Several people have reported an issue in which iMessage service is not working properly on iPhone, iPod Touch and/or iPad. For instance, iMessage doesn’t send or receive messages.
How to resolve this problem:
Turn off and on (restart) your iOS device (press and hold the Sleep/Wake button for a few seconds, then slide the slider.)
If restarting doesn’t fix it:
It has been reported that changing your DNS settings fixes this issue. To change DNS servers, follow these instructions for iOS devices (iPhone, iPod touch, iPad):
- Tap Settings
- Tap Wi-Fi on the left-hand side
- Tap the blue arrow next to your current Wi-Fi network
- Tap the “DNS” field and enter the DNS servers; 8.8.8.8 (Google’s Public DNS). For more information about Google’s public DNS, please see this: http://code.google.com/speed/public-dns/
June 28, 2012 at 7:56 AM
So I have an iPod touch and I want to use iMessage, I open it, I can type something in and type who to send it to, but the send button is dark grey and won’t let my click it. I have iOS 5.1.1
June 30, 2012 at 4:05 PM
Ok, that could mean the sender’s email address or iPhone number is not valid. Also, the Wi-fi is not connected.
July 29, 2012 at 3:07 PM
I have an iPod touch too, and my iMessage wasn’t working until I changed my DNS settings. So
1. Tap Settings
2. Tap Wi-Fi on the left-hand side
3. Tap the blue arrow next to your current Wi-Fi network
4. Tap the “DNS” field and enter the DNS servers 8.8.8.8 (Google’s Public DNS).
August 23, 2012 at 6:54 PM
This worked for me thanks!
August 4, 2012 at 11:13 AM
I have an iPod touch to bt when I created my account for it and everything was verified iMessage was nt working
December 30, 2012 at 9:16 AM
You can turn the imessage of then on again that works fine
xx
June 29, 2012 at 4:44 PM
Click on who u want to send the message to and Click on them at the top of the screen and make sure its not red with an exclamation point (!). If it is it means the other person is not registered with IMessage. Hope that solves ur problem.
June 30, 2012 at 4:06 PM
Cade is stinking right also!:)
July 2, 2012 at 9:22 AM
Mine still doesn’t work. The number listed on my received at is from other sim card which is a temp sim card when i was abroad and i cannot change them to my regular number. Please help. Thanks.
July 2, 2012 at 5:30 PM
i tried each and everyone ofthese on my iPad 3 and nothing works yet….hopefully they will give update tofix this problem. My iPad 2 had no problems with imessage at all.
July 3, 2012 at 11:31 AM
So, my messages app is working great! The only problem is it won’t let me send a message to a certain iPhone number. It lets me send messages to other iPhone numbers but not this 1 for some reason. It is not an invalid number because I have texted it before on a texting app and have called it many times, but for some reason it just won’t let me send a text through messages! Can anybody help?!
July 22, 2012 at 3:07 PM
that one phone may have messaging turned off in their settings
July 4, 2012 at 10:55 AM
I got an apple iphone 4s version 4.3.3 and when i went to the message options in settings there were no IMessage option
July 12, 2012 at 9:23 AM
You need to update to 5.0
Or higher
July 5, 2012 at 9:08 AM
My iPod touch 5.1.1, and I tried both of the things restarting it and changed the DNN, and it still doesnt send my message! It would get half way of sending then fail, I try to resend it and it never sends! I want to use this but I cant!
July 8, 2012 at 4:00 PM
my iPod touch sends my message but it takes a while for it to say delivered if it even does end up saying it . help please?
July 15, 2012 at 5:41 PM
iMessage just sucks
July 22, 2012 at 3:18 PM
Mine does the same thing and it won’t work! What do I do???!!?? Please help
August 5, 2012 at 7:33 AM
Same with mine
July 5, 2012 at 9:41 AM
Ok I have a problem, I go on iMessage and it says I have to retype my password for my ID when I do that it asks what email address I would like to use but I can’t get past that it keeps going back without me doing anything
Help??
