iMessage and Facetime not working in 8.3 (iPad 3 Wifi)

I have the EXACT same problem since update. Both are very slow loading in Settings and then won't let me sign in. Then hours later it signs in by itself, receives a few messages and then signs out again. So frustrating! And because it's an Ipad2 and out of warranty, Apple won't help.

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What I would suggest doing is signing out of both services and then rebooting your iPad.

iMessage

Settings --> Messages --> Sign Out

FaceTime

Settings --> FaceTime --> Sign Out

Once your iPad has finished rebooting than sign back into iMessage and FaceTime.

As a side question, are you using Apple's 2 Step Verification for your Apple ID? This is a setting you manually have to turn on so chances are, if you didn't turn it on than you don't have 2 Step Verification.

IPad won't let me sign out of IMessage or FaceTime. It doesn't give me the option to turn off. Just asks for my Apple ID and password. And my 2-step verification is off also. I have rebooted a few times, still nothing.

So even after turning iMessage and FaceTime off as well as rebooting the device you are still experiencing the same problems?

It doesn't give me the option to turn them off. I rebooted again and iMessage was on. I received old messages from last night and then it suddenly stopped. I went back to settings and it was signed out again.

If you wouldn't mind, please attach a screenshot of your Messages section in Settings. Remember to block out any personal information such as phone numbers, email addresses, etc..

This could also be an issue with your network. I would suggest go into Settings --> Reset --> Reset All Network Settings. This will NOT erase any of your data, it will just reset your network settings.

I just bought an iPad 3 mini WiFi only and I am also not able to login on iMessage and FaceTime. All other logins seem to be working fine, browsing works fine, but these two applications fail.

Considering that I bought this for my mother because it is the simplest to use, I am quite disappointed to say the least.

Do you have a more useful input than resetting and rebooting? These are quite useless!

Thanks,

Jean Paul

From what it sounds like, your wireless network is the culprit of this problem.

I think if you look at related discussions there are lots of people who can't get onto iMessage or Facetime at the moment with their iPads (yet some can on other devices) and appears to be an AppleID verification problem. I've been advised that 'Engineering are working on it...'

Sounds more likely to be an Apple issue rather than my network...

Thanks for the heads up

I also have this very same issue. It starts doing this if I try to delete an individual message thread in messages. I then have to reboot the device and the deleted message thread reappears (does not delete). It works fine as long as I don't try to delete an individual text message thread after a fresh reboot. As a matter of fact, I have been unable to delete any individual text message threads in messages since this issue started.

This all started with one of the IOS 8 updates.

I have spent several days trying to fix this, with no luck. I have done everything except a clean erase of my iPad 2 wifi. (I depend upon messages on the iPad as the wi Fi on my iPhone 4S has been grayed out for over a year, another unsolvable epidemic.). The iPad has worked like a champ on iOS 6+ for several years. I regret updating to iOS 8.3. I can live without Facetime, but not iMessage. I have tried to delete all message threads, but they just come back every time I reboot. I have deleted all of them on the iPhone however. All other wifi functions are working. It is clear to me that the problem lies with iOS 8.3 and the message app. I am now debating doing a factory reset, a big deal as my whole work portfolio is on there... I'm thinking that if the inability to delete message threads has anything to do with it, a clean erase would take care of that, at least. It's my last hope.