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Jul 18, 2015 2:18 PM in response to charlie358by Warkdude,I have gone through ALL the steps, (over & over again), to try to fix this problem and still cannot text that person. After attempting to text through other devices, I am getting the same error message. Maybe it is something wrong on their end. Any thoughts?
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Jul 21, 2015 10:57 AM in response to Warkdudeby MaryEMo,ME TOO!!! I had this problem with two people on my iphone5 and recently purchased the 6. Now those two people I am able to text normally on new phone BUT I am getting this message when I text my co-worker. I have tried almost every suggestion on here!! I wonder if I have to do all these steps of clearing recent history on ipad and MacBook that are connected to my phone. Someone help us!
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Oct 10, 2015 10:07 AM in response to charlie358by Peggy1493,I had the same problem; I was unable to send texts on my IPhone 6 to someone in my same area code. I tried going into Contacts and editing the phone number to add a 1 in front if the area code and it worked! Hope this helps someone else. Good luck.
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Nov 3, 2015 7:25 PM in response to charlie358by Universum01,A Solution:
I work ATT Tech support, why after 3 IOS versions they have not fixed this yet is mind boggling but anyhow, i have a fix that works every-time iv used it for people. Go to Notes app> Type out the persons number, EX: 123-456-7892 but without the dashes 1234567892 and change the last number to a letter. EX: 7892 changes to 789A aka 123456789A
Then select and copy that number/letter combo> Go to that persons contact and edit out there number and replace it with this Via paste(you can't enter Letters into the contact directly so you have to use notes to change the number this way)
After that just send a message to that persons contact name.
So contact John will have a phone number of 123456789A and i will send a message to John.
If the last number of the contact is:
2 then you can change it to A or B or C EX 9999999992 = 999999999A Or 999999999B Or 999999999C
3 = D Or E Or F
4 = G Or H Or I
5 = J Or K Or L
6 = M Or N Or O
7 = P Or Q Or R Or S
8 = T Or U Or V
9 = W Or X Or Y Or Z
If there number ends in 1 then i have no fix for that, will have to wipe the phone or use a 3rd party app as i don't think apple will ever patch is -_-
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Dec 8, 2015 12:36 PM in response to Universum01by Michiganne,Universum01's fix worked for me for SENDING. I get the same error message if I try to REPLY to a message from the problem number, so I can communicate only by sending (going directly to the Contact and sending message from there). Better than nothing and better than resetting network, throwing out all texts, etc. Thanks, Universum01 ; no thanks to Apple
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Dec 9, 2015 9:02 PM in response to Michiganneby Universum01,Hmm, try this:
Remove all text messages from that person, including group messages.
Remove all contacts with the number in them (if you have more then one contact for the person)
Then make a new message, start to type that contacts name in the TO field, the contact will likely still come up, there will be a blue i next to it, tap that and pick the option for Remove from recent from the list that pops up. Do this for all contact names you had that number under.
After all that fun stuff redo the steps in my post above and let me know what you get.
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Dec 14, 2015 5:25 PM in response to Universum01by Universum01,After some more testing it seems there is no fix, you can SMS the person but cannot reply, just have to wait till apple fixes it.
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Feb 5, 2016 1:21 PM in response to dcunoby carolyn223,Thank you dcuno!!!!!
This worked. I had deleted all txt, removed contact, etc. but the deal killer for me was the group TXT's! When I deleted those too it all got better. Yea!
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Jul 29, 2016 9:16 AM in response to dcunoby kristenw80,Thank you! I was really annoyed when this started happening and your solution worked!
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Oct 6, 2016 11:18 PM in response to charlie358by Mr_Hollywood,I found a simple solution. I opened a new thread to text a friend. Apparently, iPhone didn't like that. I deleted the new thread, scrolled way down to the original thread, and texted from there. Message sent. NO ERROR MESSAGE!
This was all done within the text message App. No deleting contacts, messing with the settings, or any of that foolishness.