When you send an iMessage it works instantly, however iMessage is suddenly not available on a device the iPhone will try to send that iMessage for around 6 minutes before eventually sending a text message. This is a ridiculous situation where now instead of getting instant messages you can potentially be waiting for over 10 minutes to send a standard text instead of an iMessage. Is anybody else getting this problem?
Yes, I'm seeing it right now. Not sure if Apple's iMessage servers are having problems, but there needs to be a better alternative that waiting 10 minutes.
Yes, I'm seeing it right now. Not sure if Apple's iMessage servers are having problems, but there needs to be a better alternative that waiting 10 minutes.
yes.i encountered the same problem as you.what's worse is that my iMessage is activated and it still send it as text messages(green bubble).Well,there's no issues from my network nor wifi...i did all the necessary troubleshooting methods..restart..reset..restore..etc..sighhhhhhhhhh....
I have noticed this as well, but the problem has been there since the upgrade. Also tried troubleshooting, adding more ids to the imessage settings.. still the same..
At this rate not sure if imessage is really a BBM alternative.
For the moment and till they sort out the issues, might need to stick with Whatsapp or something like that...
Just out of curiosity anyone found a fix/cause for this problem?
I restarted my phone, and mine started working properly. Phone was showing full signal and 3G prior to AND after reboot, but it seems like it was having data connection issues beyond iMessage. Now, it's working fine. Not a very revealing solution, but it worked for me.
Hello,
Thanks for the reply.. tried the restart as well several times, but unfortunately no luck..
The problem is that there is not indication of when the messages to get stuck.. so you don't find out till minutes later of a failure and by that time the conversatoin has carried on, in an abstract way, with both parties not knowing what the other is talking about.. :-)
I've got several friends to test this on their iPhones on different networks and the problem is the same so it's not a network fault. It's iMessage taking too long to decide to send a text when an iMessage is no longer available on the recipients device. The more I use it the I've noticed the times can vary from 4 minutes to 15 minutes to send the text. If this is happening both ways in a conversation between two iMessage enabled devices then what is normally a 2 minute text conversation can now become a 30 minute exchange.
I'm having the same problem! VERY frustrating to send a txt, then see it sitting there, "sending", for 10 minutes. All the while you're just thinking, "GDDAMNIT, just FAIL already so I can send as a TEXT!!!!!" Really. This needs to be fixed. ASAP. I HATE THIS FEATURE NOW
I thought imessage only sent other imessages to ios.
iv'e noticed when i send a message to another ios system
imessage shows up in the text message panel.
if you try and send a text message to a non ios
phone it just says text message.
The only cure I have found is once you have sent the message and it hangs (doesn't displayed delivered), of you touch and hold on the message if gives you two options copy and send as text message. Select send as text message and it sends it instantly, not a perfect cure but for now but it does work.
Hope this helps :)
Hi,
Another thing I have found is if you IMessage is hanging even for a few seconds double click the bubble and you will option to “send a text”
I hope this helps.
Thanks
I have this same problem on my iPhone 4, but iMessage works flawlessly on my iPad 2. Even if I have my phone and iPad in the same room on the same wifi, iMessages come in and go out much faster on the iPad. Sometimes messages will arrive two or three minutes earlier on my iPad. So its not just a sending issue. This is so frustrating! I don't understand why iMessage works so well on the iPad and not the phone even when theyre on on the same wifi. Ugh!
I turned data off on my phone, and it fixed the problem. Not an entirely effective solution, but of you're on wifi it'll definitely appear as though you've fixed the problem.
Hi guys
What does help is clearing your emails
And If u have an exchange account; sync emails
To 1 day...
Archive messages on other mail accounts
You can also try deleting all email accounts and see if iMessage improves
It helped on my end
Thanks
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Something I noticed just now and that is imessage is working a lot faster. Dare I say almost as fast as BBM (Blackberry Messenger)
Not sure to the reason but there are two possibilities:
1) My icloud and mobile me emails were different on my phone, so I set up the icloud to be the same as mobile me userid
2) The second thing was that I just updated my ios to 5.01 on the phone.
Since I didn't try imessage after piont 1, I am not sure which one fixed it.
Would be interested in knowing if anyone else has seen performance improvements on imessage after updateing to 5.01.
Thanks
I updated to 5.0.1 last night & I can confirm that the issue is still here. I'm confused what the problem is. I sent an iMessage to one friend, and that has yet to notify me it's been delivered, yet i sent another iMessage to another friend and that's already been replied to. I'm guessing the problem is iMessage taking too long to decide the iMessage isn't going to go through and sending a text message instead? I don't know.... But apple needs to do something about this because I'm tempted to turn iMessage off as regular SMS is much, much faster. 😟
iMessage too slow sending text when it can't connect to iMessage
