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ios 10 imessage apps not working

update to ios 10 went well but playing around within new imessge i discovered that while the native apps works as intended in imessage - music, recent, #images etc - other apps are not working within imessage - eg espn, drafts, opentable etc - the icon shows on the imessage screen when I go into the apps section but it never updates with any content.


anyone else experienced or got ideas on what to do ?

iPhone 6s, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 4:12 PM

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Posted on Sep 13, 2016 4:38 PM

That happened to me until I went to the App store and noticed those very apps had updates to be downloaded. After downloading the update and opening the app itself (not in messages, but the actual App) I went back to messages and they worked just fine!


Good luck!

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Sep 13, 2016 5:46 PM in response to CHGA16

Thanks


I had already updated everything but it got me thinking - most of these apps - ESPN, drafts etc were updated to the new version before i downloaded and installed ios 10. So i tried uninstalling ESPN and then reinstalling - it worked - now I have to go through and reinstall a number of apps that had been updated for imesage


Hope this helps others

Sep 13, 2016 6:10 PM in response to MikeAbramsNY

Yes - I have the same on problem on iphone and ipad


I did about 20 or 30 app updates before 3.00pm when I updated ios and it seems that if they had the ios 10 update in the app then imessage will not work - I am having to delete and reload all of those apps on each device - a real pain


if the ipad was updated after you downloaded and installed ios 10 you are fine - just the apps updated before the ios 10 install

Sep 13, 2016 10:47 PM in response to Johnny 12 Gauge

Thos needs a patch now. What happens on 3 or 4 days from now when people get around to updating to iOS 10 and all these app updates happened for the, either manually or automatically??? The iMessage apps will not work and there will be a lot more of them by then.


I, not looking forward to going through about 20 apps on 3 devices of reinstalls to get these imessage apps working.


i womder if the app developer puts out a future update will that make the iMessage work? Or it needs a clean install?


what a pain

ios 10 imessage apps not working

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