaccinated.” - author unknown | |||
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Member |
I've been using WhatsApp to communicate with my daughter while she's studying abroad. It uses a WiFi connection. With it we can text, talk and video between us. Her friends would need to install the app too. It's been great for us.
I know it's popular, but I'd recommend against Snapchat. The premise behind it is that messages / pictures are temporary (I can assure you that they are NOT). Sometimes kids don't fully comprehend the ramifications of certain actions... | |||
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Member |
Google Voice, mentioned by RayHRH, wouldn't require her friends to have a separate app. It gives her another phone number that they can text to. She WILL need to have the GV app on her phone though. Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine-millimeter bullet. - Dave Barry "Never go through life saying 'I should have'..." - quote from the 9/11 Boatlift Story (thanks, sdy for posting it) | |||
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| Road Dog |
Thanks, everyone! | |||
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King Nothing |
WhatsApp is what came to my mind. Believe it creates a number for you and allows calls and texts without a plan, just need wifi. Admittedly, I've never used it, just heard of it and that it's supposed to be good. ...Then it comes to be that the soothing light at the end of your tunnel, was just a freight train coming your way... | |||
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Told cops where to go for over 29 years… |
But understand, you will also receive any texts meant for her and she will see any texts you send or are sent for you... What part of "...Shall not be infringed" don't you understand???  | |||
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| Go ahead punk, make my day |
Yeah, my friend crossed the streams like that with his kid... It took us awhile to figure out why he often never responded to imessages, cuz his son would see them first sometimes and then delete them as unwanted. Solution to that is to make a childs itunes account which the parent controls. I text my 11 year olds on their ipad minis, but they can't text anyone else (in addition to being locked down on many, many fronts). | |||
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Textfree app? | |||
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This is correct. iMessage uses email protocol not SMS (simple message system) protocol. Can also Facetime and FB messenger etc. I suppose you could get her a data only plan to send sms off wifi...? — Pissed off beats scared every time… - Frank Castle | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
They can download the free chat app "kik". All you need is an internet connection and that all users have the Kik app. There is also an app called Wechat that works the same way. | |||
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