August 12, 2012 at 12:06 PM
that happends to me too!!
July 5, 2012 at 6:29 PM
Hello!!! ok so I have tried eveything. I have turned my iPod off then back on. I have turned my time to “set automatically”. I have done the 8.8.8.8. thing but nothing works. I have version 5.1.1 and when ever I go into messages it goes to my messages screen then another screen pops up that says ” enter ur apple id”. I have used iMessages before on my iPod. I was just using it this morning!! when I do enter my apple Id it goes to the screen where it tells u to put ur email or address or what ever but after like 2 seconds it goes right back to the apple Id screen there is no alert tht comes up it just goes strait back to that screen!! I have no IDEA what to do so please help me!!!
July 6, 2012 at 7:46 AM
Wow that DNA code really worked now my iMessage and my notifications are working again
July 17, 2012 at 8:41 PM
It worked for me too!!! Tfinally!!!!!!!
July 7, 2012 at 4:17 PM
i have tried everything.. and my iMessage is still not working? I have full Internet connection and full signal.. help?
July 7, 2012 at 10:45 PM
totally worked! thanks!
July 8, 2012 at 3:13 AM
When i try and send somthing to someone the send box is grey n there sayin that person i sent to is not regesterd with imessage
July 8, 2012 at 4:02 PM
my iPod touch sends the message but it takes a while for it to say “delivered” if it does say it at all help please?
July 8, 2012 at 11:09 PM
my iphone 4s can’t send or recieve any imessage. the send button is blue. but it says ‘not delivered’
July 10, 2012 at 9:57 AM
I lost my Internet at my old house and connected at my new house now my iMessage app says it can’t verify my email cuz its already in use. How do I fix it?
July 11, 2012 at 12:26 AM
My iPod touch has iMessage but whenever I try to send a message to my friend, it always says not delivered and I try again and again but it doesnt work. What my friend sees is me ofline and a text that says random message.For it to work for me and my friend, she has to send me a picture text for it to work again. Please fix. Thanks so much ! (: ❤
July 11, 2012 at 12:27 AM
My iPod touch has iMessage but whenever I try to send a message to my friend, it always says not delivered and I try again and again but it doesnt work. What my friend sees is me ofline and a text that says random message.For it to work for me and my friend, she has to send me a picture text for it to work again. Please fix. Thanks so much ! (: ❤
July 11, 2012 at 12:27 AM
My iPod touch has iMessage but whenever I try to send a message to my friend, it always says not delivered and I try again and again but it doesnt work. What my friend sees is me ofline and a text that says random message.For it to work for me and my friend, she has to send me a picture text for it to work again. Please fix. Thanks so much ! (:
July 12, 2012 at 3:09 PM
The iMessage stopped working for me since yesterday. I have gotten 3 message that failed to go through with Red ! next to it. I have turned it off for a few seconds, then turned it on, whomever I speak to uses iMessage on their cell phone, and 8.8.8.8 will not work because I already tried that. The wifi works great because if it isn’t, I wouldn’t be able to get notifications on it and check my mail. I even turned off the iMessage and restarted it just now. It still isn’t working.
July 12, 2012 at 7:49 PM
Hi ALL,
I’m not sure will this help, but I recently had the same problem with my imessage after updating to 5.1.1 (shit version), and I had to simply re-login.
What I did was,
go to settings -> Messages
first tab should be iMessage. If it’s “on” but below it says “Activation failed, try again. blah blah blah” (I don’t remember the exact words)
Simply just click off and on again. It should ask you to re-login.
Hope it helps.
July 12, 2012 at 9:51 PM
Hi all
i have done EVERYTHING here and myimessages on my ipod is still playing up and not allowing me to send a message to one particular number but to every other number it is fine.. can SOMEONE please HELP ME
July 16, 2012 at 9:44 PM
It’s because that one person isn’t registered with iMessage, they need to update their phone.
