I purchased an iphone 4 yesterday. I can not send texts. imessage setting says "waiting for activation. "
I have received some texts from family who are on the same account and also from spammers but cannot receive from others and cannot send.
If you bought it yesterday your service provider (orange, voadfone etc) can take up to a week I believe, depending on who you bought it from, to fully activate your phones features. However being able to receive some texts is odd as this would suggest it has been activated. If you're near the store you bought it from I would suggest going in and just asking about it, or phoning them up if you want, but otherwise you could wait a few days and see if it sorts itself out.
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Go to Settings > Messages and turn iMessage OFF.
Then go to Settings > General > Reset and tap Reset Network Settings. Your phone will restart. You will not lose any data, but you will have to re-enter any Wi-Fi network passwords.
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IMessage just says "waiting for activation" and does not work
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If you get an error when trying to activate iMessage or FaceTime - Apple Support
Per the link if it has been more than 24 hours you will need to contact Apple support.
Or update your device to IOS 8.1.3 -
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The following gives instructions for that error message, including to contact Apple support if you've tried all of the steps shown and waited 24 hours: http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268
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Yes I have turned imessage off a number of times and that does not seem to he doing the trick, and it is not delivering them then I have to press on the photo and either chose try again or send as text message, I have had the setting on to not allow sending pictures as texts (so they can only send as imessage) since I got my phone in January and it has always worked until now, I have turned that off to allow me to send them as picture messages now but it's still not working over iMessage, I have also tried it using 3G and not wifi
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One contact who has an iPhone but messaging will not send as iMessage
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But if that person did not set up an iMessage account on their iPhone, then they cannot receive any iMessages at all, only SMS text messages.
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this is a new problem on my g4. all of a sudden I can not send text messages when i am in my home. this happens on my s4 and my sons s4 but my daughter uses an iphone and she is not having this problem. i can receive texts, facebook, email etc I just can not send texts. Nothing in my house has changed except that Comcast just put in a new modem, I am not tech savvy at all so not even sure that would affect my out going texts
any suggestions would be greatHi scrappy1989,
Let's see what's causing the problem! Are you using a 3rd party messaging application? Are you having trouble sending picture and text message? Do you experience the issue with everyone you send a message to? Do you receive an error message? I look forward to hearing from you soon.
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My imessage isnt working so I turned off imessage and now its been saying "waiting for activation" and has been for a long while now? Also saying that my apple ID password is inccorrect when its not! Can anyone help me?
ThanksWhile we all have MacBooks in this forum most of us don’t have Lion. There's a Lion Support Community where everybody has Lion.You should also post this question there. https://discussions.apple.com/community/mac_os/mac_os_x_v10.7_lion
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My wife and I both have iPhone 5s, I can't send text messages to non iPhone people that I use to but iPhone people I can, My wife can send text to non iPhone numbers. I have checked and we both have the same settings. Both of our phones are up to date 7.0.4.
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Hi, why can't I use the iMessage on my iPhone? I've already had my apple id email on it but it keeps saying "waiting for activation" always like that. No progress. Could anybody help me on this? Cheers
I have an old iPod Touch with old software that can no longer be updated:
iOS version 6.1.6
I've been searching for a solution to my iMessage login problem for months and tried everything from those frustrating links and all the tips from other users.
Here is what finally worked:
1) Settings > Privacy > Location Services > On
2) Settings > General > Date & Time > Set Automatically > On
3) Reboot device until Apple logo appears
4) Settings > Messages > Sign In -
I have an iPhone 5 and updated it to iOS7 last night but now I can't use iMessage or FaceTime as it says "waiting for activation" As well as that, it won't let me use my phone number to do iMessage or FaceTime it will only let me use my apple ID which I don't want to do.
Thank you for replying. Yes I deleted the old email address..
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I just updated my iphone to IOS 7 and cannot get my imessage to work, it keeps saying "waiting for activation" nothing i have read online has helped me try to fix the problem. why is it doing this and how can i fix it?
Here's a good troubleshooting article about imessage "waiting for activation".
http://support.apple.com/kb/TS4268 -
I can not send text messages to non apple phones from my ipad
every since updated my iPad to latest software I can not send text messages to people with non Apple phones. When I type their name in it turns red. How do I fix it?
Hey angelafairfax,
Thanks for the question. If you are experiencing issues with iOS 8 Handoff and Continuity features, you can follow the steps in this resource:
Get help using Continuity with iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/TS5458
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