iMessage problems after restore

[chuckd83]

I restored my phone 2 days ago and ever since, iMessage has had problems. iMessage used to send via my phone number. Now it will only send SMS via my phone number and I have to change the send/receive to my email in order to send an iMessage. I don't receive iMessages from people because they are sending it to my phone number like before.

 

[wongster]

do you have both your email and phone number checked in the send and receive from? you might have to start a new conversation with the person. when i switched to the iPhone 6, my iMessage were being sent from my email and some people didn't know who i was. started a new conversation and it went back to my number.