Anyone familiar with what this
message means?
“iMessage and FaceTime number has expired . Remove and reinsert the sim to keep using number ..... for iMessage and FaceTime.”
Its a permanent message in notifications and appears and settings message.
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I just had this exact notification that would not go away and I tried absolutely everything, but this is what worked for me!
Go to Settings --> Messages --> Send & Receive
You should see the same notification about the phone number expiring in the "Send & Receive" tab again, but this time with a red "Remove From iMessage and Facetime" button underneath. Press this button.
Now under Send & Receive you should see your phone number still there, but without the checkmark next to it that indicated that it is active.
Simply press on your phone number and it will activate it again with both iMessage and Facetime again. You should see that small checkmark next to it again.
This is what took the notification away for me, no messages or anything were lost in the process by pressing remove.
iPhone 6s IOS 14.6. The above worked for me thanyou. Whilst I had not changed numbers or carriers, a few weeks ago I was trying to fix an issue with a friends phone and had swapped sims with his briefly ( his was a different carrier).
Sometime thereafter I got the subject message but removing my sim and reinstalling it did not fix the issue. This fix by Itsciaran did!
Hello, thanks for the reply. The weird thing is the issue just appear recently in the past week. Anyway what IOS version installed on your phone? For mine it is IOS 14.3.
I’m on 14.3 as well but the issue started in early Nov when I was on an earlier version of IOS 14
seems like problem appears in some cases after phone number migration between carriers. as workaround try to deactivate and then activate both imessages and facetime
Try removing your number from iMessage and your apple id and then add it to apple id again by verifying the code send to your number. Afterwards reactivate iMessage. Worked for me!
Same for me as well and I’m on 14.3.
All functions of the phone still work ok for me, it’s just annoying to see that message in notifications.
Strangely not many results found on the net about this issue.
Please check if SIM card registration is required in your country. My problem solved after fixing my SIM card registration issue.
Yes, I have the same issue. I’m in another country. I tried using another sim. It got rejected ( I guess it’s locked). I re- inserted the old ATT sim and I get that message again.
This worked for me too!
Thank you! Those exact steps fixed my problem. We'd tried pretty much those steps in a different order before with no luck so big relief this worked! 👍
iMessage and FaceTime number has expired
