iMessage not working on iPad

OKAY, this is likely my last comment! For the last 6 days everything has been perfect. FaceTime and iMessage work on both my iPhone 4 and iPad 2. I have also upgraded to IOS 5. I changed NO DNS numbers. I took my iPad to my sports club and used their wifi connection. FaceTime and iMessage worked immediately. I came home and tried it on my network and Voila, success! All has worked seamlessly since.

The first time I tried another network all was fine until I needed to reboot my iPad, then the same problem occurred. I am hopeful this will continue working. I've not needed to reboot to "test" it out and honestly don't see the need to monkey with it!

going back a page or so I too eventually changed my DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 and it works. No idea why and hope the rest of the upgrade is issue free.

Same thing here; Send button greyed-out unless I attached a photo. I tried the reboot, but no joy.

However, the second I unchecked "Show Subject Field" in Settings under Messages, it worked!

I hope this helps some of you anyway...

I also got it working on all of our iOS devices by taking them to work and using that Wi-Fi network. I did not make any DNS changes. iMessage would not work at all at home, but they all worked on the first try at work and thereafter at home.

Wow it is not working I really hope apple fixs this issue.

I was having this problem as well. I thought I had it licked, but...

(iPhone 4 and iPad 2, FWIW)

Go to settings, wifi, and look for your wifi network - it's the one with a check mark.

Tap on the blue arrow just to the right of your network. This will bring up the network settings.

Tap on DNS, deleting everything, periods and all, and type in "8.8.8.8"

I did this on both my iPhone and iPad, and I restarted both.

Now if I sent a message from iPad to a contact's phone number they both got the message, and replies came to both devices. I was worried that it would show up as a new conversation on my phone, but it didn't, just added to the old one.

It worked for a bit, I messaged people, they messaged back and both devices got the reply. About ten minutes later a friend texted me and I didn't get it on my iPad.

If I send it from my iPad, they get it, and my phone is updated too. If I send it from my phone, they get it, and my iPad is updated. But my iPad never receives anyone's replies.

I haven't EXTENSIVELY tested this, just with a friend's phone and my own, just presenting my experience for the trouble shooters out there. =)

Hope a definite fix comes out soon, though I like the new OS enough this one little rough patch is forgivable. =)

the reason the send button isnt usable is because the person ur contacting probably has updated imessages only works to all devieces with ios5 update

"Go to settings, wifi, and look for your wifi network - it's the one with a check mark.

Tap on the blue arrow just to the right of your network. This will bring up the network settings.

Tap on DNS, deleting everything, periods and all, and type in "8.8.8.8""

This worked for my iPad (without reboot)! Thanks for the tips

New patch still having the same problem. Not good!!!!!!!

And the 8.8.8.8 did not work. Ok apple support what is up?

Did you also open iMessage in settings and turn off "show subject field"? This is what worked for me.

Yes it is off nothing, do not get it..

THank you Blueboy322, turning off Read Receipt & Subject has solved this problem on

My ipod touch. SEND button works everytime on all phone numbers & emails updated to latest software - indicated by blue cloud by name & device address.

This does not mean they have actually started using iMessage yet, but it is ready & waiting for them to find your messages

The red indicator beside contact means they have not downloaded latest Apple/iTunes update. Do not forget to tell them to shutdown all open applications on computer when downloading & installing, this MEANS pausing your security system (firewall, virus checker, etc) for approx 45 minutes otherwise it will just TIMEOUT.

SHould I leave my WiFi DNS set to 8.8.8.8.8.8.4.4.? Or should I change it back? Can anyone remember what previous setting was?

ENjoy (•_•)

For iPad 1 ... watch out for Messages setting "Show Subject Field" "ON" setting. When sending a iMessage, you *must* include a Subject *and* message body before the "Send" button lights up. Set to "OFF" and you will not be forced to include a Subject in the message.

I have had the same issue for a couple of weeks now and just resolved it by accident as follows - seems there is an issue with the way the AppleID deals with the 'mac.com' and 'me.com' formats.

Follow these instructions on your iPhone FIRST before your iPad

1. On your iPhone, in 'Settings' open 'Messages'

2. Scroll down and click on 'Recieve At'

3. Under the 'You can be reached for messages at:' you will see just your phone number listed.

3. Click on 'Use AppleID'

4. You will be asked for your AppleID - type your full AppleID in the OLD APPLE EMAIL FORMAT ie xxxxx@MAC.com

5. Then, on the the next screen when it asks what email address you want to use, type the same AppleID BUT IN THE NEW APPLE EMAIL FORMAT ie xxxxx@ME.com

6. Click OK - when you go back to the 'iMessage' screen, you will see that now under the 'You can be reached for messages at:' you will now see both your phone number and AppleID email listed.

7. Go back to the 'Messages' screen and ensure iMessage is turned on at the top of the screen.

8. Reboot your iPad - and the settings will be picked up automatically

9. iMessage will now work on both your iPhone and iPad

This should work first time, and you will get a confirmation email from Apple shortly afterwards.

Dan