iMessage not working on iPad

If you have a conversation already started on an iPhone, and the addressee is a phone number, go to your iPad and start a new conversation to that same phone number. After that, the future of the conversation will show on both devices. This has been true for 2 conversations for me so far, so iPad can indeed send a message to a phone number.

Hi all,

I have been following this for a number of days. I have tried the reseting the devices (iPad and iPod), changing the DNS and reverifying the apple id several times with no success. To be honest I cannot see why changing the DNS to the google 8.8.8.8 would have any impact at all especially if your wifi works and you have a connection. Is anyone able to provde an explaination of why it would work?

Go to settings->mailcontactscalendars->scroll down to contacts-> verify "my info" is identified in your contacts list as your phone. Mne was set to another contact that also stored my email address. As soon as I changed that it worked beautifully, with messages showing up on my iPad and iPhone simultaneously.

A possible reason that chaging the DSN server settings to Google's public DNS servers could be if iMessage is having trouble resolving to Apple's iMessage servers with your current DNS settings. I.e. not resolving to them at all, or timing out...

This is just a guess as I'm not a networking expert...

Your contacts need do have country code so apple can recognize that device as eligible for receiving messages. On your iPhone, set up your message acc to receive on your number and your apple ID

Then, on your contact list, update your phones to having this format (my example is for brazil, where I live, but it differs for wherever you live): +55 (21) xxxx-xxxx

Then, when you select that person on your contact list, as he replies, it'll go to both devices.

Cheers ppl

I went to setting > messages and turned the iMessage off. Turned it back on and viola. Didnt need to reboot and it worked.

thanks!!! It workes for me!!

iMessage is installed but I cannot get it work. Is there a guide somewhere?

And it didn't install on my iPhone.

This did the trick for meboth on ipad 2 and on ipod touch

thanks

THanks, it works now on my ipad

Ok I am conceding defeat. I have tried everything mentioned here. Nothing works. Nothing. I want to go back to ios4 as it worked. I can not see turning things of and on or using the google dns, all things I have done, would make a difference. none have. Messages does not work. Nothing I have done will make it work. Apple needs to fix it or redraw it from the market. I know of no other product that would've allowed to go to market with such total ability. Microsoft must be losing this, they would never do this.

I tried all these setting "changes" also still did not work. Then went back to simple things to try, and don't know why it worked but, in settings, iMessage, turned off show subject field. Everything works, and I love it.

Hi there

Just wanted to say thanks to everyone who has posted, have got iPhone 4 and iPad 2 and could get iMessage working on iPhone 4 but not on iPad 2. Tried everything, I.e. switching on/off, rebooting, re-syncing and nothing worked!! However changing DNS to 8.8.8.8 in wifi settings has done the trick and it is now working perfectly!!! Absolutely love it!!!!

Yep same for me too :-)

Same problem here!