Change telephone number in iMessage

Tried everything here , thanks guys!!!

Below method worked for me:

Change your number in Settings->General to your number you want to be using now

Go to iMessages,enable/disable iMessages

Will ask you to sign in to your apple id( if not logout with your Apple ID and then login again manually)

Should do it!!!

PS*: After changing your number the updates ( ur new number appearing) may require 2-3 days to reflect in you iMessages pane. So have a little patience

HTH

I have been trying to change the number for my iMessage and FaceTime but it's not working. The number that is showing is for my old sim now I want to change to my Airtel number but it's not working. I have been rebooting my phone all day

What's amazing is that people post to the thread without reading it first. The solution is on the first page of the thread. If people would just spend 10 seconds reading they would have the answer, and wouldn't have to post and wait for someone to repeat the solution.

VBAuto wrote:

Hello All,

Yes it is 2017 July, and problem still persist some people.

Yes, 6 years later, and virtually everyone who posted to this thread found an easy solution to the problem. Yes, yours would work, but there were much easier ways. As posted by other users.

I came here just to write this:

Nothing, absolutely no suggestions worked for me.

But one thing fixed it!

I live in Portugal,

It seems my SIM was blocked for some type of operations, like the one needed to activate iMessage. I imagine it’s something like Roaming, I don’t know.

I called the operator and she told me just that.

She also said that if I “charge” the SIM with extra cash on an ATM, I would have plafond to enable

iMessage.

I did that, a some time hours after I found iMessage activated.

Didn’t work right away (I thought it didn’t work)

That one was hard to figure out!

I hope it helps someone :-)

Have you tried going into settings>phone>my number and checking the correct number is there & editing if not.

This just worked for me. Thanks.

You're welcome 😎

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!

This also helped me

The key is to change your phone number in Settings > Phone. If it is correct then try to change twice. First to any phone number and then to correct phone number.

I think she need to link here phone number to Apple ID: iOS and OS X: Link your phone number and Apple ID for use with FaceTime and iMessage - Apple Support

I just tried it. Doesnt work...:(

I've just tried it and it worked for me. I'm on Tesco Mobile (UK)

I travel a lot so this is not a good solution because resetting network setting erases all the wifi passwords I have stored... Simply not realistic.