iMessage stuck on verifying my phone number

OK...I've fixed my issue:

Go to: Settings>iMessage> switch off.

Go to: Settings>Facetime> switch off.

I noticed that in: Settings>Phone> that "My number" was unknown (go check yours now)

When I tried to click on the "Unknown" to input the number...it would not allow me to.

Go to: Settings>Airplane mode> Turn off. Wait a moment, then switch back on and go back to: Settings>Phone>

You should be allowed to input your number including country code.

Check to see if "My Number" has been updated.

Go to: Settings>iMessage> switch back on.

Go to: Settings>Facetime> switch back on.

Phone number is verified in both Facetime and iMessage.

Hope it works for you!

🙂

I had the same issue!

I just went into the settings on my iPhone and turned iMessaging off and then on again.

When I turned iMessage back on, my number no longer said that it needed to be verifyed, and everything is working fine now ^_^

I discovered that the problem in my case is that my daughter is using a pay as you go carrier that does not support SMS short codes. It appears that—similar to the Facetime phone number registration—iMessage sends a hidden SMS to a short code to register the phone number. Since that SMS message never gets out, the phone number registration process can never complete. There was a short window when this provider was supporting short codes, and that must have been when we activated it the first time, but alas, no longer. So I'm just leaving iMessage off completely on her phone and sticking with good old SMS.

http://www.speakoutwireless.ca/speak/phone-features/imessage-and-ios-5/

I had this problem too. Mine was solved by turning off WiFi and turning on my "data roaming" under Settings>Cellular>Roaming>Data Roaming.

I am from U.S. but currently in Sweden. It seemed to reset after that.

Hope this helps someone.

After sometime spent I found an answer to the problem in a iPhone 4, simply turn date and time to set automatically and the try to verify your imessage.It sounds really dumb but it worked and there was no need to restoration

Thx to jayeecordero...

To change the defult phone number in iMessage, you need to:

1. Insert the new sim.
2. Go to Settings > Messages>Turn off iMessage.
3. Go to General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.
4. Once the iPhone is open.
5. Go to Settings > Messages>Turn ON iMessage.
6. This will recognize the new sim and have it verified.

Worked for me 🙂

Stopped working after 45 mins, wifi or not. This trick below works to get it to verify, but I basically have to do this every half hour in order for the phone to send iMessages. Also, after 30-45 mins, the phone will start resending my sent iMessages as text messages. Very annoying for me and who I am messaging.

- Turn off iMessage

- Turn off FaceTime

- Airplane mode, turn it ON

- Settings -> General -> Rest -> Rest Network settings

- wait for the phone to come back to life

- Turn On iMessage (and it will verify in seconds)

- Turn On FaceTime (and it will verify in seconds)

Well, the following worked for me

Turn off iMessage

Leave settings app

Close settings app

Restart settings app

Turn on iMessage

Check number ok

Took just a few moments and it worked :-)

Only one thing that doesn't work is adding an email with xxx@yyy.name :(

Hey i was having the same problem. After resetting all my settings i was stuck, until i went to my imessage settings. Then i had selected "Use apple iD for imessage" and signed out. After that the only adress i could be reached at was my phone number. Let me know if this resolved your problem.

Try # 2 onwards.

To change the defult phone number in iMessage, you need to:

1. Insert the new sim.
2. Go to Settings > Messages>Turn off iMessage.
3. Go to General > Reset > Reset Network Settings.
4. Once the iPhone is open.
5. Go to Settings > Messages>Turn ON iMessage.
6. This will recognize the new sim and have it verified.

I hope this helps. I just did it like 5 mins. ago

I'm having the exact same issue. In my Message preferences it says "Verifying" next to my phone number for about a day, and then it changes to "Error". I've tried doing a full restore on the phone, and I've reset network settings as the instructions above say.

I've spoken to Apple and Verizon on the phone. First, apple told me to call Verizon and have them re-provision MMS and SMS on my account. They tried doing that to no avail. They then put Apple on the line who offered to exchange my phone for another.

It seems strange that there would be something so particularly wrong with my phone that it would cause this minute problem when everything else on the phone works fine and so many others are having the same problem.

Any thoughts?

problem.

I just downloaded the beta version for mac iMessage. I change my sim cards often as I travel frequently. Didn't realise that this needed to be re varified every time. It worked for iMessage and Face time. Thanks for the help.

OK I STRUGGLED WITH THIS FOR A LONG TIME AND FIGURED OUT MY PROBLEM

If you startd your account with a non iPhone apple prodect you have to REGESTER IT IN YOUR SUPPORT PROFILE! That is whhat will activate the phones iMessgae ad FaceTime. MAKE SURE YOU DO THIS IF YOUR ACCOUNT WASNT REGESTERED WITH AN IPHONE!

When i first started using imessage, it was connected using my phone number. By mistake, i checked the imessage option off and when i turned it back on it does not verify my number. I can only use an e-mail address. i have reseted the network settings and iphone but it is still the same. i've tried all available solutions but nothing works.

Having same issue as this, iMessages worked perfectly from the time I got the phone (i4S) turned iMessages off (don't know why) but ever since it won't verify my phone number. My email verifies but phone conitnually says verifying and then eventually says "verification unsuccessful".

Have tried:

- turning iMessages on/off

- resetting network settings (multiple times with iMessages on and then off)

- checked my phone number in Settings -> Phone (it's correct)

- changed my own phone number in contacts to include +61 country code.

- set time automatically (already set on this, I was sceptical anyway)

- hard reset

Don't really want to restore the phone. Just annoying that it WAS working then stopped...

Any more news on this front???