imessage activation

i woke up this morning and started to reply to messages i had received. though i realized they were sending as texts instead of imessages. i went to my settings and my phone number is there (not grayed out) but every time i turn it on and off it says that activation was unsuccessful and just has my email selected for imessage. i’ve restarted my phone and done what google has information on. i’m lost at this point. i’ve never had this happen to me with the time ive had my iphone for the past couple years and it was fine last night. any help would be appreciated thank you!

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Posted on Oct 1, 2020 9:25 AM

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Posted on Oct 1, 2020 11:17 AM

ohdumb wrote:

i woke up this morning and started to reply to messages i had received. though i realized they were sending as texts instead of imessages. i went to my settings and my phone number is there (not grayed out) but every time i turn it on and off it says that activation was unsuccessful and just has my email selected for imessage. i’ve restarted my phone and done what google has information on. i’m lost at this point. i’ve never had this happen to me with the time ive had my iphone for the past couple years and it was fine last night. any help would be appreciated thank you!

Follow all steps here If you get an error when trying to activate iMessage or FaceTime - Apple Support

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Oct 1, 2020 11:17 AM in response to ohdumb

ohdumb wrote:

i woke up this morning and started to reply to messages i had received. though i realized they were sending as texts instead of imessages. i went to my settings and my phone number is there (not grayed out) but every time i turn it on and off it says that activation was unsuccessful and just has my email selected for imessage. i’ve restarted my phone and done what google has information on. i’m lost at this point. i’ve never had this happen to me with the time ive had my iphone for the past couple years and it was fine last night. any help would be appreciated thank you!

Follow all steps here If you get an error when trying to activate iMessage or FaceTime - Apple Support

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