iMessage stuck on verifying my phone number

Have tried absolutely every variation of remedies for this particular problem and nothing has fixed it. 2 restores, a visit to an Apple "Genius", and he told me its most probably an update pushed through by my carrier (Telstra, Aust.) no way to roll back these settings. So next step, call my carrier.

Ok. My iPhone has gremlins in it. Just went into settings and thought "I'll just try it one more time..." flicked iMessages ON and both phone number and email were verified almost instantly!

Don't know what was the issue but all is good now. :)

I had the same issue on my wife's phone. It would lock and freeze too.

Finally tried this

At phone screen where it would say phone number unknown. Eject sim. Wait. Insert sim. I would find cell data.

It actually crash out of setting. So I reopen and verified it all was there and working.

Another option people can try if other solutions doesn't work.

I had the same problem, stuck on verifying for a few weeks, found this thread and now it works..

Turned iMessage off.

Exited the settings app completely

Restarted the phone

Turned iMessage on again

Didn't touch anything for the 5 seconds it took to verify the phone number.

Dude, this worked!!! I have spent over 6 hours on the phone with an apple iOS Sr. advisor and he told me that apple has no idea why this is happening and he couldn't tell me when it will be fixed. Apparently Apple can't / wont use a debug to fix issues. My only problem now is that once I connected to WIFI, the iPhone 4 re-sent my messages as test messages. I turned off send as SMS when iMessage is unavalable, but atleast I can send iMessages again. I will wait to hear from Apple...thanks man!

I had the same issue. After resetting it multiple times (mainly turning the IMessage on and off a ton and only hitting 'Reset Networks' 3 times), it reactivated. It took about 30 minutes for me to fix but I’m glad to have it back. Apparently people would send me messages (from 2 different people on different providers) and it would say 'Delivered' on their phone even though I never received it. Not sure if it was an error with my carrier or the IPhone but by reading this, it seems to be an IPhone issue and also common. Although I love my IPhone, i wish i wouldn’t have to jump through hoops like this for it to work properly (I only owned it for 4 months and never had a major issue like this before).

pleeeeeeeeeeeeease someone help!!! have tried EVERYTHING and nothing works!

imessage only working through email (no option to even list a phone number) did everything possible and apple even replaced the phone. in the end i bought a new sim card from a completely different network provider. my number is now listed but greyed out and wont verify. im am losing the will to live at this stage and am inches away from smashing the phone with a hammer!!!!! any advice or ideas would be extremely grateful!!!

Well I have tried everything on here numerous times and nothing worked. BUT I have stumbled across another solution that finally worked for me!!

Turn off iMessages if not already. Turn on iMessages and DO NOT hit use apple ID. It will eventually sign in using your ph no and it solves everything. Hope this helps some.

I am having a similar problem, except it varifies it and then afterwards says error and makes it unable for me to click on it, i have tried resetting it, getting a new sim card turning off and on imessage, but nothing works i dont know what to do it has been like this fo a month or so now what do i do?

It worked for me with jayeecordero on top. Thanks! Tried many suggestion, finally this one worked. I switch from Indosat to Telkomsel provider of Indonesia. And I also noticed that my problem of 3G sign (though I am sure I'm in the coverage) didn't kick in after leaving wifi hotspot is now gone. Previously with Indosat network, I must manually switch off and on the 3G toggle in Setting >General>Network every time. Otherwise 3G won't kick in. Now that problem doesn't happen with Telkomsel network. I'm on iPhone 4S IOS 5.1.1.

Hi, I just thought I would add to this. I had the same problem- first iMessage, FaceTime & Push Notifications would not work at all. Then I installed SAM (though jailbreaking & installing cydia) & followed the above steps on this site http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile/fix-imessage-facetime-push-notifications-on- hacktivated-iphone-4-3gs/
After, it was successful, although in iMessage & FaceTime settings, my phone number was stuck on 'verifying'. Tried switching both iMessage & FaceTime on & off several times, and reset network settings, but would not fix my problem. So then I decided it might have been something to do with a setting within the SAM application. The thing that fixed my problem altogether, was by simply selecting 'auto-detect' in the 'method' part of SAM. So I would strongly suggest selecting auto-detect not manual or any of the others under the method setting if your phone is still not working.

Hope this helps a few people! 🙂

I'll just throw this suggestion out there, Apple says your iPhone needs to be connected to a cellular network, this fixed the problem for me because at the time my phone had run out of credit.

I feel like Apple are really tripping up lately, with terrible iPhone 5, iOS6, Maps and now this over complex iMessage.

There's no way this is going to be a success if it's this complex to set up.

Steve Jobs promised us, "It just works"........

I tried everything everyone else was posting with no effect. I stumbled across yours and BOOM fixed. I had been on a plane playing Candy Crushand had shut my auto date and time off to get extra lives... karma. LOL

THANKS!

Im having the same problem:(

Worked for me, thanks!