iMessage is not working on my mac.

I have been able to use iMessage in over a few weeks.

MacBook Pro with Retina display, iOS 5.1.1

Posted on Jul 30, 2013 8:09 PM

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Posted on Jul 30, 2013 10:17 PM

The problem may be that you need to log out of your iCloud account on your mac then log back in. That would be the first step.

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Aug 1, 2013 5:56 AM in response to Wizeguy21

Logging out of my Macbook Pro deletes all of my calendar and other things....while it's stored in iCloud, I'm leary of doing this. For some reason my desktop iMac works with iMessages (specifically chatting to those with iPhones in SMS/MMS, not iChat) and works on my iPad and from phone to phone, but not from my MBP to any of those devices.

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Aug 1, 2013 6:43 AM in response to lion3533

This solved my problem:

Step 9

According to one anecdotal report, Flash Player may interfere with iMessage, though I don't know how and can't confirm. To test this theory, select from the menu bar


 ▹ System Preferences… ▹ Flash Player Storage

and click

Block all sites from storing information on this computer

Close the preference pane. If this action solves the problem, please post your results.


Restart your computer and you should be good to go!

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Aug 2, 2013 5:45 AM in response to lion3533

As for me, I don't have flash player at all.

BUT, after Removing all website data in Safari preferences and restarting the App, I finally logged into Messages.

So I suggest you to try this if you don't have Flash Player installed in your system.


P.S. Oops. Jumped to conclusions. Still can't login.


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Aug 14, 2013 3:39 PM in response to Craig Symons

 ▹ System Preferences… ▹ Flash Player Storage

and click

Block all sites from storing information on this computer

Close the preference pane. If this action solves the problem, please post your results.


Restart your computer and you should be good to go!



I followed the above and my Imessage started working again!!! Thanks !!!

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