iMessage not delivering messages ios 6

or you can also go to contacts-->groups-->uncheck facebook from your contacts and then you get the prompt for which number/email you are trying to send to while keeping facebook contacts on.

Facebook is definitely not my issue -- mine seems to be integration with Messages on OS X.

Here's my thread on it:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4321357

Your post has helped so far but when i switched imessage off and then on again it says under the button waiting for activation... what am I supposed to do next? Thanks

Try this: (my solution)

On the iPad > Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > UNtick the phone number and only use email.*

On the iPhone > Settings > Messages > Send & Receive > Tick all.*

When people text your mobile number you will receive only on your phone. To continue a conversation on your iPad through iMessage it will simply start a new conversation (from your email) on the other persons device.

Hope this helps, works for my situation.

*Note: May need to turn the devices off and on or iMessage off and on for it to register the change.

Sorry Garry, that last post was in response to drguitarum2005.

It's probably worth double checking those settings on each iPhone anyway, if you haven't done so already.

All the best

all

i resolved this issue on my iPhone by resending an iMessage which had failed to get through, as a text by pressing the failed message untill the option to "send as text" came up. this then seemed to clear the system, and it all works fine now. i had to do this with all my contacts who have previously used iMessage. i have sucessfully iMessaged friends on iOS5 and iOS6 now.

hope that helps

This is unfair and they're paying those beta testers and yet they could not foreseen something like this?!? Having trouble with iMessages involving non-iphone users while iphone users aren't any problem - yet. I just turned off iMessage then reboot then went back to turn iMessage back on and it NOW is saying "Waiting for activation" What the HECK is that?? I truly miss Steve Jobs....

GUYS? That posting of T-Raw's? It actually works... weird and annoying, yet it works. My fuming barometer now is getting cooler....

Thanks. Hope this plm doesn't return!

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Still broken. Started magically working again last night. Got home today and tried and broken again. This is clearly an Apple issue that they need to get on ASAP. As the updates come out I get less and less impressed by Apple. In two years when my contract is up I see an android in my future.

Mines still waiting for activation still for days, what the heck is going on Apple? 😟

I've got 2 iphones....a 4 and a 4S....both upgraded to ios 6....it was a challenge to upgrade on my 4, but it was a breeze on the 4S....anyways, my 4 is working fine....imessage works....but my 4S is "waiting for activation"....Come On Maaaaan!!!

The inability to send iMessages is 100% due to Facebook integration. Until the problem is sorted just go to Settings/Facebook select your account name and DELETE it. Choosing the option NOT to save integrated contacts.

Maybe facebook integration fixed YOUR problem, but I still have serious Messages problems sending to AND receiving from another iPhone, and I don't even have facebook on my phone, much have been logged into it!

I had this problem. I tried turning iMessage off and on, several reboots, and turning facebook off. What seemed to work for me was removing the email address I had registered for iMessage... and then later adding it back. Now everything is delivering immediately without failure.

I'm having the same exact issue with the facebook integration.

When I go to txt message someone that has an iphone, and the contacts app is turned off for allowing it to access facebook, then it switches to an imessage and delivers perfectly fine. If the person has 2 mobile number, the contact info screen comes up to select which number.

When the contacts app does have access to facebook, under the facebook settings, the txt message to the same person will never turn blue. The unified info screen doesn't come up, and the address that it's suddenly trying to send the text msg to is the facebook email which it never delivers.

It seems to me that the facebook integration is taking default over the icloud imformation. If one of my friends has their mobile number on facebook, everything works fine for them. If their mobile number is NOT on facebook, it's almost like the facebook privacy settings integrate into the contact info, and suddenly everything defaults to their facebook email instead, even if their icloud info has the phone number.

I've pulled my hair out trying to figure this out and so far nothing has worked.

I started another thread here yesterday before I found this thread:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4318036?start=15&tstart=0

Personally I think it's the facebook privacy settings that come WITH the facebook integration, I might be wrong but that's the only logical thing i can come up with.