disable message "Your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage"

I believe this is a issue on 4s. I am also experiencing this problem on my 4s but not 6. This is not just irritating, but my carrier will charge us a global sms if i had accidentally pressed the OK button. Been charged a few times for this. Is apple support looking at this issue?

We would have no way of knowing what Apple is doing about it. I suspect it is a local problem with your phone, and not a problem that Apple can fix, as I haven't seen any other reports of it. You should be able to stop it by going to Settings/Messages and Settings/Facetime and signing out.

iMessage and Facetime both have been disabled, I do not use them at all. After upgrading to IOS9, the pop up keep appearing every now and then. This is in line with the problem as stated by the thread starter.

TThey may be disabled, but have you signed out also?

Please elaborate on signing out. Based on the self help by apple, there is no need to sign out to disable iMessage and Facetime. I do not experience the same issues on my iPhone 6. This only happens on 4s as stated.

https://selfsolve.apple.com/deregister-imessage

GO to settings/FaceTime. If it is off turn it on. Tap your Apple ID aand tap Sign Out. Do the same for messages. Deregistering removes your account from Apple's servers, but your phone does not know that you have done that. The deregister procedure is so users who no longer have an iPhone will receive messages from iPhone users as SMS.

I will try it and will post my findings after a few days.

Any solutions yet?

Same problem here. I'm using an iPhone 5C. It's a recent problem that appears to be related to upgrading the OS.

Look 2 messages above yours.

I have this problem too on both mine and my wife iPhone 6, iOS 9.2.1.

It's really annoying and once I pressed OK by mistake, and it enabled FT/IM by using 2 SMS for a total of 3€ (Italy)!

It's not the 3€ loss, but the non perfect functionality of iMessage, where once enabled becomes very difficult to use normal text messages when needed.

I don't want IM/FT enabled at this time and don't want to get those pop ups every day!

Then follow the instructions I posted above. Which I will repeat here so you don't have to scroll back:

GO to settings/FaceTime. If it is off turn it on. Tap your Apple ID aand tap Sign Out. Do the same for messages if your Apple ID is visible. Deregistering removes your account from Apple's servers, but your phone does not know that you have done that. The deregister procedure is so users who no longer have an iPhone will receive messages from iPhone users as SMS.

Thank you for reply, but I miss one thing: I don't want IM/FT totally disabled, I still want to use them by email but not by phone number.

The problem is that if I enabled IM/FT by email address, it continue to try enabling also by phone number: this is the issue.

Hi,

I have an iPhone 4S and iOS 9.2.1 (it began I think (after thinking about it for a while) with this update).

I get this popup about 3-4 times a week saying "Your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate Facetime"

The conundrum here is that I've never ever enabled Facetime to begin with, never logged in to it and have it totally disabled on my phone. So since I'm already "logged out" (cause I've never been logged in) and cannot use the solution Lawrence Finch suggests, I was wondering if anyone might know what to do here.

Because it's very very annoying!

😟

Thanks!

sickanpickan wrote:

The conundrum here is that I've never ever enabled Facetime to begin with, never logged in to it and have it totally disabled on my phone. So since I'm already "logged out" (cause I've never been logged in) and cannot use the solution Lawrence Finch suggests, I was wondering if anyone might know what to do here.

When you set up a phone it prompts for your iCloud ID and password. If you enter it the setup automatically logs you in to iCloud, iTunes & App Stores, iMessage, email, Game Center, and Facetime. So unless you never logged in to iCloud (which you need to do to enable Find my iPhone) you are logged in to Facetime. To check go to Settings/Facetime and turn it on. If you are logged in your iCloud ID will appear at the top of the display. If you are logged in tap on your ID and log out. You can be logged in even if it is turned off, and the only way to find out is to turn it on.

Hi,

I've never set up iCloud in any setup process ever, (don't use iCloud at all) or Find my iPhone.

If I enable Facetime again from general->restrictions, it just shows that I'm not logged in.

When I prompt to "turn on" Facetime in this view it shows that I'm not logged in.

I also get a popup nag, so I just close it down by hitting cancel.

(This is the same nag popup that keeps repeating itself after last update, never any problems before)

Thanks for your help.