iOS 4 features: SMS/MMS failure exclamation badge
iOS 4 will now put an exclamation badge on the Messages app as a way to inform you when an SMS text or MMS multimedia message fails to send.
Previously, the exclamation badge was only present inside the Messages app itself, beside the message that failed to send. Unless you were there and checking, you might not see it, especially not right away.
Now, if and when there's been a failure to send, as long as you pass by the Messages icon on your home screen, there's a good chance you'll see it.
For more on Apple's latest software, see our complete iOS 4 feature walkthrough.
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Now all they need to do is sort out the issue when you send to multiple recipients. If it fails to send to anyone of your recipients it shows an exclamation mark, but doesn't tell you who it failed to send to. If you click on it to resend, it'll resend to everyone again.
Wait is this already part of the new ios firmware or is this coming with the new update firmware apple realeasing in few weeks ?!
I definitely got NO exclamation mark when an SMS failed to send last week (it was, however, in the app itself). iPhone 3G here, iOS 4 of course.
This hasn't once worked for me since the upgrade to iOS 4.
That's awesome for task completion.
Also you can now send a text to more than 10 ppl at once.
WOW!!!!! That's awesome! Welcome to 2008!!!
On my 3G running 3.0 the failure ! Shows up on BiteSMS.
Hey Rene! Have you tried to edit a contact since iOS4? I just did this yesterday and was surprised to find that it is completely different. I didn't see anything in the walkthrough about it so I thought you might want to add it in.
I wonder why Apple hasn't incorporated an automatic resend feature? My old Palm Treo 755p on Sprint would automatically resend messages that fail to send within 1 minute. This was a great feature on Palm OS that I hope Apple incorporates in the future!
I think messaging on ios 4 is just very buggy right now. Aside from that notification icon that works for some but not others, I've also noticed that the character count doesn't work if you send to more than one recipient.
Now they only need to fix the fact that when you get a mms with sound I stead of being one message you get two. It'll be nice if the phone displays the message and play the sound under one thing instead of two. Any guess as to why this was implemented like this?
I got this icon yesterday.... But it's pretty much WORTHLESS since it won't tell me WHICH text did not go through!!!
I had 3 text threads, but it would not identify which thread or text was the problem. VERY ANNOYING.
biteSMS on jailbroken iPhones has been doing this since 3.1
Is it possible yet to send more than one photo at a time via the email app?
I just saw this on mine yesterday for an mms I sent but it would not go away after I resent and mms got through I had to delete the pic for the exclamation to go away. Is that normal?
is anyone else having small bugs in the sms folder.. for example when i get a text and i view it , it still shows i have one unread text.. the only way to make that notification go away is to delete the entire convo...
I don't get that badge when SMS fails.
i noticed that just yesterday
This works off and on. I saw this day 1(and twittered about it). But it doesn't happen all the time
An easy way to fix this to get a third party app that does this way better than then phones own SMS.... On my BB storm 2 I have crunchSMS AND I LOVE IT. It tells me about any message that didn't go through with an exclamation mark and symbol on the icon' SMS. To block the regular phones SMS from displaying the same messages I get with CrunchSMS I had to block the reg. SMS from the phones firewall. This way only Crunch receives the SMS's from now on with all those good feature. Maybe u can do the same on the new OS 4... And I do have (sadly an iPhone 3GS but haven't tried it yet... Peace!
iOS4 on 3Gs and really wouldn't recommend it. I've had nothing but issues. Picture messaging wouldn't work unless I restored my phone as a new phone (not from a backup) so had to set everything up again. Issues with call waiting and call forwarding saying they are set "on" but don't work like they should. Settings app is sloooowwww. Using certain apps with multitasking makes them crash about 30% of the time. Even now mms seems to fail to send about half of the time. Then when I click retry it goes ok but I am left with the new "failed message" badge on my messaging app icon even though the message has now gone. It won't disappear (turned off, hard reset, closed app in multitasking taskmanager). 3Gs users should stick with the fully functional 3.1.3 for now and leave iOS4 for the bugs to be ironed out over the next few months (hopefully).
Just wish I was able to downgrade.
Stupid exclamation mark won't go away, even though I've opened the app and seen which message couldn't be sent. The only way to get rid of the ! is by deleting the failed message which I normally wouldn't want to do..
My exclamation badge is always there... It won't go away! It's COMPLETELY IMPOSSIBLE to read all the thousand messages I have here and so I cannot find the failed one (or more)! iPhone won't tell me where is it, right? I push the SMS icon (with the exclamation badge) and it just goes to the SMS list without pointing out any specific message! Thank you in advance
I had the same problems you've all described - the icon not displaying when an SMS has failed to send or getting stuck there after an MMS has failed to send - and after a little testing I think I've got it figured: the exclamation only shows on the main app icon if you've exited the app and switched off the screen before the message has failed to send. I guess the weird logic from Apple is that if you haven't exited the app & turned off the screen, you'll notice the failed icon displayed in the message thread. Doesn't really help when you exit the app to do something else before the message has sent though…
As for the stuck icon after a failed MMS: this disappears after you successfully send another message (either SMS or MMS) to a different contact…
Same problem here. The exclamation mark just won't go away. ever... Sending SMS to other contacts or receiving new SMS (as WolfHardeyk suggested) doesn't change this either. Reset doesn't change a thing... My SMS icon badge is stuck on "!". Very annoying. This is with iOS4.1 on a 3G.
I have the same problem with the stuck notification icons. It's a pain, but a restart always makes it go away, but I have to actually open up messages to get rid of the notifications (even if I've opened a message and responded to it already, hah...)
I this thread and tried all solutions. None of then worked only nov2010 iPhone phone with iOS 4.1 but when i turned off mms messaging I could at least run SMS!
Not sure if this is new news but made my life easier.
Can anyone update me on any solution for the mms functionality? Nick