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Some Experiencing Delays and Failures When Sending iMessages [Update: Fixed]
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At least this explains why I sent an iMessage Friday night, and it didn't reach the recipient until Yesterday. She was a tad confused
Stuff like this is why I turned off iMessage completely on my iPhone. Messages kept getting stuck on "sending" and I couldn't take it anymore. It would be a great service if it worked properly.
Exactly. A friend of mine has no texting plan. The extra $30 a month isn't worth it for him. So he relies on iMessage for simple messaging when he needs it (to other Apple devices, obviously). He was slapped with charges from AT&T last month because the iMessages didn't go through, and were then sent as SMS. (He has since turned off that function.)
This wouldn't be as much of an issue if it didn't take like 3-5 minutes to try and send it as an iMessage before failing. And if it would default over to text messaging like it normally does when it failes. Mine failes and then prompts me to either try again or send as text when normally it just sends as a text when there is a problem
That used to be the case, but for some reason it's not doing that now. Now it tries to send for a few minutes, and then gives up trying and displays the exclamation point badge.
"I emailed Apple PR about something and asked my dog the same question. Where am I most likely to get a useful answer? From @jdalrymple, obvs"Yeah, I'm sure they'll get back to MacRumors right away.
https://twitter.com/jlgolson/status/247761248610029568
Apple needs to get their iCloud act together. First email, and now messages. I want to close my AOL addresses once and for all and make the move to only iCloud, but dang they keep having these outages. My messages are working for the time being, but about a month ago, I had this same problem with iMessage and it was several weeks before it was resolved.
Your friend should have changed the settings so that the texts wouldn't go through ans SMS if iMessage was unavailable.
Never worked properly between mine and my partner's iPhones......until we are both in the home and connected to Wi-Fi!!!
How is a large network outage NOT news? Would you rather get more guesswork and speculation on iPhone 6? I wouldn't . This was relevant to my interest,
last week I actually had iMessage say it delivered a message to my wife, but she looked at her phone and lo and behold, no message.
Successfully iMessaging my girlfriend's 3rd gen iPod touch from my iPhone 4 on iOS 6. Also getting read receipts correctly.
This isn't new
iMessage has been ****ed up on a semi-weekly basis for me for its entire existence. I can't count how often I've had to "reboot" iMessage (that is, go into the accounts and disconnect and reconnect the account on all of my devices).
It's less than impressive.
iMessage has been ****ed up on a semi-weekly basis for me for its entire existence. I can't count how often I've had to "reboot" iMessage (that is, go into the accounts and disconnect and reconnect the account on all of my devices).
It's less than impressive.
It works fine on the iPhone. But on the mac, every time i start sending messages it gives me an error, and it hasn't worked well since the launch of ML. They said they fixed it in 10.8.1, but they haven't. Goddamin it's a effing IM service, not some sci-fi stuff. Never seen an IM service having that much problems.
In the past seven days I was without mail for two days, unable to complete Software Update for one day, and now iMessage isn't working.
I survived dotMac and MobileMe. I guess I'll survive iCloud. But lordy, they must be running out of feet to shoot themselves in.
I survived dotMac and MobileMe. I guess I'll survive iCloud. But lordy, they must be running out of feet to shoot themselves in.
No worries with the iPhone 5.
When iMessage fails, it will default to an S3 and send a regular text.
D.
When iMessage fails, it will default to an S3 and send a regular text.
D.