IMessage delay IOS8

I have been having an issue with iMessage since I updated to IOS 8 on my iPhone 5, then upgraded my phone to then iPhone 6.
I might be in the middle of a conversation on iMessage then I notice the person did not respond to me, but might have sent me another message that I did receive, when I turn my phone off and back on then I receive that message on with the timestamp on it which could have been sent hours ago.
I attached a screenshot of a iMessage as an example, I had to reboot my phone to receive the message from the previous day, but as you can see I was able to receive other messages. So far I did a full reset and did a restore and same problem. I do have the most current IOS 8.0.2.

I'm having this same problem with my iPhone 5. It didn't appear until I upgraded to 7.1.1.

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Basically. incoming iMessages can be delayed by up to 15 minutes. Sometimes I'll get a bulk of 5-10 messages suddenly appear on my phone. Sometimes without a 'Text Tone' alert..
Regardless of being at home or out and about. WiFi, 3G, anything...
Have tried with three separate iPhones now, multiple sim cards and the issue remains. The Genius at the Apple Store seemed as confused as anyone.
I have plenty space on my phone. As much as 50% space free at times. Still no fix.
Hard reboots. Reinstalled from backups. New iPhone. Nothing..
Absolutely stuck. Happy to post more info if required.
Any ideas?

I was wondering (in my idle time) if this problem couldn't be simply related to my Apple Account? Lag between sending iMessages to my friends on other servers perhaps? I've been suffering this problem for almost 6 months now, and it's really putting me off continuing with Apple when the iPhone 6 rolls out.

Images do not display in iMessage in iOS8

I have an iPhone 6 and iPad 2 running iOS8, and both have the same issue.
Image attachments do not display in iMessage, but just show a blank frame with the file name and "?"
Interestingly, it appears to have got worse since Friday.
On Friday, it was just images from someone I know with iOS6 that were not displaying. At that point it showed "downloading" on the icon. Tapping "details' showed the image.
Then others started to disappear from my iPhone, but iPad was fine.
This morning, images don't show on either device in iMessage, even if looking in the details tab.
Have tried logging out of iMessage, turning off iMessage - no joy.
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IMessage delay when unlock phone to see message?

Why is there a delay when I receive an iMessage to my phone? I'll get the message on my lock screen but when I unlock and go in the message isn't there. I have to go in and out twice before it shows in iMessage.

I'm having this same problem with my iPhone 5. It didn't appear until I upgraded to 7.1.1.

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It might just be a coincidence, but I seemed to have no problem until I got here to a hotel (work trip). So maybe it has something to do with changing networks? Haven't been back home yet to test this theory though, and still having the problem, although it's intermittent.
Another thing is, once I get started in a "conversation", the problem goes away, but if there's a lull of more than a few minutes, it seems to crop up again. Some weird pinging issue? I'm not that network-savvy...
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CONFIGURAZIONE IMESSAGE CON IOS8

QUANDO VADO A COLLEGARMI AD IMESSAGE, DOPO AVER FATTO L'AGGIORNAMENTO A IOS8, MI DICE CHE NON E' POSSIBILE ACCEDERE, VERIFICA LA CONNESSIONE DI RETE, MA LA RETE C'E' PERCHE' STO NAVIGANDO.
MI PUO' AIUTARE QUALCUNO

Taylor, thanks for the hint. You may be correct. The very small, very feint grey text on the Yosemite page says : SMS requires an iPhone with iOS 8.1.
I suppose that's not available yet, I'm on 8.0.2 and no update is available. I'll wait.

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I apologize, I'm a bit unclear on the exact nature of your question. If you need to change the association between your phone number and your email address/Apple ID in Messages, you may find the following article helpful:
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When I am sending iMessages from my phone number on my iPhone they send fine. But when I receive a message I hear my iPad ring, then sometimes almost 29 minutes lat my iPhone finally notifies me of the new message. That's not the weird part though. If I hear my iPad ring, then unlock my phone I have an alert badge on the messages app but my phone still won't vibrate or ring for another few minutes. So I can reply to the message but I'm still not notified of it immediately. I'd like to receive message notifications instantly on my iPhone first as that is what I'm using for texting. My text messages through the cell provider come through right away so why is it that my iMessages take so long to notify my? Both the iPad and iPhone are on wifi so it's not the network speed
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Figured it out:
She recently enabled iMessages on her iPad. All the messages were sending there...but what still confuses me is that the messages went through even when she didn't have wifi on either devices...
ah well. I'll save that for another day. I've solved my frustrations lol. Thanks for the help!

