TS4268 What does it mean 'This person cannot be reached by iMessage at this time'?

I have iMessage to my friend successfully before. But yesterday when I tried to iMessage him again, these words appear 'This person cannot be reached by iMessage at this time? What does it mean?

Thanks for this thread. I had the problem too. It was very frustrating because he's overseas and we iMessage a few times per week.
The reason it was broken: the specific contact had changed his AppleID password and had not updated it on his iPhone.
The solution that worked for us:
He reset his AppleID (c.f.: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht5624)
He updated the password at iPhone (iOS7) >> Settings >> Messages
He updated the password at iPhone >> Settings >> FaceTime
I reset my network settings: my iPhone (iOS7) >> Settings >> General >> Reset >> Reset Network Settings
He didn't have to reset his network settings, and neither of us powered our iPhones off/on.

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I have an iphone 5, iOS 7.0.2. Going through photos on facebook app., above on the screen, came up "saving screenshot"....but there was nothing in camera roll. What does it mean this, what's are this screenshots?

I agree- I apologize if I sounded skeptical and attacking. In no way did I mean it to sound that way.
I completely agree on the software-hardware combo issue- this is why apple killed off 1G and 2G devices- because newer software revisions would never ever run well if at all on such ancient devices. can you imagine running iOS 6 on an iPhone/iPod touch 1G? That would be terrible. Let alone iOS 3 runs terrible on them and now are generally rendered useless due to newer App Store requirements (most require 4.3+ now to allow apple to kill off the older devices). forcing newer software on older hardware (apple, dell, HP,... Anything electronic this definitely applies to) will almost always yield less-than-par results. The other part is apple forcing you to upgrade by means of intentially making things obsolete. all companies do that.
All of this factual info aside, the issue at hand with the 5 is not a software-hardware combo problem- those are most widely seen with the major revisions. then again, this isn't the first time apple has gotten caught up in battery drain snafus (even iOS 5 was plagued with this as well- and now there are some people desperate to roll back but can't). it basically waters it down to the point where keeping the stock software will always yield the best results even though newer versions provide better features- it all depends on whether or not the person deems the added features are worth a performance hit.
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PSS. What model/carrier do you have? Just wondering.

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What carrier did you buy it from? Are they on this list? http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1937?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US
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Hallo Apple,
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Exact same thing happened to me today. Used to iMessage friend w/ phone number. Then around Oct, all messages turned into green texts & I never got a response. Then finally decided to leave voicemail in Dec. got an iMessage response a short time later from his email address. We've been texting that way until today when I got the "person cannot be reached by iMessage at this time" alert.
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Our timing isn't great for phone calls either. And no guys I know respond to emails ever. I know it's not a matter of being blocked because a few weeks ago we made tentative plans & I was texting to follow up. Until today, I got responses.
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I am wanting to text a friend on IMessage and everytime i try sending a message it says: This person cannot be reached on Imessage at this time, please try again later. What does this mean i have been trying for the past 8 hours and it kept saying the same thing! please help! Thanks..

Lots of users don't realize iMessage will send a text to any phone but using an email address the recipient needs to be registered on iMessage. I suppose when you think about it a text is on the cell network but desktops & laptops are not on the cell network so are sent on the net.
Now if Contacts could be made so that it presented you with the cell number when you were sending a text but the email address only for emails.........

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Exact same thing happened to me today. Used to iMessage friend w/ phone number. Then around Oct, all messages turned into green texts & I never got a response. Then finally decided to leave voicemail in Dec. got an iMessage response a short time later from his email address. We've been texting that way until today when I got the "person cannot be reached by iMessage at this time" alert.
I've seen a lot of people suggest switching to SMS, but they're talking about a different alert--that little ted exclamation point one. Right now, it doesn't even try to send. It's one of those navy blue pop up alerts like when you're in a completely different app & your phone alerts you that you got a text message.
Our timing isn't great for phone calls either. And no guys I know respond to emails ever. I know it's not a matter of being blocked because a few weeks ago we made tentative plans & I was texting to follow up. Until today, I got responses.
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Has anyone figured out what this problem is?

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Because the recipient's iOS device cannot be reached by iMessage at the time which has nothing to do with your iPhone.
Wi-Fi isn't required to exchange iMessages.

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TS4268 What does it mean 'This person cannot be reached by iMessage at this time'?

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