What does "iMessage needs to be enabled to send this message" mean? I can't get my messages to send and when I try that pops up. What is it and how can I fix it?
iPhone 4, iOS 6.1.4
Holy Mackerel! I've been searching for the solution to this for a couple months, and now I just found it. This is the EASY fix people.
The reason it is trying to send using IMESSAGE is that it's trying to continue a thread you had before with that recipient. Just open up the message window and at the top do a search for that person's name. Then for each entry found (including groups if you want) swipe them left to delete them. When you're done, the screen should be pretty much blank. Start a new message to this person and it should come up GREEN as SMS and you're good to go.
Note I didn't have to do anything in my settings or reboot the phone or any of that stuff. I've had iMessage turned off for a while and have been dealing with this problem for some time.
disable imessage and just enter the number again instead of using the previous link to that person's messages. That will create a new regular sms text link to that number and green will work
thanks leesehome. resetting network settings worked for me too
What works fine for me is, delete the message and then disable the iMessage and then send a message. The previous messages are lost though.
What does it mean when my phone says iMessage needs to be enable to send message?
Thank you so much!! It has solved my problem!!
My iMessage does it work
Thank you let me no
How do you enable iMessage
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Thanks Mate!
Even as a long time Apple user, it's still unclear how you'd do this.
"iMessage needs to be enabled to send this message?
