All of a sudden I can’t send text messages to some of my contacts.

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Dlw61250 Author

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All of a sudden I can’t send text messages to some of my contacts.

I have an appple iPhone and a iPad both will not send text messages to certain contacts. Some contacts are fine.

iPhone 13, iOS 16

Posted on Aug 16, 2023 9:28 AM

Answer 1

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IdrisSeabright

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Aug 16, 2023 11:23 AM in response to Dlw61250

Try this. Sign out of iMessage on all of your devices. Sign back in on your iPhone. Once iMessage has been activated on your iPhone, sign back in on your other devices. Once all of the devices are active on iMessage, go back to your iPhone and re-enable Text Message Forwarding.

Answer 2

Aug 16, 2023 9:48 AM in response to Dlw61250

What type of messages are you having trouble with? SMS (green)? Or iMessages (blue)? Are you having trouble on only one device? Or both? What kind of error messages are you seeing? What do they say?

If the problem is that you can't send SMS messages from your iPad, it most likely means that Text Message Forwarding got turned off. On your iPhone, go to Settings>Messages>Text Message Forwarding and re-enable your iPad.