IMessages delayed to iPhone only
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
Please help
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!
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some entries had    (tabs probably)
I had seen these in Quicklook at the point where the Message appeared to show double spaces after a Full Stop or Question Mark.
You are right that it have not dawned on me that I had not seen them between words.
It was TextEdit as well (Not sure why I said QuickLook)
29723AE1-6D8B-4932-8353-875164302786man, why are you here?¬†¬†Two are in testing placesn streamtypedÅË Ñ @ÑÑÑ NSMutableAttributedStringÑÑ NSAttributedStringÑÑ NSObjectÖíÑÑÑ NSMutableString ÑÑ NSString ïÑ +3man, why are you here?¬†¬†Two are in testing placesÜÑ iI 1íÑÑÑ
Part of this means the iMessages sent out.
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Messages on the Mac is trying to enclose this in Coloured Balloon (or other style) and lists a Font and it's colour
NSDictionaryïÑ i íÑòò __kIMBoldAttributeNameÜíÑÑÑ NSNumberÑÑ NSValueïÑ *ÑÑ cü ÜíÑòò __kIMFontSizeAttributeNameÜíÑùûÑÑ q† ÜíÑòò __kIMFontFamilyAttributeNameÜíÑòò Arial BlackÜíÑòò&__kIMBaseWritingDirectionAttributeNameÜíÑùû
The sync from the iOS device lists
¢†ˇÜíÑòò(__kIMMessageForegroundColorAttributeNameÜíÑòò #000000ÜíÑòò(__kIMMessageBackgroundColorAttributeNameÜíÑòò #2ba92dÜíÑòò __kIMMessagePartAttributeNameÜíÑùû¢†ÜÜÜ
( A less complicated "Balloon")
It is unlikely to be the Tab key as this changes Fields in Messages (From Text Entry spot, to Search spot, to the "To" spot.)
8:43 PM Tuesday; December 25, 2012
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No possibility to activate iMessages with my iPhone 4
Hi everibody !
I have an iPhone 4 !
I can't activate iMessages on it !!
When I'm trying I get a message that told me to verify my connection but I'm connected in 3G and Wi-fi.
I arrived to activate once but only with my email address.
When I go on the iMessages menu I can't choose my phone numer but only my email address.
Sometimes the phone number comprtement not even appears and sometimes it appears grey and with no number in it just "my phone number" wriiten !
I've tried all I find on the apple's site ! I really don't know what else I can try !!
Could you help me ?
Excue my english I'm french speaker
I join screenshots !! Don't pay attention in the fact that my ID is not the same on both pics but I've tried to create a new one thinking it will solve my problem
Thanks a lotHello Barbara,
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ts4268
Thank you for using Apple Support Communities.
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