Restoring iPhone to factory settings

If you can't send or receive messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

In some cases yes, but I would try and reset network settings first as well as a hard reset.

Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network settings.

Hard reset- Hold sleep/wake and home button down for thirty seconds.

If none of that works, I would then try and fix iMessages by reseting your iphone

first make sure you have it backed up to iCloud or your laptop/PC

then Settings>General>Reset>Erase all Content and Settings.

Nobody here can say with any certainty that it will work, however, unless there is underlying hardware damage that nobody has accounted for, in theory, it should work. Before you restore the device, what troubleshooting steps have you taken and exactly what happens when you try to send a text?

On the iPad, did you go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive at>You can be reached by iMessages at>Your iPhone number? Is the phone number checked?

You can try this and while it is not nearly as much work as restoring the iPad, it does take some time and effort to get things back to where they were. Reset all Settings. Settings>General>Reset>Reset all Settings.

This does not affect any data, but it returns the iPad to out of the box condition with regard to the settings. All WiFi network passwords will have to be re-entered, your wallpaper, brightness settings, privacy settings and everything else in the settings app will have to be configured to where you had them before resetting. You will have to sign into Facetime and Messages again as well.

redskins4me wrote:

This is going to sound strange but after I updated to 9.3.4 on both my iPhone and my iPad it stop sending messages to contacts that to no have an Apple device.

The first thing you should do in that case is contact your carrier and make sure that your phone account is properly configured for texting. Even if it was before, something could have happened. SMS is a carrier function and you should always start there.

Did you try restarting or resetting the phone? Resetting would be the two button reboot that you tried so many times.

I would hate to see you have to sign out of iMessage and sign back in again on the phone at this point, but it might be worth a try.

redskins4me wrote:

OH MY!!!!!!! I don't know what just happened

Who cares as long as it's working again! I'm glad to hear that you got it all sorted out. 🙂