Messages frozen and crashes on iOS 17.5.1

I have not experienced this issue. 17.6 update is coming any day now. Hopefully it resolves this

Going on for a month. Apple broke this. Apple needs to fix it. It’s all their native apps. All these BS fixes posted here are not working, it’s apples job to remedy this. Another feature that did t work is airdrop. Anyone else experience that too? Come on apple, when is your fix going to be released!?!

Having the same issue (on my iPhone 14 pro). iMessage, Facetime, and the phone app all open to a blank screen and then crash. I can't even use other apps sometimes. I have had to force restart my iPhone about 15 times since yesterday because if I don't, my phone freezes, and gets stuck, and does not work. After force restarting it, it maybe works for an hour or two then stops again. My settings app works only until I click on something, and then it stops working. Apple told me to put my phone into recovery mode and select update on a computer, but I am not risking losing anything. I couldn't even call 911 if I had to. This has got to be fixed.

It worked for me for two weeks once I disabled forwarding messages to my iPad. Then it just died when I was using CarPlay. I disabled car play, unpaired Apple Watch and nothing works.

Finally I installed release candidate for iOS 17.6 and the problem is gone and the phone appears to be running faster. Will report again if there are any issues.

Hehe, that would work, too, but which model iPhone? No ones saying with authority that it’s a 17.5.1 issue only or not.

Are you saying that getting a brand new phone didn't help?

My solution was to delete the eSIM, which was a secondary number I had from a different telco. Problem solved. Of course I want to have that secondary number on the one iPhone. So I am trying again, got another eSIM for the secondary number from the same secondary telco, activated it, now waiting for telco to port my previous number over. When I did this the first time, it was fine for the first few days. I also went and added other eSIMs purely for data (in two separate countries), and that was fine.

Perhaps it has to do with organizing my iMessages across the two numbers. Both are associated with my appleID.

My issue was so bad I had to buy a whole new phone although I have a good phone. I got no help.

This has been happening to my iphone 14 pro max and my wife’s iphone 15 pro max.

to fix mine, i had to remove my physical sim and use it on an old iphone 6 just so i could send and receive sms messages. This fixed my 14’s messages app. so i have 2 phones for now while this problem persists. Yesterday i tried the “turn off stolen device protection “ and returned my physical sim. So far so good.

however, my wife has an esim so she can’t just switch out the sim temporarily. She also turned off stolen device protection which fixed her Messages problem yesterday. She woke up this morning however and the Messages problem is back.

frustrating.

This is stil happening to me after trying all the tricks listed. I even completely reset my iPhone. It has been a hassle. This is also affecting my business as I rely on text messages. It’s surprising that there is no fix as of yet from Apple. I heard they abandoned an iOS 17.5.2 update.

Think of it like your IP address. You don't want it to drop you with every network hiccup so they built in a 4 hour delay to the IDS registration system. It's a well-known vulnerability within the infrastructure that registrations can be faulty, but it's really difficult for Apple to a) detect and b) reset individual devices. Like I said, it's a shared layer between messages AND FaceTime AND HomeKit.

Over and out

Nothing has changed, I fail to understand that basis of IDS registration if all that changed was the update that apple released. 4 hours logged out...why 4 hours? We live in a cloud backed world were things update in seconds or mins. This doesnt make sense to me or even sounds relevant...its equivalent to turning it off and on again. Thank you, next.

Tell me how many devices do you have, watch? phone? pad? mac? And you are 100% sure that you logged out of all of them. And you waited the full 4 hours with everything logged out? That's the only way for the IDS registration system to release your account. It would be very strange for you to get two corrupted sessions in a row, but it is possible. Try it again.

Lasted all of 2 mins before freezing again.

Tried this and the other fixes mentioned here. Nothing works, however i did restart again and remove all apps from standby state, restarted again and its working, no idea how long it will last.