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Change telephone number in iMessage

My partner bought an iPhone in Friday asked for her old number to be transferred over to her new sim. She had to wait until today for that to happen so started using the ewes number while she waited.

She reqistered with iTunes etc. Now her number has changed iMessage does not recognise her number as an iphone. When she sends me a message it comes through as an iMessage but from her number that has been cancelled. When I send her a message it sends as a standard text message. The phone number listed in her settings is greyed out, how can it be changed?

Thanks.

iPhone 4, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 17, 2011 7:55 AM

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Chik

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Posted on Nov 14, 2011 11:48 AM

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.

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Aug 12, 2014 4:31 PM in response to Superjim

I have an iphone 5 that I used with AT&T in the states. I moved to Uruguay a few weeks ago and had no problems using imessage until I bought a SIM card from a local carrier and inserted it. My iMessage number changed to the new Uruguayan number but when I put my AT&T SIM back in I can't change the number associated with iMessage. I've tried everything on these forums but even when I successfully log in, it says "waiting for activation" and in the Send & Receive > you can be reached by iMessage at pane it shows my email address ticked and the Uruguayan number in a lighter shade and unticked. I'm using my AT&T SIM and I have international service.

Ideas?

Nov 5, 2014 7:08 AM in response to Tattoo_rolgirl

Thanks - this solved the problem for me! (Obvious once you've thought of it!)

makazoid

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Jan 19, 2015 5:15 PM in response to nishanthrao

Hey, Nishanth!

Did you find the solution to this yet? My problem is exactly the same as yours. Please let me know if you've found something that works. I'm going crazy here!

Chris CA

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Jan 19, 2015 5:47 PM in response to makazoid

makazoid wrote:

Hey, Nishanth!

Did you find the solution to this yet?

nishanthro posted almost 3 years ago.

Yes, the problem has been fixed.

Settings > Messages - iMessage to Off then back on.

Chris CA

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Jan 19, 2015 11:28 PM in response to selenafromshenzhen

selenafromshenzhen wrote:

I think she need to link here phone number to Apple ID

No.

And you responded to a 4.5 year old post.

Jul 29, 2015 7:57 AM in response to TA786

Thank you very much. It worked for me

MI2084

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Aug 17, 2015 5:16 PM in response to Serena87

Well it worked !

1. Settings -> 2. Phone -> 3. My number

va3093

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Nov 14, 2015 1:36 AM in response to Chik

Turbing imessage and restarting the phone and turning it back on helped me.

encef

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Jan 19, 2016 5:58 PM in response to jayeecordero

wow, thanks for the help!

Nov 21, 2016 7:33 AM in response to Zebbsean

Just updating the Settings>Phone worked for me.

Swapzz

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Nov 28, 2016 10:37 AM in response to Swapzz

*Settings->Phone

Jan 14, 2017 7:54 AM in response to something2sea

My I message my old phone number had been there I want to set up new phone n

May 27, 2017 12:27 PM in response to Vinfredlim

I think it's amazing that this is still an issue after so many years. Just look at when this thread was started and I am having this issue just now and can see others still run into it as well.

Jun 7, 2017 12:42 PM in response to The Huntress

This worked for me first time, thanks 🙂

Ghade

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Jun 15, 2017 1:35 PM in response to Superjim

I can't change my phone n

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