Settings > Phone > My Number > Unknown

hey there.. i had the same issue.. and turns out it was sim Fault not a bug in iOS... make sure you have enough credit in your sim Card for that to work.. means 1$ .. 1- Restart iPhone 2- Settings -> Messages -> Turn iMessage On 3- wait 3-5 minutes .. depends on your internet conenction and load on Apple servers// 4- your number would automatically be in Phone

Hi Julio!

On my iPhone 5 I had the same problem. I trued to turn off-on the Caller ID, Reseting hard and soft, but none of theses solved my problem. Then I went to the Contacts and clicked on my potrait, then added my phone number. That solved my problem, and maybe that will yours.

Long shot, but you could try resetting network settings: Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network Settings. (This will also remove passwords for all previously joined wifi networks.)

I would restore the phone with iTunes and see if it fixes it.

Hey guys I had the same problem and there is such a simple fix to it.

1. Turn on Airplane Mode - You will notice that you can not access your phone settings while airplane mode is on.

2. Turn off Airplane Mode and Immediately go to your phone settings and click on the unknown number tab and you will be able to manually enter your number. After this you should also get a message from imessage saying that you might be charged some amout or something like that. Say okay and you are all set to go. Hopefully this helps for regular messaging also, my regualr messaging was already working only imessage was going through my email and not as my no. Enjoy!!!

Thats does not worked for me on iPhone 5 iOS 6, somebody told me to put he sim pn another iPhone where could change the number in sertings and then put on the actually iPhone you uses... But not sure for now, still waiting for the sim cards adapters...

After switching from ATT to T-Mobile I had the same problem. I was told it has to do with the number being ported and that it would take at least 24 hours. Then I tried all kinds of remedies like turning iMessage on and off, resetting network settings and so on. Nothing worked and as a result MMS did not work. Today I simply took the SIM card out while the phone was on and about 15 seconds later put it back in. The number immediately showed and all is fine now.

Hey people this is what greatlt helped me.
" As far as the number being shown "UNKNOWN" was there, i pulled out my sim card for about 20 seconds and then put it in again. It promptly showed my number in the settings>phone>my number.
NOW activating imessage and facetime was quite frustrating, it kept on saying to wait and showing error some times. What i did was made a call from my iphone to someone and then clicked on Facetime. It said ' Activating " on the Call screen. Then facetime was there working. I want to Settings>Messages,,,it also activated my iMessages. Now both are working smoothly. I hope it may help you if you encounter any problem regarding it. 🙂 😉
Stay blessed.!!!

Hey people this is what greatlt helped me.

" As far as the number being shown "UNKNOWN" was there, i pulled out my sim card for about 20 seconds and then put it in again. It promptly showed my number in the settings>phone>my number.

NOW activating imessage and facetime was quite frustrating, it kept on saying to wait and showing error some times. What i did was made a call from my iphone to someone and then clicked on Facetime. It said ' Activating " on the Call screen. Then facetime was there working. I want to Settings>Messages,,,it also activated my iMessages. Now both are working smoothly. I hope it may help you if you encounter any problem regarding it. 🙂😉

Stay blessed.!!!

Hey people this is what greatlt helped me.

" As far as the number being shown "UNKNOWN" was there, i pulled out my sim card for about 20 seconds and then put it in again. It promptly showed my number in the settings>phone>my number.

NOW activating imessage and facetime was quite frustrating, it kept on saying to wait and showing error some times. What i did was made a call from my iphone to someone and then clicked on Facetime. It said ' Activating " on the Call screen. Then facetime was there working. I want to Settings>Messages,,,it also activated my iMessages. Now both are working smoothly. I hope it may help you if you encounter any problem regarding it. 🙂😉

Stay blessed.!!!

neither of the above worked for me...:(

i did the same thing, but nothing changed 😟 and this drives me crazy. what can i do now? any other idea?

Hi in settings number unknown just type in your mobile number

and make sure the correct network is on the iPhone.

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Come on! This is the point, it's locked. We can not change it.