ios 8 imessage not working for phone number

Hello All,

I have 100% same problem in my iphone 5s ios 8.1.1 too....

but, my phone number not showing at all in FACE TIME & iMessage. only showing my email address. i have also made the RESET NETWORK SETTINGS & also turn off my phone and turned on my phone many time. But, didn't get any solution. So, is there any one to help us....

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😟 Me too!

I just had this problem. First, it started with the grayed out number that I can't choose. Then went to my number not being there at all.

I read that there has to be cellular data.

I did a full restore and kept playing with iMessage and Facetime, because both said they couldn't activate.

My number is still not able to be selected, but it shows up now. I cannot select the number from my Mac either. It's no longer an option.

I'm out of country at the moment and I'm not sure if that has something to do with it.

It began after I restored my phone (For a-whole-nother problem), earlier today.

Before anybody does a reset first try to sign out of iCloud in settings/messages/send and receive then sign back in. if this doesn't work sign out of iCloud in messages FaceTime and settings/icloud.

I did these things multiple times. Even tried in airplane mode with just WiFi on. No way helped.

I cannot select my number for iMessage or Facetime.

I think I found a solution to this. Try going to the "send & receive" thing in messages settings and then sign out of your Apple ID. This worked for me and now my iMessages is using my phone number instead of my Apple ID. Hope this helps!

Just thought I'd emphasize one point made above--and the critical difference that fixed my problem: log out of iCloud in the Settings. I had logged out in iMessage and Facetime---that didn't solve it. Must go to Settings>iCloud, then log out. After that, start over by logging back in to iCloud. Hope that helps...

Using an email address to send and receive messages is optional, but using your phone number is non-optional which is why it is greyed out.

I logged out from the iCloud and the messages from the settings,then I signed in again and I could choose my phone number.I hope it helps you!

iMessage doesn’t use phone number

Those who have upgraded to iOS8 may also notice that the option to use their phone number to send iMessages doesn’t appear to be available. In Settings, the phone number is listed but you cannot select it because it is greyed out. This means that all iMessages would be sent only by email or iCloud ID. What you can do to solve this is to go to Settings and disable iMessage and Facetime. In Settings, go to General and scroll down to Reset and then select “Reset Your Network Settings”. After resetting, check that you are connected to Wi-Fi and enable iMessage and Facetime. Your phone number should now be available as an option to send iMessages.

This solved it for me. Thanks ealvarez700!

This did not work for me