Cheekismirks

On 1/1/2020 at 11:52 PM, twangster said:

In October on Ovation on the first cruise when the new app when active and RoyalIQ app went inactive the loophole allowing iPhone to use iMessage still worked for me.  

It took a couple of minutes for devices to become active for iMessage without a paid Voom plan, but once active iMessage was instant. WhatsApp didn't work for me.

There are reports that some people have not had success with iMessage but it's not clear if they waited long enough.  When I first tried it I connected and immediately tried to send an iMessage.  Seeing it not work I thought they must patched the loophole.  Then a few minutes later I received an iMessage and other notifications just like before.

I'll try again in February but I expect them to have closed the loophole by now.  

Twangster I hope you had a great cruise! Could you use iMessages still by any chance? 

14 hours ago, twangster said:

Welcome to the message boards!

RoyalIQ no longer works on Ovation. Ovation now uses the newer "Royal Caribbean" app.  

At the moment the new app has no chat feature for Ovation.

Bugger! That’s what I thought!! I’m sorry for asking stupid questions...if we all had iPhones and used Messenger, could we still use the free ‘royalwifi’? Sorry been on other cruise liners, but first time on Royal...bit scary really

Pls help! We are on the Ovation in April 2020, 17 of us (ranging between 2 & 73)...can you use the Royal iQ app for large group texting? If you have a few different booking/cabin numbers? TIA