How I fixed "imessage waiting for activation"
Hi people.
I recently was having that problem with my iphone saying "waiting for activation." All i did to fix it was re enter my appl ID when i switched i message on. This solved the problem immediatley. Give it a try?
For others... Back up, Erase all content and settings, Restore iPhone (downloads fresh iOS), restore from backup. Should fix. You will not lose texts, etc.
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How to fix: facetime waiting for activation
Iphone 4 on ATT network. My facetime used to work OK before. Recently I noticed that the facetime icon disappeared when in a call, and from the contacts. I found out that in the Settings facetime was off. However, whenever I try to toggle to ON, it stays on waiting for activation, then it fails. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.(MMS and SMS work with no problem).
Thankswifi is fine, apple servers r to busy to effectively use facetime and imessages right now is all. and activation error is due to high server traffic as well. keep trying or wait, thats it
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100% IOS7 Fix for (IMessage Waiting for Activation)
Hi there,
I believe i have found the fix regarding the IOS7 IMessage Waiting for activation issue.
So far i have advised a few friends and everyone of them has said it has fixed the problem
Follow the below, as i would be keen to find out if this works for you all:
Go to Settings>Messages>Send & Receive,
Deselect all email addresses.
Go back one screen and turn off "IMessages"
Go back another screen and select the "Face Time" settings
Deselect all email addresses and turn off facetime.
Wait 5 minutes, turn on Imessages ensuring no email addresses are selected
It should then have your mobile number ticked, and IMessages will now be working
Do the same for facetime and you are done
Hope this helps :-)backup the device with itunes.
Restore the device with itunes and set up as new.
Sign into the facetime and imessage to activate it.
After that is done and activation is good.
Restore from the backup.
Then make sure to sign into facetime and imessage again and you should be good to go -
My iphone 5 randomly began restarting regularly. Since when it has been on my iMessage is unavalibale, when I go on the settings it says waiting for activation when I try to activate with my apple id it says 'could not sign in. Please check your network settings an try again' this is also happening with face time how can I fix this?
Try backing up then restoring your device on iTunes via your computer, a few other with the same issue have done this and it has fixed the problem for them so it might be worth a shot :)
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Iphone 3 doesn't send or receive text Imessage waiting for activation
my iphone 3 doesn;t send or receive text messages under settings, Imessage is waiting for activation. I have downloaded Itunes again but still doesnt work
Do you have iMessage on? I couldn't send iMessages and still don't know how to fix it. I switched it off and the phone started sending plain "green" SMS.
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Imessage waiting for activation for hours
hi.. i have iphone 4, my sim card is working in my country, recieving at my Apple ID email and my phone number.. working finee
then i traveled to another country and now there is no service.. and no carrier is allowed.. donno why..
so im using my imessage which is working while roaming to my phone number and my email...
but my mistake i turned it off.. and now its waiting for activation..
im afraid that it needs my sims signal to work and recieve at my phone number..
coz until now its verifying BUT NO SERVICE.. and i reeeeeeally need my imessage..
what to doooooooo??
it has been for hours.. WAITING FOR ACTIVATION and VERIFYING my phone number.. NOTE:- no service, signal and CANT FIX IT...Ifit has hours trying to activate the iMessage, restart your iPhone, see... Use the Home button with the Sleep button, press both at the same time and keep doing it, the screen will turn off, but you have to keep doing it until the "Apple" appears again in the screen, if that doesn't work then just turn it off and turn it on again as you should usually do it.
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IMessage waiting for activation. Phone number not listed in Send and Receive at?
I'm going to try to be as descriptive as possible, as I'm not too sure what else I can possibly do to resolve this issue.
3 or 4 days ago I requested a number change through my provider. Not knowing that I had to turn off iMessage whilst waiting for the change to occur, I left it on.
Later that day my friends were complaining that I was sending them texts from two different numbers, one being my new number, one being my old number. The thing is, I'm using the exact same SIM card and it's a little unusual to have two numbers for one SIM. I then realised that iMessage is ONLY registering my iTunes e-mail address and OLD phone number as an option to 'Send and Receive at'. I have spoken to Optus (my provider in Aust.) and Apple, I have gone into an Apple store, had the phone replaced, restored newtwork settings, restored phone altogether, turned on/off iMessage and Facetime, checked date and time, made sure my correct number is listed in Settings > Phone, etc etc etc I've done EVERYTHING listed in all forums that I've read from people experiencing this same issue.
I can choose to select my old phone number in iMessage, and can then send messages to others using iMessage from the old number, and if I switch it off, I'm then using SMS to send messages, and it's from my new number again! It's very frustrating not having all features on my phone working correctly.
If I switch iMessages and Facetime on, not using my Apple ID to sign in, it simply says 'waiting for activation' and after a few hours, tells me it was unsucessful and to try again. I'm all out of options now, Optus don't know what to do, Apple don't know what to do and I don't know what else to do! It's been 4 days! Someone please help!?Just thought I'd let everybody know how it finally got resolved 1 week later!
After trying absolutely everything, and I mean EVERYTHING that Apple support, apple forums etc told me to do, the only thing that worked was turning iMessage off, waiting for at least 24 hours at then turning iMessage back on.
It activated itself within a few minutes, no dramas at all!
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IMessage: waiting for activation/activation unsucessful
I've recently switched from beta to iOS 7.0.2 and since I've upgraded, my iMessage has stopped working. I've logged in to my apple account receiving the error "Could not sign in" othertimes I'm able to login but my number isn't checked, just my email. Othertimes it's just stuck on "Waiting for activation..."
Solutions I've tried to no avail:
Restarting my phone
Resetting my network settings
Restoring my phone and restoring to an older backupBump.
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Imessage waiting for activation - tried everything
Yesterday my iMessage turned itself off and whenever I've tried to turn it back on it's been stuck on 'waiting for activation'. I have tried every single 'solution' I could find including restoring the phone to factory settings and everything Apple recommend but absolutely nothing is working!
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IMessage (waiting for activation) problem
Hi,,,
Last night i changed my apple id password & all thing was fine
imessage service was activated with my phone number and all thing fine before i changed my password
after that it switched off and reswitched on by itself again but it remains on waiting for activation !!!
i ereased my phone to original and reswitched it on, also the same problem although it works on my friend phone with same networks operator
Need Help ,,, ThanksYou're welcome.
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If you're still unable to resolve the symptoms above after performing these troubleshooting steps, please contact Apple for assistance. -
IMessage "Waiting for activation" after password change
Last night, I changed my password of my apple ID since I was constatly receiving emails for password change when I didn't do anything. Now, for some reason, I already wrote my new password on the iTunes and even got a new app but the iMessage doesnt activate and stays "Waiting for activation..." for hours.
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I just bought my first iphone yesterday...I am trying to activate my message but all it says is that it is waiting for activation...could you please help me?
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Ad now I have tried to start it back up every time i do so, i get a msg from optus saying "a messgae you tried to send has failed as you out of credit for that message type" I am also hooked up to my house wi-fi, so it's not my internet connection..
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I'm just wondering if i can get some help?
thanks
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Bump.
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