iMessage sent from email address rather than phone number...

I've been having the same problem and it IS iMessage. The whole changing the "receive at" to my actual number thing didnt work for me or turning iMessage on and off along with the power of my phone. WHAT DID WORK: SIGNING OUT OF APPLE ID UNDER THE RECEIVE AT. You do not need to be logged in to have iMessage work. So I just left it signed out and all my friends aren't freaking out about seeing my email anymore.

Hope this works for all of you too.

When you signout of Apple ID, then the message is sent as MMS and not imessage. For this you will be charged. I tried it and doesnt work as imessage. You have to be logged in to us the imessage service.

I got the same problem, when I am signed in it has my email adress selected and phone number is greyed out and it says verifying yet when I log out even with rebooting phone and everything I can turn iMessage on and below it it says waiting for activation and won't come off it only way I can get it to work is by signing in through email..

Anyone knows how to fix this?

I have exactly the same problem! Tried all the above and tested with a friend, still showing my email (Apple Id).

Moreover, i tested with imessage to an iphone 4 that had imessageoff at that time, and although it was sent by me as imessage and not text message, he didnt receive anyhting, nor it changed to text messsage!

Why is that?

my iphone not showing any number in messages settings. only showing my apple id. i tried to log out apple id, but still no phone number showed in "receive at". And the imessage keep "waiting for activation". I can send imessage using e-mail, but not phone #. I tried everything, turn on/off imessages, restoring firmware, nothing worked. my phone shows me the correct number in settings > phone > my number. and caller id set to on. but imessage still not showing my number.

anyone knows why?

I called Apple Support. They told me it must have something to do with having 4 consecutive 0's in my phone number and that I would have to wait until the next update came out and they would try to have it fixed. They said it was some kind of command issue. I just downloaded the new update and no fix yet.

None of the tips left here helped me. I had to turn off my cellular data for a few minutes then turned it back on and then turned iMessages back on and it took a few minutes to activate but has worked fine since

i just had the problem and i was freaking out because my friend didn't even realize it was me thru the email....what i did was i turned the imessage then turn the phone off turn it back on turn the i message then go to RECIEVE AT> then click on the USE YOUR APPLE ID > then sign off of that one it will automatically put it back on your original phone number. I did not sign back on to the USE YOUR APPLE ID since im in not out of country and its not a ipod or ipad. i dont know it works for me now...

I had the same issue as everyone has said. Not sure why it started but we did:

Remove email address, turned off imessage, went out of the settings options, went back into imessage and re-entered the apple id account information. The key seems to be that you have to have: "receive at - 2 addresses" assuming you want to send imessages via email addresses and telephone numbers

Kim.

I am having all the same issues. People with iphones were recieving my text but I could not receive theirs. I logged out of my apple ID under general-setting-msgs. shut off phone, went back into settings-general-msgs, it showed only my phone # under the received at title, I logged back into apple ID. Then it showed both my phone # and email address. My iMessage worked. Then I logged out of my apple ID and my iMessage still worked. So is this problem intermittent? How will I know if someone responded to me when I don't know if the msgs are getting through to me.

So what's the deal with this?

Is ANYONE from apple going to fix this problem? It is quite ridiculous. I can't believe such a smart product has such a dumb problem.

And at times it will send as a blue iMessage and then turn green very shortly after and say it was delivered with by text. Does anyone know why that would happen?

Would it have anything to do with the person who I am sending the imessage to? Or is it all a problem on my end?

I had the same problem in Japan.

I use US Unlocked iphone there.

I just could fix my problem and I like to share what I did. ( Sorry I'm not a English speaker so, my English is not so good.)

I reset the networking setting. ( go to General<Reset< Reset Network Setting)

Then I reset my router. ( turned off and on)

Back to General<Network<Celler Data Network ( set the APN)

Next, General< Network< Wi-Fi (choose your wifi setting and change DNS and put 8.8.8.8, instead of original one)

Then go back to Facetime and iMessage setting and turn them on.

As soon as I did those steps, my iphone worked.

P.S

Somepople says, set Automaticall time is on ,too.

I hope it helps.

I did all the suggested in this post, and what worked was the prefix - changing the +xx to 0, and making sure that you have your received caller id is the phone number.

mind you it also worked with turning imessage on and off and a phone on and off to activate the imessage again - if that made sense.

Hope this helps - Thanks for the suggestions everyone.

Signing out of my Apple ID, then turning off iMessage and back on fixed the problem! Thanks guys! The techs at Apple were no help at all. It was the first they had heard of it... Apparently they dont pay attention to their discussions... WTH

Same issue, same resolution. Turned off imessage and logged out. Rebooted phone and logged back in and then receive/send info in imessage had my number instead of my email address listed (which I could not edit).