Q: Messages no longer will send or receive
Up until a few days, I could send/receive messages in Messages, just as I can do on my phone.
That spontaneously stopped happening. Starting a couple days ago, messages I send/receive with my phone no longer appear in Messages. Also, I can't send/receive from Messages at all.
No settings changed, nothing logged out. It just doesn't work anymore.
Any ideas?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11.1)
Posted on Mar 14, 2016 4:46 PM
Hi all,
Thanks for your suggestions. I tried all those and nothing worked. Then I called Apple Tech Support, and that guy wasn't able to get it to work either. The only alternative, I'm told, is to take it to the genius bar, and perhaps swap out either the computer or the phone.
Having Messages work properly isn't worth that hassle. Up until 6 months ago, I never had texts appearing on my computer and I can go back to that rather than spend a few days working out an alternative.
This same thing has happened with other Apple technologies that try to merge different things, in this case SMS and iMessages. For example, MobileMe (predecessor to iCloud) used to be hopelessly inconsistent in syncing, but now iCloud works a lot better. I expect in a future version of Mac OS, that they'll get Messages working well too.
Thanks anyway!
Posted on Mar 15, 2016 2:00 PM
