message application don't show character count - Iphone 4S with iOS7

First, is Character Count turned on: Settings>Messages>Character Count>On. Second, you won't get the character count if sending as an iMessage, only a regular SMS.

Hi, not working at me, same issue, turned off and on, restarted the device, nothing, no character count when writting sms...

I have iOS 7 on an iPhone 4s and had the same problem but was able to "solve" it. I turned the character count on in settings like mentioned in the replies above but didn't see character count working. Then I finally noticed it working on a text I was sending. The count appeared in a very tiny light gray font just above the "send" button for sending a message. It is very faint and hard to see when it appears. It'll show like "27/160" for example for 27 characters typed. And the real kicker is that it doesn't appear as soon as you start composing a text. For me the count would appear after about 30 characters had been typed. Sometimes it appears after 27 characters, sometimes after 32. I can't figure out the logic behind when it appears, it's odd.

But if you changed your setting to have the count on & don't see it, there's a chance that it's probably working and is difficult to see & only appears after a certain number of characters have been typed.

The character counter appears when a message wraps to the 2nd line while composing.

I was thinking that it was the number of characters inputted that would have turned it on but instead it's the line wrap.