How Do I Resend an iMessage As an SMS Text Message?

Perhaps you’re in a area with limited data coverage, no wifi or perhaps there’s just a service outage but you need to send an SMS but iMessage still want’s to have its way. Here’s how you resend an iMessage as an Sms.

1. Find the failed iMessage in messages,
2. Tap and hold on the failed iMessage
3. Tap “send as text message”
4. Done

Of course this will only work if the recipient has chosen to add a mobile number to their account.