Change telephone number in iMessage

FWIW, I needed to do the same thing in the FaceTime settings.

Chik, thank you.
i didn't even know to change FaceTime settings. while i didn't notice the old number under facetime, I turned both imessage and facetime off, restarted phone, and turned them both back on again. re-input my apple id password, and now both seem to be working fine. Facetime shows the phone number to use as my new number. I message still only shows email, but people i send messages to are confirming its coming through under my number, and not only from my apple id.

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I changed my network, and my mobile number recently. Had the old number in my iMessage preferences. All I needed to do, was turn iMessage off. Restart phone. Turn iMessage on.

No resetting or restoring. "

This worked for me too 🙂

For me is not working, I changed my mobile number with the same carrier and the imessage shows the previous number (shadow gray) and not the new one, I'd try in many ways with no success.

Please help me out!

This just worked for me. Thanks.

You're welcome 😎

I've had a similar issue to all you guys... but my old number was with a different carrier. These methods worked for me (I used the “reset network settings” option).

I'm getting the suspicion that iMessages identifies with some ID on the sim card... and when people change their number with the same carrier they generally keep their old sim, so these methods don't work properly as iMessages & Facetime think it's the same account / number.

Although technically not a bug, it appears as though these apple systems make assumptions that don't always pay off.

I did the same, Turned off iMessage as well as FaceTime, from settings menu. Turned Iphone off, restarted and then turned on both imessage and facetime. It sorted out the problem.

Finally found this discussion. I tried a lot and this finally worked! Until now, I could not get the phone to forget the old phone number. Thanks!

None of the mentioned suggestions work for me. I tried resetting network settings, resetting all settings, change in DNS server, date/time setting but still nothing. It works for Apple ID but does not work on my phone no. It just keeps on showing my previous no in grey and veryfying. HELP! SOS! 😟

Me too, my fried. I've been trying all the above mentioned methods for a week now...and nothing...

I'm on a iPhone 4S, with a Brazilian TIM sim card, by the way.

Pimas, I'm having the same problem with a Brazilian TIM sim card. If you solve the problem, please let me know how.

😕 Anyone has other suggestion? Tried all different combination, still doesn't work.

If I were to do a factory restore and set it up as a new phone, my phone number isn't listed at all (setting > messages > receive at). Only email address is listed.

My phone number works fine though. Phone call, text messages, internet, all works fine.

Thanks for that but it didn't work for me. If you think of Anything else Please let us know driving me crazy:):)

This didn't work at all.