iPhone 4 facetime not working

Certainly sounds plausible, and I immediately wonder if there's a way to renew this certificate without all the upgrade gymnastics. That would be great.

I also wonder, however, why iMessage is still working if that's the problem.

UPDATED TO IOS 7.0.3 OVER THE AIR

TURNED OFF FACETIME THEN RE-ENABLED - BAM!! FACETIME WORKING AGAIN! NO RESET BESET OF NETWORK SETTINGS OR ANYTHING ELSE REQUIRED!

FINALLY APPLE MOVED THE AR$E$ AND DID SOMETHING ABOUT IT ALL.

LETS PUT THIS THREAD TO BED NOW! 😁

No! This group is way too valuable to split up! We've bonded.

First we have to keep the doors open tillall of our bretheren have regained their Facetime

And then...

Aren't there other issues like this that we can help solve?

We're superheros

Oh. And make no mistake about it.

Apple DID respond to us.

Yesssss! FT works again on my (early 2010 batch) IPhone 4 after updating to iOS 7.0.3, finally!!!

It's a UK bought (neverlocked) phone, my provider is Vodafone NL (The Netherlands).

So glad Apple fixed the issue after months of frustration ;-)

And thanks to all of you here for the posts, testing etc.

Keep up the good work!

Greetings from Amsterdam

i'm pleased many of you are pleased that this issue is 'fixed'...

but i'm not... for me, I absoultely hate iOS 7, so for now, i'm going to hold off updating for as long as possible (like until majority of apps start making ios 7 minimum requirement).

wish there was a fix for older firmwares, there's obviously something in the backup that could potentially fix this stupid problem.

it was broken without a firmware update, so why can't it be fixed without a firmware update?

Got an iPod 4th generation.

Facetime not working since 3 weeks ago...
Can't install ios7.

Am I fu***d if I ever want to use FT again?

No, if iOS7 can't be installed, if you go the other route by Restoring the iPod to factory, you should then have the latest iOS Apple supports for that device. Then download your Apps, and your individually backed-up content.

nevets2 wrote:

Oh. And make no mistake about it.

Apple DID respond to us.

Apple responded to the feedback given at apple.com/feedback.

Apple did not respond to this thread.

I recently had this problem. I noticed in my FT settings that there was no check mark next to my phone number. I turned off FT then back on, and the check showed up. FT then worked again. I also closed a white noise app. I don't know if that helps.

Jill

Southern New Jersey, USA

iPhone 4S (Verizon)

With all due respect, there are ample reasons for FT failure with any iPhone, but the failure discussed here is specific to the iP4 only, and no later models. The fix has been furnished by Apple in the latest iOS7 update, and seems to be the only way to do it.

Do this:

Go to Settings > wifi > click on your wifi network and change the DNS to 8.8.8.8

FaceTime will work. Same goes for iMessage. Hope it works for you.

Isn't it strange how Apple claims Facetime connectivity issues were fixed in today's iOS 7.0.4, when we all who have been following this thread, know it got fixed in 7.0.3 - at least the iPhone 4 issues we were having.

I guess perhaps there were other issues as well, but I am ambivalent about upgrading, in case it now breaks my Facetime again...

*THIS* bug sure did *not* get fixed with iOS 7.03, and finally today (with iOS 7.04) 6 months later is the issue finally resolved and Facetime working on my iPhone 4 again.

Thank you Apple.

Horrendous that we'd all to read and type 35 pages of this thread and wait *FIVE* bug fixes upgrades for you to bother though.

This thread can now be laid to rest.

Not 100% sorted judging by my iOS 7.0.4 experience so far...

I finally got time to update (straight to 7.0.4 from 6.*) and FaceTime / iMessage is not working - fails to authenticate when I try to sign in using my valid AppleID / password in FaceTime. Says check network connection (which is fine for other apps). IMessage says 'waiting to authorise' if set to is my phone no. Or same as FaceTime if I switch to using the AppleID.

Seems too be happening for others too - not sure if it's linked to this pre-iOS7 issue I had or if I've just been unlucky twice...

Currently giving it upto 24hrs to activate, as that's apple's 1st suggested troubleshooting step, but their suggestions if that doesn't work look horribly familiar... :(