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Easy Roaming warning - be very careful
We flew into California, and turned data roaming off within seconds of turning on my phone. Boom - not fast enough - $12 charge for the few seconds my apps tried to sync. The next day someone tr...
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Community Power UserIf you are using the iPhone iMessages app (blue text bubbles), that is on the data stream, not the SMS stream, and you WILL be billed for data for receiving text messages.
Thank you for pointing out that. iMessages, One more thing that needs to be careful about.
And no, I wasn't receiving iMessage, just normal text verification messages (grey bubbles) from banks.
Confusing as if the Roam is off, how could iMessage take the data stream? Should it not receive anything until connected to WIFI? I'm not sure
