iMessage not working on iPad

The exact same problem I am having. I have done everything Apple told me to do plus more on my own, when others have posted here on tips and help. NOTHING!!!!!!! I finally got an iPhone, iMessage works no problem there. My iPad even shows the messages that I have received. But on my iPad I still cannot reply. This is ridiculous. You pay good money for a product that works for ****! And after the IOS 6 update its even worse. I know for a fact its not my internet or wifi problems. Since pretty much everything else connected to wifi or hard wired works with no problems.

Even before the update it only worked when it wanted too. I am just fed up!!!! Least my ticket number hasn't been closed, cuz I will be calling them back and one way or another they are going to fix this!!!!!

I'm having the same issue... Using iOS 6.0.1 & one night I was having a very lengthy iMessage chat & the the next day, nothing! It's been down for me for the last 2days! I hope that they fix this issue soon! It's extremely frustrating!

Putting in my two cents too that my iMessage does not always work on my iPad 2. I sure hope they fix this, cause I don't want to spend $19.99 on a help call. I am not that technical. Just please fix this.

So, imessage started working randomly at 8pm last night & now itstopped working! No idea what changed as I didn't change anything other then open Dropbox!

Apple owes me at least a case of wine and a week at a spa. Not sure if I ever want another apple product. Upgraded to 6.0.1 and all 3 of our devices are now full of issues. My iphone 4s (that I only bought so I could imeesagge my daughter in her ipod I reallty wanted a droid) doesn't work if wi-fi is on. 1/2 the apps won't work. My daughter can't use imessage, face time or post to instagram. I turned off my router security and that didn't help. FIX THIS APPLE!!!!!!! We had no problems prior to the upgrade. My apples are rotten and full of worms! My daughter will be getting a phone in the next 6 months and wondering if I should dump my iphone 4s and get her an android as well. GIVE ME A REASON WHY I SHOULD KEEP APPLE PRODUCTS. I am less than impressed. Oh and I did a restore, have reset refreshed, blah blah blah

We haven't upgraded Ipad 3 or Iphone 4s from 6.0 to 6.01 and 2-Ipad 1s still at 5. We are using Imessage daily with all and have since available. Appears to be upgrade from 6.0 doesn't it? Glad I never got around to it. Guessing new devices came with that IOS though.

Can anyone help me,

I want to use my iMessage on my iPad aswel as my iPhone, but it doesn't seem to work...my apple ID is correct and all that. It goes through to the stage where you check what you can be contacted on via iMessage...then it just goes back to the main menu.

Please help me!!!!

I am having a similar problem. I can send text through iMessage but no photos will go through using wi-fi. I am very upset since I bought iPod touches for all of my grandchildren. They can send me pics but I can't send any to them. I have an iPad 3 and have upgraded the iOS to 6. Any help?

The two things that worked for me were,

On the main set up screen, go to the message tab on the right hand side, open message, then turn off the "show subject field".

Then I changed my DNS address to 8.8.8.8 in the settings and then de-activated and activated iMessages on the iPad once again....and I have had no more problems. I have iPad 3 and running ios6.

Thank you for the info but unfortunately I'm still having the same issue. Text messages are delivered but I can't send a picture.

I had this problem (message not delivered) after upgrading my iPad 3 to iOS 6.1. It went away after I renewed my DHCP lease and turned iMessage off and back on again. I already had the Google DNS servers--I think they're set up on the router itself.

I can't send text messages, have been reading suggestions, have changed DNS to 8.8.8.8, t

Already had subject line off, turned Message on and off again.

Two questions. My "Message" doesn't say "iMessage". Does this mean I have iPad 2? I'm not sure where to check. I'm running iOS 6.1.

Also when I search for my contacts name from the contact list, it come out RED with an exclamation mark. Has anyone else had that problem? What does that mean?

Thank you.

I did not put a "t" after the 8.8.8.8

Typo!

Since upgrading to 6.1 I cannot send or receive messages at work until I send a message to an iPhone that is physically close to me...less than 2 feet away. Once that initial exchange happens I can send and receive from anyone. There have been no changes to my network or firewall. I have tried all of the following

Reset network settings

Forget and rejoin network

Use google dns settings

Hard reboot

Remove and add email addresses and re validate

Turn messages on and off

Nothing except sending or receiving to or from a nearby device works.

Does anyone have any ideas??

Thanks this solution worked a treat for me. Went to mail turned push off. Restarted ipad2 sent a test message but no go :-(. I Left it half an hour before I contemplated throwing it against the wall in desperation. Got a message from daughter in law 45mins later and voila i was able to reply! Thank you thank you thank you