International Texting -- iMessage vs. SMS/MMS

Cali Cat wrote:

I have an iPhone and use iMessage with SMS and MMS enabled. I assume you also have an iPhone since that is the only way to use iMessage. I have been to multiple countries and have never been charged for using iMessage since international texting is including in my plan. I have used iMessage to other iPhone users and Android users. However, I always get a confirmation text once I land in a country that is included in the plan. Since you don't say where you plan to go, make sure you see the confirmation text since the international data and texting is a limited list of countries. The confirmation text will tell what you can do included in your plan plus upgraded services that you can purchase.

The only way this works is if you turned off data while overseas with iMessages to fall back to SMS.  iMessages ALWAYS sends over data unless you are not connected over data or sending to a person who doesn’t have an iPhone.  iMessages uses minute amounts of data unless you are sending videos/pictures usually a couple bytes to a few kilobytes for text only with emojis.