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iMessages not sending

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SaMaster14

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Aug 23, 2010
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Not sure why, but today I tried to iMessage a couple of people on WiFi with my iPod Touch and on both I got a 'Message Failure' with a red exclamation next to the message.

I thought it might have been a wifi issue so I went on my iPad on 3G only and tried sending the messages. Same thing happened...

On both devices I turned iMessage off and turned it back on, verifying my email/password and restarted the devices. Tried again... nothing.

Any help? Anyone else having these problems?
 
Is this a recent issue for you too? My iMessage was working for a while (since iOS5 was released), and it just recently started to act up on me. It was working with iOS 5.0.1 too, so that software update didn't do anything.
 
SaMaster14 said:
Is this a recent issue for you too? My iMessage was working for a while (since iOS5 was released), and it just recently started to act up on me. It was working with iOS 5.0.1 too, so that software update didn't do anything.
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yes it was just recently now that i think about but this fixes its self then gets broken again even if the other person is connected to wifi.Apple fix this!!!!!!
 
I have recently been having problem too. I feel it's nothing to do with your phone of the recoevers most mostly, I feel it's Apples server which is the problem.
I seem to get messages clumped together too which is highly annoying. You'll be talking to someone then it seems as if they are ignoring you, but then get several messages all in one go. Server problem !
 
Me too.I came up with this problem..I just can't send any message.I don't know what's wrong i hope it's apple's fault so they can fix this.
 
I've had this problem for a few weeks now.
I can send to peoples apple ids but not their phone numbers.
I'm only receiving imessages from people that use my apple id, if they use my phone number the message doesn't come through.
I'm also stuck on "waiting for activation.."

Full restore did nothing but I've read on other forums that people that have restored from a backup which is older than about a month have had some luck.

Sounds like an apple server problem. I've given up on playing around with the settings, hopefully this is fixed in 5.0.2.
 
Also had the same problem. I can send text messages but iMessages are intermittent in their sending / delivering and in particular their speed. I am on the O2 network in the UK. Many of my friends report the same issue - on various network. Presume it must be some sort of apple problem?
 
Maybe is an ipod/ipad to iphone problem. I only send iMessages to people with iPhones (so I send to their phone #s).

Hopefully this gets sorted out quickly. It's quite annoying.
 
I also have had trouble with iMessages from the start, it works randomly sometimes won't send or sends hours later, and I'm on WiFi almost all of the time. It's so troublesome that I've just reverted to switching back to SMS permanently! Maybe Apple can't handle the volume of iMessages.
 
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 5_0_1 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/534.46 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/5.1 Mobile/9A405 Safari/7534.48.3)

I don't know if this is related, but iCloud may have had an outage in the past 30 minutes. My iCloud mail wasn't being pushed and had to be fetched manually.

Edit: Several email requests I made 30 minutes ago are now being pushed in one at a time like a backlog still exists.
 
I tried seeing if a sync with my Mac would fix the problem, but that didn't work either. And I tried adding new email addresses and turning iMessage on and off and still nothing.

Very odd... just stopped working out of the blue.

Maybe a new iOS update will fix this?
 
Well, did a little test and it looks like I can send iPad to iPad (and iPod touch to iPad) perfectly fine. But when sending from my iPad or iPod to an iPhone it never works anymore.
 
Three days ago I couldn't send any iMessages from my iPad. Rebooted, changed DNS servers, disabled and reenabled iMessages... Nothing.

I was tethered, but it had worked in the past. Once I got back home, and on regular wifi, everything worked again.

Haven't had the problem since.

Is there any way to check the state of Apples servers? I assume that iMessage is being piped through their machines.
 
BubbaJones said:
Is there any way to check the state of Apples servers? I assume that iMessage is being piped through their machines.
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I would be interested in this also as it seems push mail functioning timely is dependant on their servers too.
 
bcburrows said:
Also had the same problem. I can send text messages but iMessages are intermittent in their sending / delivering and in particular their speed. I am on the O2 network in the UK. Many of my friends report the same issue - on various network. Presume it must be some sort of apple problem?
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I'm on O2 as well and have gotten fed up with it sometimes taking up to 10 minutes to send an iMessage.

I've now had iMessage turned off for a few weeks now, back to the normal text messages!
 
Grayburn said:
I'm on O2 as well and have gotten fed up with it sometimes taking up to 10 minutes to send an iMessage.

I've now had iMessage turned off for a few weeks now, back to the normal text messages!
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That was my solution - seems to work fine now
 
Problem with imessage

I had the same problem I just changed my apple i.d. password and turned my imessage off for a minute then cut it back on and it started to work again.
 
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