imessage giving a not delivered exclamation symbol for every message, but the message is being sent

Question

Level 1

0 points

imessage giving a not delivered exclamation symbol for every message, but the message is being sent

What the heck is going on with imessage?

I just updated to 7.0.3 and now everytime I send an imessage it alerts me and tells me my message has not been sent eventhough the recipient gets the message. Its annoying. I thought the update was supposed to fix the imessage problem. Honestly, I switched from android to apple because of all this bull**** that I had to deal with for android, I go over to apple and its the same thing.

It keeps giving me that red exclamation point next to my message eventhough I know the other person gets the message. They respond to my questions! Its happnening to a few of my friends too. Its even happening on my imessage on my macbook and my ipad mini, none of those imessages are working.

Come on Apple step up your game and address this issue.

Is there anyway to fix this issue?

Im on an iphone 5, ipad mini and a macbook pro

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.3

Posted on Oct 28, 2013 12:07 AM

Reply

Answer 1

Oct 28, 2013 5:19 AM in response to Lambonator

My wife and I are having the same issue. I know my messages are being received but i get the red exclamation point and a message that says it wasn't delivered. started happening after i updated to the latest firmware, 7.0.3.

Reply

Answer 2

janicew

Level 1

0 points

Oct 28, 2013 7:07 AM in response to Lambonator

This exact thing also happened to me. Additionally when other iMessage users responded to me, they also got a Not Delivered message even though I did receive it.

I tried resetting Network settings, turning iMessage on and off, restarting, etc.

Finally this morning I went all out. I made sure I was backed up to iCloud and then did a full reset and erased all data. I restored from an iCloud backup and now things are working.

There was a little glitch at first, although it may have been user error. I have two iPhones - personal and corporate and I sync my iMessages between them. (Personal is the one with the problems that I reset.) I found that in my iMessage settings (under Send & Receive Addresses), my personal phone wasn't selected after the restore, and it wasn't using it as the source for sending a new message. I had to put a checkmark back in front of the personal phone number and select it as the new message number. It's possible I messed up when setting up the phone, but I didn't think so.

Anyway, I have done multiple tests and my iMessages are now all sending correctly and seem to be working.

Hope that helps someone. I've found a few reports of this since the 7.0.3 upgrade rolled out, but nothing with a fix. May not work for everyone, but it may be worth a shot.

Janice

Reply