iMessage photos not downloading

[captbunch18]

Ok...

iPhone 6 plus, running 8.0.2.

When someone sends a picture to me via iMessage, all I get is the downloading box. However, if I go to details, I can see the image.

Did I do this by setting something up wrong or is there a fix??

 

[Trebuin]

Ok...

iPhone 6 plus, running 8.0.2.

When someone sends a picture to me via iMessage, all I get is the downloading box. However, if I go to details, I can see the image.

Did I do this by setting something up wrong or is there a fix??

I saw this yesterday from someone else, could you try force closing the app, restart your phone, then open it. Force close: double click home button and swipe closed. Let us know if that works. I think it may have been due to iCloud being down yesterday.

 

[captbunch18]

I saw this yesterday from someone else, could you try force closing the app, restart your phone, then open it. Force close: double click home button and swipe closed. Let us know if that works. I think it may have been due to iCloud being down yesterday.

that seemed to work, but now my iMessages that I am sending are going from my email and not phone...

 

[Trebuin]

that seemed to work, but now my iMessages that I am sending are going from my email and not phone...

There's a setting for that, give me a min.

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that seemed to work, but now my iMessages that I am sending are going from my email and not phone...

Go to Settings, Messages, Send & Receive, Start new conversations from, and select your phone number. That should control the priority there.

 

[captbunch18]

There's a setting for that, give me a min.

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Go to Settings, Messages, Send & Receive, Start new conversations from, and select your phone number. That should control the priority there.

ok..I will try that. Thanks for your help.

 

[captbunch18]

Seems to have worked.

 

[chmuriel]

same issue...

having the same problem... after closing messages app and restarting phone now the "downloading" image has been replaced by a question mark.

 

[captbunch18]

having the same problem... after closing messages app and restarting phone now the "downloading" image has been replaced by a question mark.

It is a Question mark. However, if they resend the image, it came through on mine.

 

[chmuriel]

just ran across this post on the apple forums:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/6542242

I reset my network settings and images started coming in fine after that, it didn't fix the ones that didn't download correctly, but I'm ok with that.