Facetime is not "verifying" my email address

Hey nimbus,

Thanks for the question. Were you sent a verification email? If so, you’ll want to follow the instructions in that email:

FaceTime for Mac: Troubleshooting FaceTime

http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4185

If you are unable to activate FaceTime, try the following:

Sign in to FaceTime for Mac using a valid Apple ID. After you validate the email address for use with FaceTime, other FaceTime users can connect to you using that email address. If you encounter issues registering or using an Apple ID account:

- Ensure that you have an active Internet connection.

- Verify that you are using a valid Apple ID at appleid.apple.com. You can also create an Apple ID or reset your password from this website.

- Check that your email address is verified in FaceTime > Preferences.

- If FaceTime > Preferences shows your email status as "verifying," follow the instructions in the verification email that was sent to complete the process.

- Toggle FaceTime off and on in FaceTime > Preferences.

- If still unable to Sign In follow the instructions in FaceTime, Game Center, Messages on OS X: Troubleshooting Sign in

Thanks,

Matt M.

Same problem no email ever recieved

Did you select "Turn FaceTime On" from the FaceTime menu (Command-K)?

-Steve

Found what worked for me (same problem) - facetime doesn't appear to work if you don't have an icloud account entered in accounts (settings). Worked once I did.

After two months of various attempts to sort out an issue with FaceTime on my IMac late 2012 I still cannot get it to connect , but it does on my laptop.

It will not verify when I try to start it up. When I try to update with the latest version in the mac app store it tells me I have a newer version. It will not let me delete the installed version as its part of the OS.... This has been an issue now for over a month and I now just use my MacBook pro for FaceTime. All my software is up to date . . Except for FaceTime!

I too had the problem with FaceTime being stuck on "verifying...".

What worked for me was to simultaneously launch the Messages app and sign-in with that same Apple ID.

For some reason, the Messages and FaceTime apps seem to be connected during the initial Verification step.

Subsequently, after successful Apple ID verification, no need to run Messages app to use FaceTime.

rcw2g.us: thanks for the workround; worked a treat!

Thanks. This did the trick!

I can't verify my FaceTime account I can't open my email

In my iPhone or iPad my Apple ID doesn't sign in in FaceTime, iCloud, iMessage also it's only working in AppStore only the one thing which were my id is working.

that work-around worked, these iPads are magic and you provided the spell!🙂