Imessage delay

I have the iPhone 3GS which has iMessage. The past few days when I go out of the house and without the wifi, I noticed that if another iMessage user sends me a iMessage, i don't get it.I have the cellular data on and the sms option on as well. Today for example, I was receiving and sending out iMessages to one of my contacts and it was working perfectly. However, another contact of mine with iMessage tried sending me at least 3 iMessages and I never received them until hours after. Im not sure why Im able to receive and send iMessages to one contact, but not the other without being connected to the wifi. Suggestions anyone ??

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Lack of control over iMessage

The purpose of this post is less of a question and more of a collection of the frustrations I have had with trying to use iMessage.
First off, the idea of iMessage seems great. Transparently allow users end to end encryption of their messages over a data network without any need for the user to do anything but turn iMessage "on". Have multiple iOS devices? Even better. Link them together with your Apple ID and your iMessages will show up on all devices!
For me, where iMessage starts to break down is with the multiple iOS device support and the promise of communication where your originating device is transparent to the recipient. Maybe what I want iMessage to be and what it is are different things, but I fail to see why the system should struggle to do what it is I am trying to do.
#1 - the inability to disable my phone # as a valid iMessage address on my active iPhone 5S is something I just can't understand. I'd love to be able to have standard SMS tied to my phone #, but have an e-mail address I can give out if someone wants to iMessage me. Let us use both! Don't force us to pick between iMessage and SMS! Right now I have to use an old iPhone 3GS I have laying around as my iMessage device (using an e-mail address), with iMessage disabled on my 5S. I admit this plan is a tad convoluted, but I am a Google Voice user. I have a subset of people I interact with that I do NOT give my real phone number. I give them my Google Voice number. Of course, Google Voice has multiple limitations with SMS (no emoji, no MMS, no group MMS). What I do is give these users my iMessage address as a workaround to Google Voice's limitations. This way I can send and receive messages from these users, with no loss in functionality, and they do not get my real phone number. Right now, the only way to successfully accomplish this is to carry a second Wi-Fi only device with no SMS functionality. The lack of SMS functionality is a requirement to make sure that #2 and #3 below don't happen...
#2 - I'm sure someone out there is saying "Just enable iMessage on your 5S and set your e-mail address as your source address!" This idea sounds like it would work in theory, but in practice it tends to fall flat on its face. Most worrysome, I have absolutely no way to look at an iMessage before I send it and see what source address I am sending from. It is like I am flying blind. I can't fathom why a selectible "source address" box or something doesn't appear once you enable multiple iMessage sources on your device. On top of that, I've had multiple occassions where I will have my e-mail address selected as my "source address", but the recieipent will receive an iMessage from me that comes from my real phone number, not my e-mail address. I'm aware of the very limited manner in which Apple supports what I am trying to do here. If I leave a specific iMessage thread open on my device and respond to it later, the recipient SHOULD see the conversation continue from the same source address. In either scenario (keeping the same conversation open, or deleting it and creating a new one with my e-mail address selected as the source), the recipient will occassionaly recieve iMessages from my phone number. How difficult it is to switch between source addresses leads me to believe that Apple did not design iMessage with this scenario in mind. Very strange to give us the ability to choose the source address, but have it very hard to get to, and have no way to ensure that it changed. Also strange to give us the ability to make a choice between source addresses, but then occassionally ignore that choice.
#3 - The "Send as SMS" toggle - another great idea that just doesn't work in practice. Allowing the iOS device to fall back to SMS when iMessage is unavailable for some reason is a great way for your average Joe to continue his conversation over iMessage or SMS and have no break in communication. Only thing he might notice is the switching of his messages from blue to green back to blue. I also get why Apple put this toggle in - what it SHOULD do is disable SMS as a failback for iMessage. Problem is, it just doesn't work. Seperate from #2 above, I have had scenarios where I am communicating with someone via iMessage. My source address is my e-mail address. Sending to a phone number. The iMessage fails for one reason or another. If I hit "retry", my iPhone will send the message as an SMS, even though "Send as SMS" is turned off. It won't even ask me if I want to try it as an iMessage again. I've also had it happen where my button changes from blue to green, and I can't get it back to blue. If I send a message while the button is green, an SMS is sent from my phone number (again with "Send as SMS turned off"). And here is a real head-scratcher for you: Say I have an iMessage conversation with my e-mail address as the source. I lose iMessage connectivity and my button goes green. If/when I get the blue button back, what iMessage source am I using now? It is entirely possible that my last communicaiton was an SMS from my phone number, so what source does iMessage pick to continue the conversation? I have no idea, and there really is no excuse for this lack of visibility into the source address.
#4 - iMessage registration ***** - One of the reasons I hate enabling iMessage on my phone number is how inconsistent the whole expereince is. After I turn it on, some iOS users see me as an iMessage receipient, while others see me as an SMS recipient. I've had entirely too many of these scenarios where my number is stuck in limbo between the two. Even worse is when I turn iMessage off. In some cases, it takes DAYS before some iOS devices realize that I am no longer an iMessage receipient, while other iOS users can tell instantly. I get no notificaitons about any iMessages that I lose during the time that some devices are incorrectly showing my number as still having iMessage enabled. Unfortunately, I get the most consitstent expereince with iMessage turned off.
#5 - iMessage delays - This one may not be Apple's fault, but it is still frustrating. I have iMessage enabled on my phone number. I am conversing with someone via iMessage. Source and destination are both phone numbers. I enter an area of questionable data coverage. Person on the other end sends me an iMessage. Because of poor data coverage, I do not receive it. You would think that I would get the missing iMessage as soon as I regain data coverage. Unfortunately, in my experience, Apple has some sort of "message retry" timer on iMessages that are not delivered the first time. It seems that these retries can sometimes be hours after the initial iMessage was sent. Some additional transparency and/or control here would be welcome.
In summary, it appears that iMessage works best when it is left alone. Trying to use the "advanced" functions provided can lead to unpredictable and unexpected results. iMessage could be even more powerful than it is today...if Apple would give us the control we need over the product.
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Thank you for the responses.
I wanted to get my ideas out in the open in the forums prior to submitting them to Apple as feature requests. I was curious if other people have had experiences similar to mine with iMessage.
I admit I went into quite a lot of detail, but that is mainly because my thoughts on the subject are still a bit unfocused. The current solution is to "disable iMessage", but I really do want to find a way for the product to work for me. Summarized, I have 2 seperate but related issues:
#1 - Allow iMessage to be used WITHOUT forcing the phone number to be iMessage as well. I can submit this request to Apple. Does anyone know why this is currently a forced setting? I can't think of any drawbacks to allowing users to disable it...
#2 - Fix broken / confusing beahviors of the current iMessage implementation, such as lack of visibility into the source iMessage address.
Thoughts? Opinions? Thanks.
Network25

