iPhone 4 facetime not working

All good here too. After resetting the network connections and a couple of tries to activate (and a power off or two), I'm now good to go. First time working since ard Jul/Aug.

Not deterred me from eyeing up the iPad Air & 5S. Just my bank account holding me back!

Well, well, hurray! FaceTime is working again and I didn't have to do a network reset.

Bravo, Apple, at last. But I don't like the secrecy.

Fantastic, thanks to the support community. Updated iphone and all working!

I just completed the update to iOS 7.0.3 on my iPhone 4 GSM, and I'm waiting for FaceTime to complete the activation process.

It's been about 30 min. and it's still showing "waiting for activaton..." how long should/could this process take?

I'm anxious to test FaceTime.

Thanks,

Bill

I just updated my iphone 4 to 7.0.3 as well and didn't get facetime to activate the first few times I tried (I switched it on and off a few times but it still said "waiting for activation").

I turned the phone on and off and tried again, it didn't work immediately but suddenly activated on its own. I didn't change or reset any network settings.

I had to turn my phone off for about 15 minutes. Then I turned it back on and re-set my WIFI password. After that, I activated my Facetime and iMessages and everything worked perfectly.

The first time I tried to activate Facetime before I restarted my phone and it didn't work, so just start over by turning your phone off for a few minutes and then turn it back on. Don't try to activate Facetime until after you have restarted your phone.

FaceTime activation took about 45 minutes.

I was able to successfully place a FaceTime call to my wife's iPhone -- the first successful FT call since the end of August !!!

My thanks to everyone in the Apple Support Community Forum, and to Apple for finally providing a solution to this problem.

Bill

After clearing enough space i pulled the trigger for an update as well. After rebooting, both FT and iMsg activated and FT works again - first time since around July for me!

FT still randomly fails on my iphone 4,4s or ipad mini. Shame on Apple for this issue and its ugly iOS7😠

Yes, there's the nub of it; a Hobson's choice between the labor of restoring my iP4 piece by piece to keep iOS6 (which I like), and the easy update and FT fix route leaving me with iOS7 (which I do not like).

I upgraded to 7.0.3. Changed my password and now FaceTime works. It hasn't worked for my iphone 4 for a year until this recent update

Hi, Thanks to everyone's replies.

My iPhone4 Facetime is now working again.😁

I updated to IOS 7.0.3

Then I had to go into manage my account https://appleid.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/MyAppleId.woa/wa/directToSignIn remove my iPhone number from daytime and put it into mobile and save it.

I then reset my network settings.

http://support.bell.ca/Mobility/Smartphones_and_mobile_internet/Apple_iPhone_4_B lack_8GB.how_to_reset_the_network_settings_on_my_apple

I then did a hard boot of my iPhone.

http://www.wikihow.com/Hard-Reset-an-iPhone

I then reconnected to my WiFi.

Then wait 5mins approx.

I then checked in settings that Messages had iMessages on and that Facetime was on too.

Bingo

Under setting go to facetime check that only your number is checked, if you have any other Iphones or Ipads do the same, but make sure your number is only checked on your phone, if you see it checked anywhere else delete it or uncheck it, also make sure your e mail address is only on your phone. Its seems if your ID's are on any other devise the FaceTime doesn't know were to go . Turn off your Icloud setting for now, You need to delete your contacts that you facetime to and reinstall them under contacts, some how there is a conflick between ICloud contacts and your phone contacts when it updates your phone. I could not use facetime for a month, went back and forth with Apple until one of their senion tech's gave me this info, my phones facetime now.

Finally after 3 months, the problem is resolved with this new update.

Updated to 7.0.3 yesterday. Its another unnerving story that update failed in b/w for some reason, thankfully the automatic backup done before the update made sure i didnt lose anything, except for the extra time.

iMessage and Facetime did not register util I reset the 'Network Settings' . After reset the activation happened in a jiffy and now Facetime works well .

3 months ordeal comes to an end. However leaving a harsh experience where Apple did not even recognize this problem either during this period or later in the released patch !!

Hi guys.

I guess I came across the root of this FaceTime connection lost problem.

When setting up FaceTime/iMessage on a new device for the first time, apple is signing a certificate for this device.

These certificates were valid for exactly 3 years, which meant FaceTime stopped working due to expired certificates for the first users on 24/06/13, exactly 3 years after iPhone 4 and iOS 4 were launched.

It seems that Apple has put into iOS 7.0.3 some code which is requesting new certificates in case the old ones are expired (that's why we have to again through the iMessage registration procedure since the update).