wesnliz Posted November 18, 2023 #1 Share Posted November 18, 2023 We prepaid for the premium internet, I seem to be getting conflicting information - will I be able to send texts via iMessage with this plan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itried4498 Posted November 18, 2023 #2 Share Posted November 18, 2023 Yes. iMessages are sent via data not SMS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
five. Posted November 18, 2023 #3 Share Posted November 18, 2023 Supposedly you can actually send iMessages with no plan at all. I plan to test that out in a week. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riles34 Posted November 18, 2023 #4 Share Posted November 18, 2023 34 minutes ago, five. said: Supposedly you can actually send iMessages with no plan at all. I plan to test that out in a week. This is true. Sent iMessages just being connected to the wifi but no internet plan. Worked on the Celebration, Vista, Glory and Venezia. Just note it will only work for text and not photos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ItsADryHumor Posted November 18, 2023 #5 Share Posted November 18, 2023 1 hour ago, five. said: Supposedly you can actually send iMessages with no plan at all. I plan to test that out in a week. Can confirm. We did it all week on Celebration without any additional charges. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itried4498 Posted November 18, 2023 #6 Share Posted November 18, 2023 That’s not true. Sometimes iMessages occasionally come through, sometimes more often than others, but there’s absolutely no trick to having 100% success. If you need that service you cannot rely on that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riles34 Posted November 18, 2023 #7 Share Posted November 18, 2023 41 minutes ago, Itried4498 said: That’s not true. Sometimes iMessages occasionally come through, sometimes more often than others, but there’s absolutely no trick to having 100% success. If you need that service you cannot rely on that. I never had an issue with iMessage on 4 ships. Maybe it was interrupted during the times you were not connected to the wifi just like when you have the internet plan and the wifi craps out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itried4498 Posted November 18, 2023 #8 Share Posted November 18, 2023 2 minutes ago, Riles34 said: I never had an issue with iMessage on 4 ships. Maybe it was interrupted during the times you were not connected to the wifi just like when you have the internet plan and the wifi craps out? It works intermittently for me, sometimes not at all. Therese’s tons of threads on this, most people have the same experience as me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jelly_Toast Posted November 18, 2023 #9 Share Posted November 18, 2023 8 hours ago, five. said: Supposedly you can actually send iMessages with no plan at all. I plan to test that out in a week. Did not work on Vista last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jsglow Posted November 18, 2023 #10 Share Posted November 18, 2023 17 hours ago, wesnliz said: We prepaid for the premium internet, I seem to be getting conflicting information - will I be able to send texts via iMessage with this plan? And to add, IMs are possible with all 3 internet plans. The step up from Social to Value adds in the full internet thus giving one access to email if that's important to anyone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Iamthesea Posted November 19, 2023 #11 Share Posted November 19, 2023 (edited) 12 hours ago, five. said: Supposedly you can actually send iMessages with no plan at all. I plan to test that out in a week. 11 hours ago, Riles34 said: This is true. Sent iMessages just being connected to the wifi but no internet plan. Worked on the Celebration, Vista, Glory and Venezia. Just note it will only work for text and not photos. This is confusing. How can you send iMessages, with WiFi, while on the ship without the Internet plan. You have to have a plan to get thr WiFi. Correct? Edited November 19, 2023 by Iamthesea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itried4498 Posted November 19, 2023 #12 Share Posted November 19, 2023 (edited) 4 hours ago, Iamthesea said: This is confusing. How can you send iMessages, with WiFi, while on the ship without the Internet plan. You have to have a plan to get thr WiFi. Correct? When you connect to WiFi for access to Carnival’s app, SOMETIMES notifications including iMessages come through. For me, it’s worked intermintently but on some cruises it didn’t work at all. Most everybody reports a similar experience. When it comes to paying $20/day for WiFi I’m a cheap mofo and if there was a trick to getting consistent free iMessage access I would’ve learned it. Alas, there’s not. Edited November 19, 2023 by Itried4498 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
five. Posted November 19, 2023 #13 Share Posted November 19, 2023 I also saw this setting mentioned on another thread to be aware of: On 10/2/2023 at 2:14 PM, mpacker said: On our last cruise a lot of people were having issues on iphones. it was because they were using private relay inside of icloud. it was basically trying to route everything through apple. i finally explained this to GS and "they" started fixing everyones issues 🙂 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ray98 Posted November 19, 2023 #14 Share Posted November 19, 2023 Sometimes it works....sometimes it works intermittently.....sometimes it doesn't work at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Please sign in to comment
You will be able to leave a comment after signing in
Sign In Now