phone number expiring on imessage and facetime?

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phone number expiring on imessage and facetime?

i recently changed providers (o2 to three) and have kept my old number. it’s finally switched back to my old number but my phone continues to say my number is going to expire and the temporary number three gave me is registered to my phone instead? is this something that’s going to sort itself out or do i need to do something?

(i’ve tried everything from restarting my phone several times, taking the sim card out and putting it back in and signing out of my apple account and nothing has worked so far)

Posted on Feb 10, 2022 9:45 AM

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ch44rlies Author

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Feb 10, 2022 10:40 AM in response to ch44rlies

!! FIXED !!

i actually managed to fix the problem with the following method:

sign out of imessage and facetime (settings > message > turn off imessage | settings > facetime > turn off facetime)
take out sim card
turn off phone
insert sim card
turn on phone and make sure number is correct (settings > phone > my number) (in this case i didn’t put +44 just 0)
turn on imessage and facetime (the number i inputted came up under the expired number and i clicked it and BOOM! expiring notice disappeared)

hope this helps anyone who was freaking out like i was !

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ch44rlies Author

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Feb 10, 2022 9:57 AM in response to razmee209

i’ve done that a number of times and unfortunately it doesn’t do anything.

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razmee209

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Feb 10, 2022 9:54 AM in response to ch44rlies

ch44rlies wrote:

i recently changed providers (o2 to three) and have kept my old number. it’s finally switched back to my old number but my phone continues to say my number is going to expire and the temporary number three gave me is registered to my phone instead? is this something that’s going to sort itself out or do i need to do something?

(i’ve tried everything from restarting my phone several times, taking the sim card out and putting it back in and signing out of my apple account and nothing has worked so far)

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/ae4ab56b-573b-43e8-bbc8-d5f9ad5b0253

Sign out and sign back into the imessage and facetime.

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phone number expiring on imessage and facetime?

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