IOS forces use of iMessage

After "upgrade", I can no longer send plain old SMS text to other iPhones - disabling iMessage results in error message that iMessage must be enabled. I've tried network resets and toggling on/off iMessage and Facetime to no avail. If I toggle off cell data, however, the SMS goes through fine. But why the heck should I have to kill all cell data just to quit using iMessage.
What we've noticed is that iMessage delivery is slooooowwwwwww. Even messages labeled on sending device as "delivered" aren't showing up on the recipient's device with consistent regularity. We stopped using iMessage as a result sometime in iOS7 and want to kill it in iOS8, but can't.

BobbyD solution not the problem and not helpful at all. I understand the messaging technology and since disabling cell data does result in successful SMS transmission, I'm still left with the conclusion that Apple did something with iMessage in iOS8 that makes it hard (and maybe in some cases impossible) to disable. iMessage itself is awful - some of my iMessages are being delivered 24 hours after I send them, again even though they're marked as "delivered" when sent. Looking like I'm rolling back to iOS7.
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The problems suddenly showed up and were not related with an IOS upgrade or the like.
I had a temporary fix (cleaning memory).
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I am texting to a number of phones with different IOS and with same or different carriers.
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The discussion boards are full with comments of users experiencing the same problem,
worldwide and independent of carrier.
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Where may I be able to contact and speak with a prepaid representative? Strictly through phone calls? (I am at work 12 hours a day)
And I apologize for posting in the wrong area - I saw Apple support so I went here.
I'm almost certain my phone is the problem. I have gone through resetting the network settings a dozen times on my phone, even did it on my dad's. Now my texts are beginning to do the same when I text my fiance.
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