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Apple Aware of iOS 7 iMessage Issue, Working on a Fix
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How about the terrible battery life after upgrading to iOS7? Will there ever be a fix for that?
My iPhone 5 is now getting about 8hrs instead of the usual 10hrs I got with iOS6.
Are you speaking about 8 hr OF USAGE ????
My iPhone 5 after iOS 7 upgrade lasts no more than 5 hr ..... Grrrr
#GyroGate
The confirmed this is an issue, great.
What about the problems with the Gyro/Compass/Level on the 5s's?
Having a compass that's 20 or more degrees off and a level that reads wrong on flat surfaces is not an issue?
The confirmed this is an issue, great.
What about the problems with the Gyro/Compass/Level on the 5s's?
Having a compass that's 20 or more degrees off and a level that reads wrong on flat surfaces is not an issue?
iMessage working fine after this easy fix
All 3 of the iPhone 4S phones in my family had this issue following an update to iOS 7 early on after its release. I noticed that when I tried to send a message to another known iPhone, I would get a delivery failure notice. Holding down on the message bubble would give me the option to send as SMS but I wanted to be able to send by iMessage to other iPhone users. Since implementing this simple fix on all 3 phones, we have had no issues using iMessage.
Here is what worked for us. Give it a try and it doesn't require changing of network settings or resetting your phone! After upgrading, you must set up iMessage like your starting from scratch.
Go to Settings/Messages/turn on iMessage(if not already on)/tap use your apple ID for iMessage/enter your apple ID and password/tap sign in/choose which phone number or emails you want to use for iMessage.
Here is the apple.com link. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
http://www.apple.com/ios/messages/
Would love to hear your feedback if it works for you!
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I applied this fix roughly a week ago and all is still working fine!
All 3 of the iPhone 4S phones in my family had this issue following an update to iOS 7 early on after its release. I noticed that when I tried to send a message to another known iPhone, I would get a delivery failure notice. Holding down on the message bubble would give me the option to send as SMS but I wanted to be able to send by iMessage to other iPhone users. Since implementing this simple fix on all 3 phones, we have had no issues using iMessage.
Here is what worked for us. Give it a try and it doesn't require changing of network settings or resetting your phone!
After upgrading, you must set up iMessage like your starting from scratch.Go to Settings/Messages/turn on iMessage(if not already on)/tap use your apple ID for iMessage/enter your apple ID and password/tap sign in/choose which phone number or emails you want to use for iMessage.
Here is the apple.com link. Scroll to the bottom of the page.
http://www.apple.com/ios/messages/
Would love to hear your feedback if it works for you!
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I applied this fix roughly a week ago and all is still working fine!
None implied.
You would be right if you took Webster's second definition for percent: "a part of a whole". Not if you take the first definition of the word, which is "one part in a hundred". That's what trusting Math and English over Marketing 101 will get me.
Come to think of it, that's in a similar vein as Sammy cheating on the Note 3 performance test, isn't it? Sneaky Apple...
iMessage is a much more complicated protocol than AIM, with multi-device delivery and end-to-end encryption. That makes it "finicky"-- there's lots of stuff that can break. Since the temporary fix involves resetting the network settings, I'm suspecting there's a subtle issue with key generation, storage or exchange. It'll be fixed.
How am I making up statistics? All I am trying to prove is that a large amount of users can be experiencing the issue when it fact is it only a fraction of a percent.
Assuming 100,000,000 million people, out of the 200,000,000 million iOS devices floating around the world are using iMessages, this is not including Mac users as well, .5% (a fraction of a percent) is still affecting over 500,000 people. This could very well be accurate. You are talking about extremely large numbers, so a fraction of a percent of a large number is still in fact a large number, so it is entire plausibly.
I guess that "fraction of a percent" must all live near me, because EVERYBODY with an iPhone that I know is having problems. I hope Mavericks doesn't suck as bad iOS7. If this were my first exposure into Apple I'd have never become a fan. Just ridiculous.
I agree 100%. I don't know anyone that has had this problem. iMessage has been fine for me, my family and friends. So, i'm sure its very few people having the issue. Just like the so-called motion sickness issue. Thats the most BS issue of them all. If you get motion sickness from the slight motion on your phone you are staring at your phone waaaaaayyy longer than you need to be.
That could be 2 people for all we know.
I do not know anyone with the issue (a few others have said the same thing in this thread) but that doesn't mean I can make statements that cover everyone else.
140,000,000 people use iMessage. Apple is fixing the problem
Regarding the iMessage problems, if you double-click on the iMessage message that has failed you get the option to 'send as text message' which has worked every time for me.
The unfortunate thing with this work around is that you don't always know if the message failed to send. The message not delivered indicator only showed up in my messages after I rebooted the phone, otherwise it appeared to be stuck in a "sending" mode.
I've been having issues getting a 4s back in with the iMessages. I've tried everything I have found so far & this is what I end up getting every time. That includes signing out & resetting iMessage & this is what I continue to get.
Next stop Genius Bar? Does this seem like something they'll help with?
Next stop Genius Bar? Does this seem like something they'll help with?
It may actually have been the restart that follows the update that did it for you, since this has been reported as at least a temporary fix.
Glad they are at least acknowledging its an issue. Be warned tho the fix is pointless tho. I did the whole reset your network settings yesterday and it was fine for about 24 hrs but once again iMessages are stuck 'sending' . Not going to waste my time resetting my network setting again (and possibly daily) annoying to have to re-input all my work wifi and home codes again, plus other wifi setting for local places, friends houses etc. Have switched off iMessages in the mean time, hope the update is released within the next few days.