Messages in iCloud currently disabled. Repair account

As per 91101's post of Apr 4, 2018 2:53 PM, I held down the power and volume-down buttons simultaneously until I got the "slide to power off" prompt, powered off then back on and it was gone! (iPhone 5s. Still have to update my iPhone 7 & iPad Air; was holding off due to this issue.)

Now, as for the nature of this beast, it seems obvious that iOS 11.3 has some "Messages in iCloud" code in it. Furthermore, I speculate that this issue is perhaps an unintended dead give-away that Apple is seeding up the Messages in iCloud "space." Moreover, I speculate that users who are already using Messages on multiple devices with the same Apple ID and are already iCloud-syncing other stuff e.g. Notes, Photos, Contacts, Calendars et c., are the most likely to experience this effect. Ironically, I take this effect as an indication that Messages in iCloud is going to come out burning and turning and working swell when it is finally released. 😎

I also had this problem on my 8+. I used the reboot sequence (vol up, vol dn, then hold the power/lock button until you see the apple logo). After the reboot, the message is gone. We will see if it returns but so far it's good. Hope this helps you.

That's rich! That did the trick. I held down power and volume-down buttons simultaneously until I got the "slide to power off" prompt, powered off, then back on and now it's gone. 😁

What I did which seemed to help a lot since I just got a new phone, was signing out of Apple, doing a soft reset which is the power an home button together until it shuts off an the logo flashes turning it back on logging back in an since i did that the message hasn’t shown up. Hope this works.

same issue - thanks - hard reboot worked

Had the same message when I updated to 11.3. Did a basic re-boot and message was gone. This was on the older 5s phone.

Hold them down together until the phone does a hard reboot and then restarts. It wasn’t clear in his suggestion as I had the same issue. Another user was much more clear that you were supposed to hold both buttons simultaneously until the phone rebooted. And it worked.

carlton252 wrote:

How do you repair the desabled iMessages?

The intruction was to go open up a new message, see the problem, then hold down (on iPhone X) Open + Volume buttons together to shut down. Then Open button to start up. Problem should disappear. It did and has not yet resurfaced.

So this just happened to me as well... I just did a Hard Reset to fix this problem. On my Iphone 8, I pressed the Volume-Up, then Volume-down, then the power button, all in that order. Turned my phone back on, and VOALA! Back to normal. 🙂 Hopes this helps someone else like it did for me.

You don't need to do anything. Ignore it. It is a remnant from the previous Beta version, and it doesn't do anything. Just ignore it.

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I think I figured it out. It seems that you have to hold these buttons down together on the lock screen, not while the phone is unlocked. When I tried this and the phone was unlocked, all that happened was that the volume was adjusted. But since the volume buttons aren't even functional on the lock screen, I'm thinking that it would have been just as sufficient to just hold down the power button and shut it down like normal.

Either way, that the "iCloud disabled" message no longer appears in my Messenger inbox. Thanks all!

Somebody here suggested turning off two-factor authentication which I did. So far, so good!

Restarting phone like top comment said works! Thank you

All you have to do is press the VOL - and the power button and it will show a the white Apple logo and then it will cutoff then turn on then the error msg will go away

As I’ve previously stated numerous times all you have to do is from the lock screen press and hold both the power and the volume\/ buttons until the black screen with the Apple logo appears then it will disappear after this process if someone tells you not to worry bout it don’t listen cause your msg won’t show up in there only iCloud msgs but yeah if you need further help please feel free to reach out to me and I will do my very best to assist you with whatever issues you may have here is a photo I’ve uploaded to show an example of what the screen will look like after you follow the process I’ve stated above just make sure that you do it from the lock screen hold down the power button and the volume \/ button together at the same time until you see the black screen with the Apple logo I. The middle and the phone will do the rest from there here are 2 different ways to do it but same process I hope that this was helpful for you as it has worked for myself and everyone else you may have to attempt more than once if you don’t get it the first time