July 13, 2012 at 11:40 AM
When I click on iMessage, it asks me to log in. I log in and it takes me to the next screen, which verifies my email. Then it takes me back to the log in screen, asking me to login and verify my email. My software is up to date and I don’t know how to fix it. It has had this problem since I first bought my iPod.
August 15, 2012 at 8:52 AM
The same with my iPod!!!! Ugh it sucks!
July 13, 2012 at 5:04 PM
Hi Gemma,
Did you ever successfully sent a msg using imessage to that particular number? Because, not all iphone users are registered to use imessage. And also, if that person updated their IOS and needed reactivation with their imessage, you will not be able to sent imessage to that person. Hence, this maybe the other person problem and not your imessage problem. Ask that user to check to see if their imessage is working or not.
Hope it helps
July 22, 2012 at 2:30 AM
I have tried everything. Changing the DNS, turnin off iMessage and even turning my wi fi off and on a number of times changing the DNS every time. Is there anything else I can try.
Plz help
July 22, 2012 at 9:11 AM
I cant activate my imessage, turned off and on and still ” waiting for activation”
Help.
July 23, 2012 at 6:49 AM
Hi all,
Um im not sure. But here’s what i did. I am using 5.1.1. My imessage, push service did not work. So i dl SAM activation from cydia. Followed its instruction and disactivated my phine and reactivated it with itune. Then relogin your imessage. Try that if you have no more idea.
But i should warn you, SAM act. need to temp change your phone ICID. Kinda long procedure but it worked for me. Good luck.
July 23, 2012 at 6:49 AM
Hi all,
Um im not sure. But here’s what i did. I am using 5.1.1. My imessage, push service did not work. So i dl SAM activation from cyd Followed its instruction and disactivated my phine and reactivated it with itune. Then relogin your imessage. Try that if you have no more idea.
But i should warn you, SAM act. need to temp change your phone ICID. Kinda long procedure but it worked for me. Good luck.
July 25, 2012 at 4:51 PM
I have a iphone and just bought my child a ipod touch and eveything seems fine ( after several tries ) but now when ever I send several text out at the same time in the To: field my daughters touch does not get it, if i text her by herself it works and if I group message she still doesnt get it. All have Imessage turn on. My iphone has a on/off slide for MMs and Group message to turn on,hers does not. I’m believing that Itouch can’t group message.
Help
July 28, 2012 at 9:16 PM
Hi bob,
First off mms and group msging function tabs has nothing to do with imessage. It’s a internal separate program, similar to msn but only built in.
I understand your problem, but i have no solution for it. Cuz i sometimes encounter that too. It’s a glitch i think. My brother and i are techs, i work in korea and he works in toronto. We imessage all the time. But for some reason, not all our msges goes thru.. Imessage is very unstable.
But logically speaking, ipod touch imessage is exactly the same as iphones’. It’s just another msn software.
Maybe when you group msg, try entering in her number imstead of her comtact number, probably crashing with someone else. Or delete her contact and re-add her with a different name.(just to make sure the pointer is not collide with another contact)
Sorry i can’t be much help on this one.
July 28, 2012 at 1:48 AM
I have an iPhone 4, not jailbroken..version 5.1.1 and the iMessage doesn’t work..
FaceTime works good but I can’t even turn on IMessage, as I turn it on, it goes back to off..!!
DNS thingy didn’t worked, what should I do ?
July 28, 2012 at 9:25 PM
The dns thing is silly, just another server to route you out to the world, but most of the filtering is local server, before you even get out to google you’d already been thru 3 or 4(depending where you are)
I’d would say ios5.1.1 is the shittiest version apple has came out with. I had so many problems with it. And yes, imessage didn’t work for me before. To fix it, either you do it legit restore thru itune, or ,i’m sorry i have to say this, but you should jailbkreak it to open up more possible solutions. Having it locked, yet you tried everything mentioned above ( given that you read all the above solitions) then if you are desprite, turn to the dark side.. Maybe you’ll find a brighter way.
