imessage not working with one contact only

I am having trouble with imessage with one contact only. I can send and receive imessages from other contacts. But there is one contact who imessage will not work with from my end or their end. They are also able to imessage others.

I am able to send an imessage to this contact through messages app on my mac also.


I have an iphone 5 running iOS 7.0.2

They have an iphone 5s also running iOS 7.0.2

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Oct 15, 2013 8:26 PM

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Posted on Feb 1, 2017 3:51 AM

I tried everything and finally i change the tick next to my phone number to my icloud email under "start new conversations from" under the "send & receive" section in the "messages" area

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Apr 20, 2014 4:31 AM in response to amcc0927

I am having the same problem. iMessage is working with selective people, but these selective people have working iMessage.


Things I have done to try fix this:

1. I reset my settings on my phone

2. Under settings, messages, I've tried turning off SMS/MMS, changing send & receive around - did not work

3. turned off iMessage and turned it back on again

4. re-booting my phone

5. I completely wiped my phone and restored it


Some of this helpd me fix some of the issue - yesterday my iMessage wouldn't even load - I was getting a network error when I tried too, and I could send a text message (not an iMessage), but I did not receive anything.


Now iMessage only works with selective contacts - doesn't matter if it's the 4S or 5. I know these contacts have working iMessage - because my iPad mini is fine! Same software - and same settings from what I can tell.


Any words of wisdom would help!

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