Paying extra for smileys in a text

newlife1

Hi mh husband just told me that if I put a smiley at the end of my texts, which I do all the time, then I am charged 9pence extra on top of my text. I use smileys all the time and was not aware of this? How is this money taken? is it off my text alloance or my credit balance?

giffgafful

If your phone converts old school 🙂 type smilies to fancy multimedia ones, it is probably converting your text messages to MMS messages which are not included in goodybags and cost 16p each.

gwpreston

Download an app like TouchPal and use that my friend

neil0812

Hi,

It depends what phone you are using? I have an iPhone and use smileys all of the time and never get charged extra. However, some phones like Samsung turn your message into an MMS if you add smileys. You will be charged 16p per MMS from airtime credit if this is the case. What phone do you have?

Cheers, Neil

jumbo4

it is taken off your balance so make sure you have some credit available as it will not get sent,

drsdiddee

When I send smily face to another GG user it still says it is free, so i dont think smily face is MMS.

cheers

paulb32

Hi, yes you do get charged if you put emoji's in a text message, it depends on your input settings, what phone do you have? I have a samsung smart phone and I have my input settings on automatic and I don't get charged if i put emojis in my message.

Hope this helps.

newlife1

I have smart phone so do my contacts so I don't understand. I do get a message warning about charge so don't know what to do now

newlife1

Hi thanks but Im usiing Lenovo laptop My ipad is with a friend at the moment.

newlife1

Hi problem is I have too much credit like £23 and the MMS which tried to send still didnt go.