iMessage and FaceTime Down for Some, No Estimate on Service Restoration Yet

Mine just came back up.

I think mine is back up in NYC.

Edit: Yes mine seems to be working now. Hopefully its fixed.

It 's baaaaack!!!

Its not 100% though, because messages take a while to say "delivered" to certain people. Not sure...

iMessage and Facetime are back online, as found on the iCloud website

I do not know the exact time when the connection was re-established

thanks allot i missed out on a hoop session at the gym cause the messages didn't come thru

Why does it mean down for some? Lol I was on 6.1.2 and jailbroken so I assume iMessage being down only affected those who were still on 6.1.2. Was anyone on 6.1.2 not affected or someone on 6.1.3 who was effected.

AznTakumi said:

Why does it mean down for some? Lol I was on 6.1.2 and jailbroken so I assume iMessage being down only affected those who were still on 6.1.2. Was anyone on 6.1.2 not affected or someone on 6.1.3 who was effected.

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They probably had some network outages. Messages and connections are handled by "farms" of servers, and most likely only part of that farm was affected. Many factors determine how the farm is distributed across the user load, so outages will undoubtably affect some users, but not all.

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HE15MAN said:

It's is uncalled for

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Huh? How much did you pay for iCloud this month?

no interruption in champaign IL...

I'm glad it was up. I had to resort to antiquated SMS. I felt like an oldtimer, using SMS. Just kidding! I hate the green text bubbles.

I didn't realize it was down until I got 52 new messages all at once last night. I'm surprised they just "waited" instead of becoming SMS.

I don't like that I could miss and important message in an event like this.

All working now

Is there any way to stop pictures (mms) but still send them through iMessage? This happened yesterday and I didn't realise as I've only had the phone for a week! So I sent a few pictures and probably going to be charged.. I want to prevent this in the future but the disable mms button stops pictures through iMessage too.

92jlee said:

the disable mms button stops pictures through iMessage too.

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It doesn't - at least not on stock iOS 6.1.3.

This is why I have an alternative texting app (Heywire) on my phone. The other alternative is to actually call someone

drlunanerd said:

It doesn't - at least not on stock iOS 6.1.3.

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It makes the "attach picture" button greyed out on mine. I'm stock latest update.

Ill try again and make sure my friend is defo on iMessage with signal and see what it does.

92jlee said:

It makes the "attach picture" button greyed out on mine. I'm stock latest update.

Ill try again and make sure my friend is defo on iMessage with signal and see what it does.

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Strange. I even rebooted my test iPhone 5 after toggling in case that was a factor - perhaps you could try that too.

Glad it isn't just me, lol. I've been out of the country visiting Cananda and noticed that iMessage hasn't been working for the last 48 hours. Any idea if AT&T will reimburse me for all these SMS? It's still down for me FYI. "Waiting for Activation"

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Strange. I even rebooted my test iPhone 5 after toggling in case that was a factor - perhaps you could try that too.

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I've checked and you are right, thank you. I'm still learning.

I was wondering why my messages were not going through. The last time they were having all of the issues they were doing updates at the data center. Maybe there will be an iCloud update at WWDC.