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I could send iMessages fine - I could send SMS's fine - but fallback from iMessage to SMS when ",[232,233,234],"em",{},"the recipient"," was unavailable - nope. It's supposed to time out and fall back after about 5 mins.",[211,237,238],{},"I'd tried turning",[218,240,243],{"className":241,"code":242,"language":223},[221],"Send as SMS\n",[225,244,242],{"__ignoreMap":227},[211,246,247],{},"off and on - no help.",[211,249,250],{},"Then - under",[218,252,255],{"className":253,"code":254,"language":223},[221],"Settings > Messages > Send & Receive\n",[225,256,254],{"__ignoreMap":227},[211,258,259,260,263,264,267],{},"I noticed that my phone number was listed under the ",[232,261,262],{},"\"You can be reached by iMessage at:\""," list but not under the ",[232,265,266],{},"\"Start new conversations from:\""," list.",[211,269,270],{},"It makes sense (at least to me) that a message sent from an e-mail address can't fall back to SMS - but why was the number not available? It's automatically there on the receive list and I could not see any way to add it to the send list.",[211,272,273,274,267],{},"So - I tried turning iMessage off and on. After about 5 mins - bingo - the number came into the ",[232,275,266],{},[211,277,278],{},"But there was a final wrinkle. Fallback to SMS would not work for any conversations already started at this point. 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