seventhjuly

Q: How to Make iMessage work on MacBook?

Hi guys - I can't make my iMessage work on my MacBook Pro - It says that my iMessage account isn't registered AND that "The server found a wrong registration. Please try again later."

It keeps saying that so I don't know what to do. My iMessage works on my iPhone, so I know that my account works.

 

Any help? Please :-)

MacBook Pro, OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.1)

Posted on Feb 19, 2013 1:13 AM

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  • by delizondo21,

    delizondo21 delizondo21 Oct 6, 2013 6:26 AM in response to seventhjuly
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    Oct 6, 2013 6:26 AM in response to seventhjuly

    Hello-

    I was experiencing very similar problem with my messaging. I checked the time zone that my MacBook was set to it was in correct so I corrected it and now they are in sync.

  • by st3v1e,

    st3v1e st3v1e Nov 4, 2013 8:54 PM in response to seventhjuly
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    Nov 4, 2013 8:54 PM in response to seventhjuly

    I know this is a pretty stupid question, but does the recipient of the iMessage need to be online for a message to send?

     

    I had this working a few weeks ago, but now I've re-located, it's stopped sending.

    I've checked the accoount settings, re-set my password, signed out and back in again, but still it's not sending a message - except to myself! That works fine - that's why I'm asking if the recipient needs to have iMessage running - though i thought it would send an SMS to an iPhone too??

     

    Baffled!

  • by Smilinger,

    Smilinger Smilinger Nov 5, 2013 4:05 PM in response to st3v1e
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    Nov 5, 2013 4:05 PM in response to st3v1e

    st3v1e:

     

    As far as I understand, the recipent does not need to be online, but the messages are not stored forever, so he has to come online at some point (before Apple deletes it - I have no idea how long that is). Your message should be marked as sent even though the recipient is offline, but you won't get a "delivered" status (or "read" obviously) until the person is online again.

     

    You should be able to hold your finger for a second or two on a message and select "Send as text" (it may say something different, my iOS is not in English) to send a normal SMS text message. But if both of you has iMessage, it shouldn't be a problem. I don't think this necessary to say, but iMessage ONLY works for people with iOS devices. BOTH of you has to have an iOS device. If your friend does not have an iOS device anymore, you won't be able to send iMessage messages to him.

  • by misharasulov98,

    misharasulov98 misharasulov98 May 22, 2014 6:09 AM in response to seventhjuly
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    May 22, 2014 6:09 AM in response to seventhjuly

    I cant access to my iMassage it says "YOU ARE CURRENTLY RESTRICTED FROM USING IMASSAGE" why? what's happening?

  • by Ralph Johns (UK),

    Ralph Johns (UK) Ralph Johns (UK) May 22, 2014 12:46 PM in response to misharasulov98
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    May 22, 2014 12:46 PM in response to misharasulov98

    Hi,

     

    Parental Controls on the Mac User account you are logged in with.

     

     

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  • by Sichuan,

    Sichuan Sichuan Jul 29, 2014 11:21 PM in response to delizondo21
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    Jul 29, 2014 11:21 PM in response to delizondo21

    Hello,

    this was baffling me as well.  I went in and reset all my time and date settings to "automatic" and voila!  It works.  Go figure.  Thank you for posting this.

  • by Rhawkeye,

    Rhawkeye Rhawkeye Nov 16, 2015 6:51 PM in response to sig
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    Nov 16, 2015 6:51 PM in response to sig

    Simple, but this works, Thank you

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