iMessage sending issues on iOS 17

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Wifi assist was also affecting it.

As both MMS and group messaging are carrier functions, call your carrier’s tech support.

My iMessage not activated pls help me with it 

Did that and problem came back a week later

I received a message back from Apple but I know that companies use SMS not imessage. I'm STILL not receiving them and I don't know how to fix it. Yes I can receive phone calls - companies don't usually call me so I don't know about them.

I just want to know how to fix not getting SMS texts from companies

I’ve been having issues with not being able to send iMessages or use any apps (Facebook, messenger, Snapchat, etc) unless I’m connected to wifi. I can’t even listen to Apple Music unless I’m connected to wifi even with my songs all downloaded. It’s been since the newest update.

Do you have a cellular network connection (do you see signal bars)? If you do, is Cellular data turned on (Settings/Cellular)?

Do you have VPN installed on your phone? If you do, go to Settings/General/VPN & Device Management/VPN, tap on the VPN profile, and delete it. Also delete the VPN app.

I just came here to say that I solved my problem, and in case this helps, here you go!

I tried E V E R Y T H I N G. Even got my IT friend involved for HOURS which included contacting Support was useless. Chat, phone, chat, phone, chat, phone. Call kept being dropped. Nightmare. Anyway after yet another google search i saw something about VPN and that got me thinking. I did change something recently in an effort to get my get my wifi printing going again. That involved downloading new drivers (not the issue), AND in trying to follow instructions, i wound up messing with my computer's Proxy, whatever the **** that is. I do think I changed something at the time, and wondered if there would be consequences. As it turns out, yes.

Make sure you don't have any kind of Proxy going, or if you do (since I don't know what I'm talking about), just see if you changed something there. Or mess with it (turn it off or on) to see if that changes anything. You can find it in Settings>Search.

I have my MacBook imessage and handoff going again and I am top of world. I freaking love this feature.

cristiano25 wrote:

Please tell your developers to fix this bug!!!

I don't have any developers, just cats.

But, it all works fine on my iPhone/MBA/iPad so, yes, maybe it is your devices. Unless you tell us what "all the trouble shooting methods" means to you, we won't know what you've actually done.

When I updated to ios 17, I started having problems sending and receiving from Android phones.

I just fixed it!

my SMS in messaging was turned off. I turned MMS off and back on. THEN, I went and discovered “Wifi Assist” had been turned on.

I turned off wifi assist, and now, I can send and receive messages from android phones quickly again.

SMS was turned off and Wifi Assist was turned on by ios17. Try flipping these and see if it helps?

Great, glad you fixed it. SMS to non-iPhones is always on; the switch in Settings/Messages/SMS just chooses whether or not to send messages to iPhones using SMS if iMessage fails. To non-iPhones, it doesn’t do anything. MMS controls whether or not you can send picture messages to non-iPhones.

Sometimes “toggling” a switch will fix something that isn’t working.

Group texts use MMS, not SMS, and MMS requires a cellular network connection; it can’t use Wi-Fi. Thus, Cellular Data must be on all the time to send and receive group messages. Could that be the issue?

I have cellular data on with good signal when I get error messages from group texts or not receiving group texts. Again, I can receive/send messages from/to single Android users during the same time I am getting error messages with group texts. Group texts are the only ones affected, and MMS Messaging has been on this entire time as well.

I had the same problem and followed instructions from the web with no success, i have now fixed it . The way i did it is this , i signed out of Icloud on all my apple products (macbook, iphone and ipad) and chose to retain info , i then signed them all back in. After this i turned imessage and facetime off in settings on my iphone , next i shut down my iphone and restarted it. next i went into settings and turned on facetime and imessage , click send and receive and choose start new messages from your number. and that was it back up and running 👍. This was in spite of me being signed into icloud with the same details on all my products.