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

Finally I think, I hope I found a solution that worked for my thanks so much! Any time I'd turn off either FaceTime or iMessage my only solution was to restore my phone to factory. I hope this solution will 'hold up'

I'm having the same problem 😟

For me there is simply no such choice "phone number" at all - there is just "My email" and "Add another e-mail" as options.

But if I sign out and then sign in again there is a question "What would u like to use?" (or smth like that) when authorisation is done and two options: "My phone number" (which is gray but marked as selected) and "e-mail" (which is not gray and i can either select it or not). But the phone number just won't appear anyway. (If I unmark also an e-mail adress there isn't any choices except "Add new e-mail" in the end at all)

I've tried several solutions described here and still no luck.

Ofc iMessage itself works, but all my friends recieve my e-mail in a title instead of phone number. That's annoying =\

What worked for me was to go into PHONE > MY NUMBER > and retyping my phone number with only the area code and phone number (there was a + 1 before).

After that I turned on and off iMessage and Facetime and turned them on and they "activated" soon after.

UPD:
Everything is working fine now. It's just me being impatient ;-)

Here's what I've done:
First of all I took this into a consideration:

"Give it a second! It's going to SPACE! Can you give it a second to get back from space?" (c)

Ofc it wasn't "a second", instead I had to wait for about 3 hours but now it's working fine with both appleID and phone number.

Just be patient)

I have an iphone 5 and updated it this morning. My iMessages were coming from my email instead of my phone #. I went to settings - messages & under send & receive i deleted my email and now they show coming from my phone again & still blue. 🙂

HI All....I m from India.....tried all sorts of stuffs.....still i can c only my email address....before it was not even activated....yesterday i upgraded my i5 to 6.1.....signed in to imessage......it gave me 2 clicks on phone number and email....next.....it got activated but only in email ....i cant c my phone number.....called up Vodafone India....they said its issue from Apple....called up Apple ....they said it Known issue of vodafone in India....i dunno wat to do.....please help !!!!

Well I have no idea what the **** Apple was thinking in the recent updates, as I never had a problem with selecting the source of the imessages. There was a choice and it wasn't this 'fixed' problem with email addresses.

Apple why are you not allow the user the use their Apple ID where they want to rather than globally for every application? I hope this is fixed soon.

In addition it would be nice to (according to similar experiences) that we have a way of knowing if our contacts are in imessage mode BEFORE a text is sent. It is unfortunate that this great system has such a shortfall of being useful and/or possible cost effective after the fact.

Hi

Question maybe you know the answer , i want to get my imessages is my email so i can use 2 phones , i do have send recipt set to both my icloud and my me address but i dont get messages there , what to do master of apple forums 🙂

I go to Phone and try to change my number and it doesn't let me. I noticed when it says it's trying to activate iMessage that the phone number has a country code. Howerever Apples ID website doesn't have an option to add one and under the Phone setting there isn't one either. I think this is the problem, but I can't seem to work around it.

iMessage is including the country code, but can't verify the number because every where else the phone number is listed, it doesn't have the country code.

Hey,

I have an iohone5 and w wry things worked fine until today! Iv just got bk from a holiday abroad so turned off my cellular data etc and didn't use my phone at all, and now I'm bk I can't send photo iMessages!!!!

I can send SMS iMessages and receive photos and SMS iMessages fine but I just can't send them?!?

Iv tried everything on here and it's still not working! My friend said earlier that sms were being sent from my email but that's fixed now! Just not the photo message situation!

Help... This is so frustrating!!!!

i have solved this issue by restoring to ios 6.1.3 to my iphone 4s.

i tried every steps on this forum and google. then i found a way to activate imessage and facetime with following steps.

step 1: backup your device to itunes.

step 2: fresh restore your device with latest firmware.

step 3: while activating your device do not sign with your apple id-skip it.

step 4: let it activate your phone number first. start using iphone.

step 5: imessage and facetime will activate to your phone number.

step 6: restore you backup and you will see your phone number and apple id activated to imessage and facetime.

hope this will solve your problem.🙂

I have an iPhone 5, and recently lost my iMessage so I went to apple store and they set up a new apple ID for it and it all works fine however it's sending as my email address not my mobile number. I've tried everything all troubleshooting that has been posted on here and just won't let me select my number. in my receive at it has my email ticked and my number above it but it's grey shaded and I can't select it to give it a tick. I've signed out of my apple Id also thinking it would fall back onto my mobile number but it didn't all it did was cancel my iMessage and wouldn't let me use it. I don't know what to do and my iMessage setting stays on waiting for activation, been on that for days. I don't know what to do just want my iMessage back to my phone number not this silly email

SOMEONE PLEASE HELP ME

Same issue with the iMessage bs, it started friday afternoon(central time). I thought no one was texting me but my ipad was getting tons of iMessages.

Awesome enough, removing the +1 from my phone number in settings worked and I am back in iMessage conversations on my phone now. Thanks!

I think I have figuered out something interesting.

Within Apple devices (iPads, iPodTouches, iMacs, iPhones, MacBooks, etc) you can use an email address to be reached at for (or recognized from):

- iMessage

- FaceTime

The latest iOS and OS have these functionalities.

These email addresses are normally your Apple ID, which you use for purchasing apps etc.

So if you have more than one device, you can end up with the same Apple ID addressing these devices, so you get one iMessage on all your devices, for instance.

However, you can 'manage' your Apple ID and add more alternative addresses there and use these (individually) per device you own.

You can normally make up a line of aliases (email adresses) at your provider.

So, For my iMac I have made an alias email address like this:

imac.<myname>@<myprovider>.com

And I have linked this within iMessage and FaceTime on my iMac as the ONLY connected email address.

This makes my device unique with an email address.

And now I can address this iMac individually trying to FaceTime it or send an iMessage to it.

You can follow this procedure for all your devices.

P.S. If you cannot build aliases at you provider, you can also use your gmail address for your first device and your hotmail address for the second device, etc.

However, you must be able to verify these addresses within your email account, as soon as you have linked them to iMessage or FaceTime.

So, make sure your Apple devices are linked uniquely to an email address in order to avoid multiple messages on all you devices.

if you go under settings and then go into imessage you have the ability to turn it off. Turn it off, then turn it back on, it will give you the option to use your phone number and your email address when you go back into the app, uncheck the email address. That should work.

Settings>iMessage>Turn off iMessage>Turn back on iMessage>Go to iMessage app>Uncheck use email address>Send message