Hey, I upgraded to iOS 5 and my iMessage refuses to activate by number...
It activates if I sign in with my Apple ID, and use my email, but it won't activate by number like I want it to..
Restrictions are off, and iCloud is on.
Anyone having this same problem, or know any solutions?
Thanks.
iPhone 3GS, iOS 5
Well i live in Canada, and this worked for me hopefully it works for you guys aswell.
Click
Settings > General > Reset
Click Reset Network Settings and Reset Location & Privacy
Hope this works for you aswell.
I had the same issue on 2 iphone 5, 1 iphone 4S, ipad 2 and ipad mini...
I tried ALL the fixes available all over the internet.
NOTHING WORKED!!
I figured if i was not the only one, then it surely isn't a local problem, so i might as well wait for a while as probably every ios device owner is upgrading and apple servers must be getting hammered.
after 4 hours, activation failed!!
Tapped imessage and facetime off and on again. they activated both in under 20 seconds.
all is back to normal on all devices.
so just give it some time.
PS. everytime you off/on imess and facetime, you restart the process. Once on, don't off it.
Thanks a ton for this advice. I just got back from an overseas trip where I swapped my SIM for a local one on my Verizon iPhone 5 and iMessage wouldn't work. Simply re-activating iMessage didn't fix it, but once I re-applied "My Info" and re-cycled the iMessage activation and Facetime activation, it started working immediately. THANK YOU!
sometimes it takes 24 hours for it to activate. make sure FaceTime is on as well
iMessage not activating
