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iMessage "not delivered"

Ever since the February 16th release of the Mac beta Messages, I and everyone I know who uses iMessage (10+ people) are getting the error "Not Delivered" after each sent text or MMS. The texts are actually being received despite the error.


I've searched all the online communities, forums and message boards and the only posts I've found seem to have been individual user issues that are a few weeks/months old. (Yes, I've tried changing the DNS settings to 8.8.8.8 but the problem still occurs on wifi and 3G).


Yes, I realize that as long as it does indeed work and thus shouldn’t be complaining, but I find it annoying and cannot understand why it is happening.


Is Apple aware of this? Are they working on a solution? Are the servers just overloaded because of the new Mac users? What's the deal?


Anybody know?


Thanks

iPhone 4, iOS 4.3.3, iMessage Not Delivered

Posted on Feb 23, 2012 10:56 AM

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Feb 23, 2012 7:17 PM in response to junitoprmodel

Except a good deal of the time, they're not delivered it turns out. Or only delivered to the person's phone and not their iPad or their mac...


USUALLY - if I get it to say "Delivered", then it changes to "Not Delivered", then it probably went through...


I know this is beta software, and I love the functionality, but the fact that it worked, now doesn't is frustrating...

Feb 26, 2012 2:23 AM in response to junitoprmodel

I've solved the issue from iMessage app for Mac.


1. Go to Preferences


on your left in Accounts list you will see your iMessage account in following format:


xxxxx@xxxxx.com

iMessage (inactive)


You have to change it from Inactive to Active, I did it by doing the following:


1. Click on your iMessage account in Accounts list

2. Click on "Account Details" button on your right side.

3. Selected my country from the list

4. Click "Done"


and "Inactive" status that was next to iMessage sign disappeared,

after doing this i've tried messaging my friends from iMessage app, as well as iMessage from

iPhone and it didn't show me "Not Delivered" message anymore.


I hope this will help.


Thank you.

Feb 26, 2012 11:19 AM in response to ZELIM

Thanks for trying, but the Mac Messages app is incidental and isn't the issue.


The "Not Delivered" error is happening across the board, including to people who are using only an iDevice and no Mac. The problem arose upon the release of the Mac Messages beta app, and the sudden influx of users seems to have either overloaded the Apple servers or created some sort of glitch. That's the only reason I mentioned the Mac version.


Thanks for sharing though, I'm sure your solution will help some who are experiencing what you were.

Apr 12, 2012 6:17 AM in response to junitoprmodel

I had this problem on my iMessage account also. I have 3 MAC's at home my wife and I both have and iPhone and iPad as all the devices even if they are set up with differant accounts showed the "not delivered" error but the recieving side was getting the message ok. The fix for me was like stated above to either disable the MAC OSX iMessage account or uninstall completely. and instantly the errors stopped on all devices.

iMessage "not delivered"

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