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My messages app started crashing about an hour ago, I can't send or receive messages. When I load the app it shows me a black screen. Every once in a while I will receive all of the messages sent to me in the past ten minutes or so but I can't read them on the app. I can't send messages through the pictures app either.
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iPhone 13, iOS 16
Message app and Message settings frozen since last update I’m on 17.5.1 with a iPhone 12. Relying on WhatsApp instead for most things it’s far more reliable. Come on Apple sort it out! It’s not hard, messaging was one of the first things invented on mobile phones! Are you doing this on purpose??
Me too. Started today. And last weekend GPS stopped properly working while in Chicago. This is a pain. Messages to my Apple Watch come in just fine but not to my iPhone 13.
I’ve rebooted the several times. I’ve made sure I’m on the most current version of iOS.
Feels like my phone has been hacked, till I found this feed.
i had this same issue where messages would freeze and I couldn’t change the settings at all…
I ended up fixing the issue by disabling iMessage and FaceTime (I was able to access settings randomly), restarting my phone, and then re-enabling iMessage and FaceTime with my mobile number. I suspect there was an issue between apple and T-Mobile that caused the issues on my end…
The messages app has been working for me ever since :)
Hello Jovontae! Only thing that worked for me was to do a proper back up to my laptop (MacBook), factory, reset the device, and set up from back up. Not only did it clear the issue, it seemed to fix other little issues that have been going on with my device. Hope that helps.
Had this same problem last week. I was so prepared to do a full backup and reset / restore, but thought I would try to sign off from iCloud instead. (Settings --> [Your Name] --> Scroll to bottom & sign out).
That process took ages. In fact I think it got stuck, but I made sure to give it a reasonable amount of time to "do stuff". 1-2 hours. Eventually I just force shutdown the phone, and upon restart I signed off again but it was instantaneous that time.
After sign off from iCloud, all the problems went away (Messages, Phone worked again).
Now signed back on to iCloud and so far no problems. Only annoyance is having to setup all my payment cards again.
I read somewhere that it's an issue caused by iCloud syncing which Apple knows about.
Apparently if you turn off iCloud it works.
You wonder whether the hundreds of executives working at Apple have the same issue and just allow it to take weeks to fix, if Jobsy was around it would have been fixed in 24hrs!
my messages on my iphone are still crashing and i don't know when i'm gonna get it fixed cause the software update messed it up and i can't remove the ios 18.0 software update cause its still having that issue
so please help fix the messages app its kicking me out of the application and yeah its glitching and having problems
Same here too ! It’s stuck with a draft that crash and force quit app/ hard reset of iPhone juste not working ….
Did this work for you?
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Hello Diana, just block an hour of your time, do a proper backup of your phone to your laptop, and factory reset it. This was the only way to fix mine. And it cleared other issues as well.
Not that I saw…it seems Apple is not fixing.
were you able to fix the issue? how?
For me, yes... you may refer to my post above (logging out iCloud).
I have factory reset my phone twice and it fixes the problem for a few weeks. Now frozen again….v annoying
My messages are frozen
How do I fix my message app on my iPhone?
