unknown error occurring with iMessage on Mac
After upgrading to Monterey, I keep getting "an unknown error occurred" when I try to log into iMessage.
iMac 21.5″, macOS 10.15
genius! worked like a charm..thanks!
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i found a fix for it. I tried LITERALLY EVERYTHING and it wouldnt work. I was getting the "an unknown error has occured" only on iMessage even though i was signed into iCloud.
1.) sign out of your user account
2.) create a brand new user (as if your wife or child etc was creating a seperate profile on the computer)
3.) sign in with iCloud, and with iMessage in the new profile and it should work
4.) next, sign out of that new profile you created
5.) go back and sign into your original profile on the computer and try signing in.
And iMessage works for me now on the original computer profile (user)
That was what worked for me. An apple rep suggested that to me after i tried 4000 other things to try and fix it.
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Thanks so much for this ! This didn’t happen to me due to an update . Just happened in thin air & you helped me fix my issue.
Coming back to the forums after fixing it yourself is admirable. A lot of people don't do that.
This fixed it for me. Thank you so much !!!!!
Yes, that worked for me as well. Much less complicated. Thanks!
What have you tried so far?
Wow. That took 3 seconds and fixed my problem. Thank you!
pnford, you have to log out, sign into another account (switch user), then log in to iMessages from the other account. Once that’s done then you log back into your original account and then sign in which should work. If you don’t have a second user you can use to log in then you have to create one.
No, what I was saying, is that all I had to do was log out of my user account and then log back in and then go to messages and I was able to login without the error. I did not have to create or sign in to another user account to get it to work
Before you go through the "new account creation" and "reinstallation" processes, try restarting. That worked for me. I'm running Monterey 12.4.
unknown error occurring with iMessage on Mac