Primmedogg
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Q: Imessages Stopped Working Deployed Overseas

First of all thank you all for the help.

So I am a Soldier deployed between Iraq and Kuwait since September. I suspended my Verizon account for my IPhone 6 Plus since I was going to be out of the states for 9 months altogether. My main avenues for contacting family has been through Imessage and Facetime operating off Wifi on Airplane mode. These functions worked really well up until yesterday. I tried to restore my Iphone to no avail and even looked up various methods to try and fix it including logging out of Imessage, nothing has worked. Right now I am logged into Imessage and it is stuck "Waiting on Activation" with the Apple ID checked and Phone number greyed out loading under send and receive. I was reading the only way to reactivate it would be to send out a SMS message, in which I cannot do so due to services being shut off in the middle of a desert. I would appreciate all the insight on this problem. Maybe one of you ran into the same problem. I really hope there is a work around. 

iPhone 6s Plus, iOS 9.2.1, Overseas

Posted on Mar 14, 2016 8:19 AM

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Q: Imessages Stopped Working Deployed Overseas

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  • by razmee209,

    razmee209 razmee209 Mar 14, 2016 8:45 AM in response to Primmedogg
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    Mar 14, 2016 8:45 AM in response to Primmedogg

    Primmedogg wrote:

     

    First of all thank you all for the help.

    So I am a Soldier deployed between Iraq and Kuwait since September. I suspended my Verizon account for my IPhone 6 Plus since I was going to be out of the states for 9 months altogether. My main avenues for contacting family has been through Imessage and Facetime operating off Wifi on Airplane mode. These functions worked really well up until yesterday. I tried to restore my Iphone to no avail and even looked up various methods to try and fix it including logging out of Imessage, nothing has worked. Right now I am logged into Imessage and it is stuck "Waiting on Activation" with the Apple ID checked and Phone number greyed out loading under send and receive. I was reading the only way to reactivate it would be to send out a SMS message, in which I cannot do so due to services being shut off in the middle of a desert. I would appreciate all the insight on this problem. Maybe one of you ran into the same problem. I really hope there is a work around.

    you've already answered your own question.

     

    If you get an error when trying to activate iMessage or FaceTime - Apple Support