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Q: In Messages, my phone number is in gray. Why cannot I be reached in iMessage using my phone number?
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Apr 1, 2015 2:47 PMby Phil0124,Gray means it cannot be turned off. Its gray on mine too. What it means is on your iPhone You cannot not be reachable at your number by iMessage of FaceTime. It should have a checkmark next to it.
FaceTime and iMessage must alway be able to use your cell number so it can never be un checked. As long as it has a checkmark next to it its fine eventhough it looks gray.
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Apr 1, 2015 3:34 PMby Eric Shawn2,Mine has been acting up all day like this. Was perfectly fine last night. Grey bubble for texts sent to me, and blue bubbles when I send text to iPhone users. This morning, without doing anything different to my phone other then texting, it was green bubbles when I send to iPhone users. And no replies ALL DAY. I texted Android users I know, and they received my texts, and I received theirs. Just when I got home, I finally received a text from my brother. But when I replied back, it was still a green bubble. But he tells me, it's blue for him when he sends to other iPhone users. Yes, iMessage is turned on. Short of resetting my phone to factory, I've done all the troubleshooting involved with fixing iMessage issues. All of it. No luck.
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Apr 1, 2015 3:58 PMby Eric Shawn2,Not for me. I haven't seen or even heard of that message appearing on iPhones. Must be a new thing Apple pushed to some iPhones.
All I know was it has been working fine, until this morning. Without doing anything different. Very annoying. And yes, especially for people in your situation, you end up spending money on sms messages.
Where did the message come up for you. Did it just pop up on your phone's screen?
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Apr 1, 2015 4:08 PMby Eric Shawn2,Yes, both my number and email address is attached. Always has been. Nothing has changed since last night when it was working fine.
I did forget to mention that when I tried sending texts this morning, it was a blue bubble. Then it gave me the "not delivered" message, then my phone resent the text as an SMS. This happened to the first 3 texts I sent out. After that, it's been stuck on SMS. I've rebooted, turned iMessage on and off, removed signed off and on my AppleID, and I even reset the network settings. That is as far as I will go with resetting anything.
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Apr 1, 2015 4:19 PMby Eric Shawn2,No weak connections at work, or at home. Before today, even sending iMessages through LTE was no issue. The only other time this happened was because iMessage server was down (that was about a year ago). Which is why I was asking if anyone else had issues. My brother doesn't seem to have any, or any of my co-workers. In my circle, it would just seem to be my phone. Again, was working perfectly fine, until this morning. With me doing nothing different. Unless I was sleepwalking and messed with my phone and I don't remember it. lol
