Is iMessage down for you?
A lot of us here at iMore along with friends and family members are having some issues with iMessage. Basically, we can't send or receive any! Are you guys experiencing the same problems we are?
If you seem to be having issues sending iMessages, you can turn it off from Settings for now so you can still send regular text messages. It's what we recommend doing until the service is back to working properly.
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I just switched to using IM+ (free version)
This is why iMessage sucks. If it's down, you have to manually shut it off. If you're not paying attention, you risk sending overseas texts. Terrible! BBM is much better - no chance of being charged for overseas messages on BBM.
It's taking about an hour to send iMessages for me.
I was one who sent an email to you guys. It's down for basically everyone I know, all idevices too.
On Verizon and having no problems.
Verizon in Ohio and its down for me...
Maybe it's regional. I am in Dallas and its still working.
Very pissed about it being down! I was iMessaging a friend that lives in London and then all of a sudden the send button turned green on me and I didn't notice until after the message was already sent. Not a good thing when I live in the US!
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exactly i was like oh crap that was probably like a 10 dollar text that said text me later
Whatsapp is a great option for texting anyone around the globe.
Down in Turkey as well. Turkcell on the iPhone and wifi on the iPad... both not working.
I'm on AT&T and it's been sending a message to someone on a Sprint iPhone for the last 30 minutes. This person lives right next door.
Sprint in Boston it has been spotty all day took about 40 mins to send last message I sent out. Sent it at 2:30 just sent. :-(
Seems to be working...some of the time...for me.
Was down, but after a reboot, it came back.
Down for me it's stuck on sending.........
Down over here in Orlando on Sprint iPhone 4S.
On Verizon in Pennsylvania Working fine for me.
I came here for a totally different reason, and came across this post. messages haven't been going to my son who only uses iMessage on wifi. I was having problems too. it's intermittent here. I'm on Long Island.
AT&T in Washington is working fine
Kaput here too.
Been down for over 2 hours here. AT&T southern California.
Yes it is I'm in Florida
It isn't completely down for me on AT&T in Southern Cal, but it sure takes a looooooong time to send any message!
Yes, down all over. Thanks for the tip. Wonder what the problem is?
Working fine as usual here in houston, TX on AT&T, iphone 4S
Dead for me on WiFi, all my devices are on iOS6 GM not sure if that makes a difference.
Working fine in Seattle between two AT&T iPhones.
Definitely down for me. AT&T here in Washington, DC.
Yes. Awaiting my new iPhone 5 this Friday. So until then I won't have access to SMS. iPhone 4S was sold awhile back.
is down here in North Carolina Im on Sprint and I have a iphone4. Does anybody know if apple is doing something to fix this at all?
Chicago - it was down for a bit but fine now.
AT&T in Houston working fine for me.
No problems on Rogers in Canada.
Yes it is down in Hungary
On a Verizon iPhone 4. Down for me about 2 and a half hours. Back up and running now.
AT&T down few hours ...
I'm with Telus in Halifax, Nova Scotia....i wouldn't know because I sold my iPhone 4 almost a month ago to get top dollar for it.....I need my iPhone 5 now...
Bell in Canada seems to be working ok.
yah i culd not able to send texts to my brother this afternoon
It's been struggling in the UK. Seems to be ok now.
iOS 5.1.1 on my 4S on Big Red in North-East Ohio and working fine.
ohh so that's what the problem was.. I was in the hospital today and was going crazy because lots of my messages didn't go through I thought I was having a signal issue... had even to take an elevator and go into the lobby but to no avail. insane..
I have no issue works like a charm!
Down for me.
Central ca.
Eastern PA on AT&T. Been down since 1:15 PM.
I am trying to activate my imessage but I was not able to activate it and I don't know what was the problem...need help...
I appears like iMessage has not been working for me for the last twelve to 18 hours.
Mine is down as well for the past 16 hours. And when I try to activate again, it gives me an errors wrong password for my Apple ID.
No, iMessage is not down for me, but why is iMore now defaulting to a mobile sight on a desktop browser? It's resolving to m.imore.com now.
Yeah, it's been down for me for a while. It's apparently something do with my preorder for an iPhone 5.
Yep for a good month
Yep down for me here in Utah still.
I work for an authorized AT&T reseller, and we had complaints from multiple users about having trouble with iMessage; friends of mine on Verizon were also asking me what was going on as well. After enough instances presented themselves, I spoke with Apple Monday afternoon regarding this issue.
They confirmed that much like the intermittent issues with Siri and iCloud over the past two weeks, iMessage users might experience delays with the system or times in which sending iMessages wouldn't go through.
The only explanation I was able to receive was that Apple had been performing updates to these core systems in preparation for the release of iOS 6 and that users should, as the Apple Care Rep stated, "Keep trying."
It did go down for me at the time of this post. Good thing for me is that I don't really rely on iMessage since most of the people that I text is on the same mobile network that I'm on anyways.