Message Effects Not Working, Getting Text Descriptions Instead - iOS 10 - iPhone 6

I just upgraded to iOS 10 and none of the new effects are working in iMessage. All of the effects are preloaded onto my phone, and I can send them perfectly fine. I even see the animations when they're sent. But when I receive any effects (whether it be a text effect or one of the full screen effects,) none of them show up for me. Instead, I get text descriptions of them: (sent with balloons), (sent with gentle effect), (sent with loud effect), (sent with laser effect), etc.

Yeah. She has them preloaded on her phone, and they show up when she hits send. But if I send her any, they just say various things like (sent with balloons), (sent with gentle text), etc...instead of the actual effects being there, it gives like a text description of them instead if that makes sense

I checked for Reduce Motion but it's been turned off the entire time (she never had it turned on.) I tried turning it on and then off again but that's didn't seem to fix anything. I tried restarting too, but no such luck. Any one else have this issue? Any one find a fix yet?

iPhone 6, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 13, 2016 4:29 PM

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Sep 14, 2016 10:06 AM in response to mell0wseas

I have the exact same problem. Upgraded iPhone 6 yesterday to iOS 10 + also my iPad Air 2. The iPad works with the text effects, but the phone doesn't let me send (pressing down on up blue arrow doesn't do anything), and ones I receive just spell out (sent with balloons) etc. I noticed it was also doing that on my Apple Watch, but that wasn't yet updated. That was another problem trying to update 4 times and it finally seems to be downloading the update.


I would love it know if anyone can figure out how to resolve this!

Sep 13, 2016 4:50 PM in response to mell0wseas

I noticed that when I was sitting in front of my Mac and testing all this stuff out that many times the message that had the effect that were sent to me would show up on the Mac first. In this case my phone, which I updated to iOS 10, did not get the affect (Slam or whatever). But, if I quit Messages on my Mac and had someone send me a message with an affect then it would display correctly on my phone.

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Message Effects Not Working, Getting Text Descriptions Instead - iOS 10 - iPhone 6

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