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Confuzzeled23

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Hey everyone,

I have an iPhone 5 and an iPad Mini both running 6.1.2. I am having strange issues with imessage.

Sporadically it will ask for my Apple ID on one device and the other will state ipad has added the following addresses to messages. However it has been working fine.

Also at times they are not syncing correctly. An example last night I had a conversation on my iPhone. Then when I looked at my ipad. I had all the messages from the person I was talking to but none of my messages were there. Just one side of the conversation. Then my ipad asked for my password and my iPhone said the addresses have been added to my ipad.

This is peculiar because I was using my ipad earlier in the day perfectly fine to imessage.

Also at times it will do the same thing vice versa on my phone. At other times it will not let me send at all and I have to turn imessage off and on.

Both devices are running fresh installs of iOS6.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Hope you can help!
 
Yes this has been happening to me for the last couple of days. It is even doing it on my Imac as well. Not sure what the problem is. Perhaps apple is updating their imessage servers.
 
Hey everyone,

I have an iPhone 5 and an iPad Mini both running 6.1.2. I am having strange issues with imessage.

Sporadically it will ask for my Apple ID on one device and the other will state ipad has added the following addresses to messages. However it has been working fine.

Also at times they are not syncing correctly. An example last night I had a conversation on my iPhone. Then when I looked at my ipad. I had all the messages from the person I was talking to but none of my messages were there. Just one side of the conversation. Then my ipad asked for my password and my iPhone said the addresses have been added to my ipad.

This is peculiar because I was using my ipad earlier in the day perfectly fine to imessage.

Also at times it will do the same thing vice versa on my phone. At other times it will not let me send at all and I have to turn imessage off and on.

Both devices are running fresh installs of iOS6.

Anyone else experiencing this?

Hope you can help!

Similar problem here except any conversation I have on my iphone isn't showing up in my MacBook or my iPad. When I went into iMessage preferences it also doesn't show my phone# anymore on the iPad or the MacBook. This all started yesterday. I've tried turning it off and back on and logging out and logging back in but it won't show my phone# on either of those devices.
 
Set up iPhone first using AppleID (phone number and any email addresses) - you can also set up FaceTime so both will sync with iPad
Once you have that set up as you desire, go to iPad. Sign completely out of iMessage and FaceTime.
Reboot and sign back in on iPad with same AppleID used on phone. You will get pop-ups on both iPad and iPhone - be sure and OK them.

A reboot might be required to finish sync.

This should work.
 
Found this on Apple's support forums and it worked for me.

Make sure you are on WiFi and have your mac on.

1. Open Messages app
2. Go to preferences.
3. Sign out of the iMessage account.
4. Go to your iPhone, Sign Out of both iMessage and Facetime. Anything within the Message and Facetime section on the iPhone. TURN IT ALL OFF.
5. Restart the iPhone.
6. Turn on FaceTime & then turn on iMessage in your iPhone only.
7. Once the iPhone activates FaceTime & iMessage. You should receive a popup on your Mac.
8. The pop up will list the e-mails and not the phone number. No worries..
9. Go into Messages preferences and log into the iMessage account.

Once logged into Messages and the iMessages account, you should received 2 or 3 pop-ups that say the phone number was added to FaceTime and iMessage...

After doing all that, my phone numer started showing up in messages on my Mac and on my iPad so everything seems to be working as it should now.
 
I have done the "reset" procedure as described in the post above this one, and yet thru a normal day if I restart my iphone, or ipad, or Imac. (doesn't matter which device, they all produce the same problem) it seems to cause my imessage to stop working on the iMac, and I have to go thru the entire reset procedure again.

It's becoming a pain in the butt to have to reset those settings everytime, when of my devices needs to be restarted or shut down for the day.

Is anyone else still having issues with their imessage in this fashion?
 
I am able to send/receive iMessages from most of my contacts except my girlfriend's. We are both on a wireless network.

I have reset my general settings several times and it works fine afterwards. However randomly, my phone reverts back to sending SMS - even while both of us are on a network. This is very frustrating and I cannot pin point the exact problem. I am beginning to think it is apple or AT&T's problem.

I found that deleting the conversation and starting a new one also works.
 
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