Does TunnelBear break iMessage?

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Does TunnelBear break iMessage?

TunnelBear seems to break iMessage. Others experience this? Is there a fix? When TunnelBear is turned on on either my MacBook Pro (Yosemite 10.10.2) or iPhone 6+ (8.1.3) almost always messages will only send via cellular (green). First I get the "failed to send" prompt, then usually (but not always) "try again" results it the message sending via cellular. I'd love to get iMessage back to normal. Fixes or workarounds? Thanks!

MacBook Pro (17-inch Mid 2010), OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Feb 27, 2015 1:48 PM

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Mar 16, 2015 6:36 PM in response to mixwiz

I've noticed that there's a work-around for this. Turn off Tunnelbear and send your first iMessage without it - wait until it shows as 'delivered'. Then you can go ahead and turn it back on, and continue using iMessage and it works fine.

Not sure why this happens. But it's **** annoying.

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