My brand new MacBook Pro is not sending pictures in iMessage. normal text no problem - all up to date.... what can i do?
has anybody found a solution for this long standing problem?
MacBook Pro TouchBar and Touch ID, iOS 12.1
Here’s how i fixed it.
Hopefully they fix this issue soon :-/
For a week now I have moved my images to the internal drive before putting them into a text message. And it works.
If I try to pull an image from an external drive....Nope, it hangs up.
I would hope that Apple will figure this out, but for now; I put the images into a folder on the desktop before attaching to a text.
They'll get it fixed, come on Apple.
Nope, that did not affect the issue for me. However, the source of the image file (internal drive vs external drive) has worked consistently.
Therefore, until Apple fixes this bug.....I move my images to the internal drive before attaching to a message.
This is, perhaps, the most enraging thing I have ever encountered. And Apple should be ashamed of itself for not making this easier; however, the solution is somewhat simple. You just have to set up message forwarding on your iPhone. Apple should identify this when a user is unable to send photos. But, Tim Apple isnt the greatest
FloatingZack,
FileVault is not turned on.
iPhone XS iOS 13.4
MBP 15" 2018 macOS Catalina 10.15.4
This really is a PITA for sending images via the messaging app on my MBP. I can not say when the issue started (which update) but I can tell you; If I move the image to the internal Mac HD the images sends every time, never fails.
If the image is on one of my external drives via USB, it never sends, ever. I have been using this procedure for several months now and it is the only way I can attach an image to a text message.
I agree that it is probably a settings issue. I have brought it up to Apple twice and they have no idea what I'm talking about.
Yes, it bugs the crap out of me, but not enough to sell my MBP and buy a Windows platform.
I had the same problem.
The problem was an active blacklist on my router. Here I had blocked a few Google addresses.
After I had cleaned up the list a bit, a synchronization for iCloud and iMessage (sending again images) was possible.
Is it very likely that something is going through google due to the increased data volume on the Internet?
6- Your problem may be because of your date and time settings. Lets resolve this. Click Apple menu > System Preferences > and then Date & Time; select the Time Zone tab and the “Set date and time automatically” checkbox, if it is already selected, unselect and wait a few seconds and reselect again. You may need to enter the admin password if the checkbox is dimmed.
This was exactly my problem. As long as the pictures / files are on the "system"-hard drive everything is fine. The behaviour just starts when I took a picture from a another disk (for example network drive, SD-card, second internal drive, external usb drive).
Thats very anoying when you have to play arround with large amount of files and had to copy it first to the first hard drive.
Does anyone know why iMessage don't send from other drives?
Has it something to do with file system?
Has it something to do with right management?
Wasn't able to do further tests.
But can tell, that my second internal drive is APFS (Encrypted) formated, like my system hard drive - so I would largely rule that out.
iMessage Photo problem:
I too have had the inability to send a photo as small as 67 KB through messaging with my 2014 MACBook Pro running Big Sur 11.2.3. The message board helped immensely!
As suggested I tried shutting down messaging and restarting it - no luck! Then as suggested by another I transferred the pic from my external drive (WD My passport for MAC) to my internal hard drive documents folder. YES, it worked I was able to send an important pic to my contractor!!!
I have all Apple products, phone, iPads, and two computers, Apple really should have fixed this problem as soon as they became aware of it or at least sent out a temporary fix to all original owners!
moving the image file from external hard drive to my local main drive before sending via imessage actually worked for me also.
i don't want to upgrade to big sur, nor do i want to lose all the messages on the mac so this workaround will have to do unfortunately...
I had the same problem off and on. Did what trisha245 said - sign out and sign back in ... Bingo - fixed my issues. Thank you trisha245
Quote: “Here’s how i fixed it.
Hopefully they fix this issue soon :-/“
so this approach causes you to lose all message archives?? Is there any way to restore files or conversations?
This is what works for me too. I just started targeting an external SSD when I export images from Lightroom and wasn't sure why they failed to send thru Messenger. Once I moved them to my internal drive and add them back to a message it works.
Recently I had this problem happen again, this time it was being caused by my files being on an external hard drive. Moving files locally fixed problems with imessage sending images from my macbook pro.
Just an update. It started working for me after I restarted the computer. I had neglected to restart.
awonz is correct in that your entire message history will be erased.
I hope Apple figures this out soon because it’s a very inconvenient solution.
I had the same problem. Found that I could send the image file using the Messages app by dragging a photo from the Photos window to the Messages window.
Macbook not sending pictures in IMessage anymore
