iMessage not delivering messages ios 6

I don't think it's ios6. I have been having the same problem for the past week and a half. It;s Imessage

I've been having some serious iMessage issues today having updated to iOS 6 last night. My fiance and I have always had iMessage issues but now its even worse. I've been messaging her all day to her PHONE NUMBER (still blue iMessages) and she didn't get a single one. My end never said there was a problem. She's also been messaging me to my PHONE NUMBER and nothing came through to me. Now she's getting all her messages on her iPad even though both are set to receive at both phone and email, and caller ID is set to phone number. It seems to me that no one should EVER have to "message my email address" and when someone normally messages my phone number (like the rest of the world on other phones do) it should show up on my wifi-only iPad AND my iPhone. Is it that hard Apple? You seem to not be able to figure out the most simple things...

Had same issue on iPhone 4S running iOS 5.1 only a couple times. Updated to iOS 6 yesterday and now can't send any messages at all via iMessage. Messages say "Not delivered" in iOS 6; tried to resend message but still failed. Somehow issue doesn't seem to happen to new iPad on iOS 6.

What's going on Apple?

I'm having the same problem. I've missed 3 very important Messages (iMessage, not SMS) on my iPhone, yet when I arrived home, they were waiting for me on my iPad. This is incredibly problematic and could result in business loss.

I'm having the same problem.

Sometimes the message arrive when I swipe to wake the phone on; sometimes they don't.

Never do they make an alert noise when they arrive.

This is really irritating.

I've upgraded to iOS6 last night and continued to iMessage all evening. Following day no iMessage.. Is it the intergration of Facebook and the email mixup in the contacts?

Im having the same problem here... Upgraded to ios6 and now its all ****... It says it couldnt deliver my texts and i checked it again this morning and apparently it sent some of my imessagges as green normal text, messing everything up even worse...

I had the same problem. My friend didn't receive any messages from me yesterday (we both have 4S and iOS6). She send me a message today and I received it, but it was in a new conversation (sent from her email, not phone number, though she just continued our previous phone-2-phone conversation).

Now I have 2 chats with her and have no idea, why and how this happened.

I've inspected a few iPhones with the same problem and found, how it can be fixed. It seems, that after updating to iOS6 the iMessage settings were randomly reseted. In some cases the phone number wasn't ticked in "send & receive" option, then you should turn off the iMessage service and turn it on again. If it doesn't help, and the phone option stays unticked, than you should try to add and remove your email from this option.

I hope this will help.

I have been very frustrated all day! I have an iPhone 4 and upgraded to iOS6 like a fool! I cannot send any SMS messages to non iPhone users. It just says Not Delivered. I have tried it 10 times. I switched WiFi on and off, network data on and off and even restarted my phone AND powercycled the phone... the messages just will not go through!

I had no problems before the update to iOS6. If anyone figures something out please post it here!

I'm not sure if this is the cause, but I've noticed that if I go to contacts on my phone (not imessage) select a contact scroll down and select 'send message' I can then make a further selction, i.e iphone number, email etc.

When doing this messages are delivered.

When I use the imessage app, and + a contact for the message I want to compose, I get no option to select iphone, email etc. It just puts the contact name in the address field (and when this is normally an imessage (blue) it's actually green (not recognised as imessage registered). When I send a message it says delivered but the recipient never gets it.

I think what's actually happening here (I'm most likely wrong) when you use the imessage app is that it's not selecting the correct addresses, it might be (no way of proving this) be trying to send the message to a facebook email address?

I'm hoping this a a quick fix bug in iMessenger.

Thanks! The turning off the iMessage and back on resolved the issue of my messages not being sent/delivered!!

Found iMessage set to OFF by default?!? It was ON before upgrading to iOS 6. Anyway, turned it back on and it's working again. Why is iMessage set to OFF be default anyway???

Thanks for the help everybody.

i'm having the same issue....messages go to other devices! and not the phone... it will go to the ipad or MAC before my iphone....

The problem is facebook integration. Same issue, tried sending message/email, etc to GF. She didn't get them. It was trying to send it to her facebook mail that is now default. As mentioned before, you can't select which number/email to send to. A few solutions: Facebook defaulted everyones visible email to their facebook mail ddress on their timeline back in June. You can change which email is visible on your timeline, and that will then filter down to your contacts in ios6 for your friends on facebook. If they change their email back to their regular email on facebook, when you email them it will now go to their regular email (for all those who can't find those fantom messages-look in your facebook email). Other solution is to go to settings-->facebook-->allow these apps to use your account-->turn contacts to off. Then when you go to send a message/email, it will be the old standard of asking which phone/email to send to(contacts that have more than 1)

for more info on the facebook email default isssue, see link--http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/20/facebook-email-contact-sync/ Message was edited by: rhayes10