July 29, 2012 at 12:13 PM
I had this issue with my kid’s ipod touch. imessage would not work when the send button was pressed. I fixed it by going into setting, messages and then turning off the show subject field setting. Only took 2 hours to figure out!
July 30, 2012 at 2:48 AM
had the problem for AGES did the dns thing, changed sim cards tried it with 3g and restarted heaps of timesand…… after FRICKIN AGES it finally works screw it all the same im gettin an htc one x for my birthday
August 3, 2012 at 7:05 AM
I just turned the phone off and back on (as suggested) and that did it for mine.
August 4, 2012 at 9:50 AM
This worked for me, thanks Pom!
I had this issue with my kid’s ipod touch. imessage would not work when the send button was pressed. I fixed it by going into setting, messages and then turning off the show subject field setting. Only took 2 hours to figure out!
August 5, 2012 at 1:38 AM
Very helpful! I have mine fixed in second! Thank you very much!
August 5, 2012 at 5:01 AM
So I have an iPod touch 4 and my friend borrowed it to log into her iTunes account. After, I logged back into mine. Since then, iMessage has not worked. It proms me to log into iMessage because I had been logged out of iTunes, which really doesn’t make any sense because it should still stay logged in whether or not you log out of your iTunes account. So I went to log into the iMessage account and it accepted my password and then went to the next screen to ask which email I wanted to receive the messages at. This is a differen email than my iTunes account email so I was changing it when suddenly it went back to the previous log in screen. One time managed to type my email really fast and press the verify button and it said that my email could not be verified and that a verification link had been sent to my email. Nothing ever arrived. Does anyone have any ideas before I have to someplace and get it fixed? Thanks!
August 5, 2012 at 1:42 PM
I have an iPod touch and I Wanted to sent my friend a message and it says try again I do so and it still dose that I turn it off then back on still isn’t working I go on setting then wifi and change the DNS to 8.8.8.8 and still it isn’t working, could someone please help me??
August 5, 2012 at 2:32 PM
This solution worked for me. It also fixed the problem I was having with Facetime.
August 6, 2012 at 4:14 PM
How do you register a number to imessege
August 8, 2012 at 9:16 AM
So I have a iPod touch and I don’t have imessage at all. How can I get it on my iPod most of my friends have it so can some one help me please
August 8, 2012 at 5:26 PM
so i have an ipod touch with the messages app and i cant recieve any texts also when i send them they never get delivered. i tried the 8.8.8.8 thing and restarted my ipod. nothing is working. please help.
August 10, 2012 at 6:36 AM
its all about the e-mail address registered, it has to be the same as the registered apple account
August 11, 2012 at 8:38 AM
hey i did all of this to and it doesnt work i have iphone4
August 12, 2012 at 11:12 AM
I have an iPod touch too and when I click iMessage and I type my email adress and I type my apple id password it didn’t work
August 12, 2012 at 12:04 PM
I have an ipod touch, and when i go to open imessages, a screen pops up saying “get started” so i click the button and it tells me to type in my apple id password(my email is already there) so i do, then it verifys, and goes back to the page that tells me to type in my password. I cant logg in! What should i do?
August 14, 2012 at 5:07 AM
It worked!
August 15, 2012 at 8:20 AM
Hi everyone,
I started having this problem yesterday which happened all of a sudden! So I cannot connect to youtube, as well as iMessage doesn’t work. I restarted many times, did some of the recommendations on here, and still no luck at all
Any further help is really appreciated!
August 15, 2012 at 9:03 AM
I tried restarting my iPod and that didn’t work. I also tried changing the DSN to 8.8.8.8 and that didn’t work either!! My problem is that I type my apple ID in and I type the password and I click next then I click verify then it says verifying and then it it brings me back to the screen where it asks u to type ur password and ID!! What should I do?!!?!?
Help!!
August 25, 2012 at 10:51 AM
My problem is that my iNessage won’t let me send or receive photos. I’ve tried everything but restoring it. Someone help?
August 26, 2012 at 4:19 AM
Thanks for this! This is working on my iPhone & iPad (: