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iMessage says pic not delivered, but it reaches recipient

I've recently had trouble where sending an imessage picture returns a "not delivered" result, but the picture does reach the recipient. I've noticed this with multiple recipients. My wife also had the same issue trying to send me a picture. I retried multiple times and each time it reported "not delivered".


Are we the only ones running into this?

iPhone 5s, iOS 7.1

Posted on Apr 7, 2014 11:10 AM

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Posted on Apr 17, 2014 7:08 AM

Hoping to bump this back to the top since no one has chimed in. Anyone have an idea of what's happening with this?

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Jun 4, 2014 9:27 PM in response to CuttingItFineFilms

I'm having the same issues as well. I've tried turning off/signing out of my apple accounts on all my apple devices, and the problem would be resolved for few hours and later return. I've also reset my network settings and restarted my phone. The funny thing is normal text imessages are delievered, and my pictures if a read receipt is sent will state it has been read (despite having the warning of "not delievered").


Many of my other friends are having the same issue. Is this just a glitch in the imessage system?

Jun 11, 2014 2:22 PM in response to thutch79

I have been having the same issue -- sending contacts or photos through iMessage returns "Not Delivered," both incoming and outgoing. I've been getting picture texts from friends 6-7 times because they think it's not sending, and have probably sent picture texts similarly. I reset my network settings twice yesterday and hard rebooted my phone, to no avail. Are there any other solutions??

Jun 15, 2014 8:19 PM in response to Mac Carlos

I get this too, in honor of "Orange is the new black" (and 100 is the new 700) I've decided that "not delivered is the new delivered".


I have an ipad and an iphone and when I send a picture on the iphone and this happens the pictures don't show up on the ipad. The ipad and the iphone used to be almost perfectly in sync now it seems like pictures are doing their own thing.


I have zero interest in having a genius or anyone else tell me to reset all my stuff. It's amazing that after years of imessage working basically flawlessly it's now totally unreliable. Interestingly enough with the most recent update to skype it works a lot better on the iphone. I guess what goes around comes around.

Jun 16, 2014 10:01 AM in response to thutch79

Same problem running iOS7 on iPhone5s. I've turned imessage off and on, reset network settings, and reset all data to no avail. Oddly I have the same problem with imessage on my mac and ipad. I can send a picture to my wife, she gets it, and I can watch imessage say 'delivered' then 'read' and then 'not delivered'. What's up Apple? Seems to me that this is a systemic iMessage problem since it is affecting all platforms.


My wife and my daughter also are experiencing the same problem.

iMessage says pic not delivered, but it reaches recipient

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