Issues with my Messages post iOS update

In case anyone is wondering or still chasing this. I spent since the update until now talking with Apple and multiple phone carriers that I had switched between to fix the problem.

I’m not sure if anyone noticed or anyone else has this but I also can not use my hotspot and do not have this option anymore.

The end result is that it is an APN issue and because of the way Apple works, unlike android, you can’t just jump into your settings and fix this.

I ended up speaking to some higher up in Apple support, who was incredible by the way, and they are aware of the issue and as of now, the only fix is to backup to the cloud and factory reset your phone.

Because I can’t do this she assured me that if I waited for the next update there would be something in that, that would fix this issue.

Did you check that your receiver has iMessage activated? If your receiver has not activated iMessage on their iPhone, your message won't reach that receiver.

Try signing out and again signing in with your Apple ID.

When you. Facing this issue, there is a possibility that the iMessage server is down. So, you can check the iMessage system status here: Apple - Support - System Status

The last option is to Reset All Settings. This can fix system-related glitches. After performing a reset, you need to sign in with your Apple ID again and set up your network settings.

Has anyone found a solution? I called my phone company nothing’s wrong with my phone. I’ve been trying to text other people that have iMessage and it keeps saying that they all have android which isn’t true and then at one point it let me send an iMessage, but it wasn’t sending this last update is horrible my phone is always freezing I tried everything I reset the network I completely reset my phone. I’ve tried to login and out of my Apple ID. I tried to reset the iMessage and now this morning won’t activate and I can’t FaceTime or anything I feel like this update was so useless

You can turn your automatic updates off bud so you don’t have to deal with the change

My iPhone 14pro has been a nightmare since the ios 17.4.1 update. The keyboard wasn’t working at all. Now it works after troubleshooting and reinstalling keyboards, resetting dictionary etc but it freezes constantly. Typing is very difficult. It freezes and then closes out so you lose whatever you were typing. I have to restart it multiple times a day. I have a ton of available memory and the phone is only a few months old. So regret doing this update. Any tips?

I just have the issue that they changed the + screen in messages to be all jumbled, a bunch of stuff I don’t want appears and can’t be removed, it’s harder to access and pops up in a whole new screen. My next phone will be a flip phone. I am so tired of these “updates” that update things I don’t approve of nor want. I haven’t changed my style of shoes in 10 years but every few months my entire phone changes the way it functions, looks and operates. The biggest issue with this update is the idiots who force their will upon us.

I wish I could help you with your issue but all I can say is get a different type of phone that doesn’t mess with your personal visual space every few months. 💜

I have sort of had the same issue, I got an iPhone 15 Pro Max though. I updated my iOS to 17.4.1 last night and since then I can only send text messages to people I used to talk to via iMessage. I can, however, call them with FaceTime which is kind of odd. I've tried multiple troubleshooting methods but nothing works and it's getting annoying at this point.

This has been a horrible update for iMessage.

1) contact photos for people I text most are gone. And if I reset them in contacts, it’s there for a couple texts thereafter and then sure enough they disappear again.

2) I have close friends who share their location with me. Previously, it showed their location underneath their name and contact photo. Ex: City, State. Again, this is now completely gone in iMessage. I know that it’s specific to iMessage because when I go into to the “find my” app, all their locations are available to view.

It’s been like this for weeks and I check for an update daily in hopes the next update corrects these issues. It’s quite bothersome in its current state.

Yea I have a 13 updated my phone 2 days ago,haven’t been able to figure out the problem some people can’t call me too all started after the update. I’ve tried everything even talked to Apple still nothing

Glad to see I’m not the only one having issues with IOS 17.4.1

I had sent some photos and videos to a friend via iMessage and they claim that they miserably disappeared from their attachments section in our messages, then they appeared again a few days later. Also, I had sent a friend a couple of text messages that were sent but didn’t say “delivered” and their find my friends location wasn’t loading as if their phone was turned off but it wasn’t. They claimed they had their ringer on but no notification for the messages.

Same issue here..updated to 17.4.1 yesterday and iMessage is no longer working (and it won’t allow me to select my phone number to send messages from), personal hotspot has disappeared, and I had to reinstall FaceTime as it seemed to get deleted too.

I completely agree with your entire post. In addition to what you wrote, I have experience needed to completely turn my phone off to constantly reactivate the microphone to do talk to text. When you talk to text, it will not put in the “period” for punctuation, so either all of my sentences are run on, or it contains the word “period“ instead of a “.” It will also randomly capitalize letters that do not need to be . I spend more time manually correcting my talk to text, than just pulling over to manually type it out.

I could not agree more with the forcing of these updates. Especially when they seem like, they are very rushed, updates and do not work out all the bugs. These texting issues are really causing me to consider an android.

Mine has signed me out of iMessage and will not reconnect. I even cleared my network settings.

Same here! funny how they haven’t commented back

my iMessages doesn’t work too