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  1. officialjoeyw

    Help? iMessage not working

    A few hours ago, iMessage randomly stopped working on my iPhone and my Mac (both connected w my phone number). It still lets me send texts but their green. And yes, I did all the hard resets and the on and off tricks. What is going on?
  2. S

    No iMessage notifications when Mac is on

    hi everyone, I recently updated my Mac to Sierra. Since this update, I've noticed that I'm not getting push notifications to my iPhone or Apple Watch when my Mac is on. It's as if the Mac gets the notifcation and silences it on all my other devices. I don't notice messages come in until I...
  3. B

    iPhone Option to sync messages to iCloud not available

    I have upgraded by iPhone7 to the latest ios11 public beta, but it doesn't show the option to sync Messages with iCloud as shown here: messages sync via iCloud in iOS 11 Attached are the screenshots. Is it not available in India? What should I do to get this option? This is one of the reasons...
  4. Aidoon

    Keychain iMessage Encryption Keys

    I have over 100 entries in my Keychain for iMessage Encryption Keys and iMessage Signing Keys. Can I delete these without any side effects?
  5. Phil in ocala

    imessage....not so simple

    Using iMessage for the first time....I enter my email and password under "accounts" in preferences. Then on the page...I enter the phone number i want the message to go to...then drop to bottom of window and enter the message....NO submit button...NO send button seen....I hit return and the...
  6. M

    Message sync from what device

    hello, I have iOS 11 beta, just downloaded it. I have a question regarding which device. For example I have iPhone 7 Plus = 128 gb with 5 gb worth of messages iPhone 6 = 16 gb with 200 mb worth of messages If I update both. Does my 7 + lose all messages or does the 6 gain How do I choose.
  7. bleighv

    Group Texts: Do Not Disturb Not Working

    Hello all, I did a fair share of googling and forum searching but haven't come up with a solution; I hope you guys can help. Details: Husband has an iPhone 6s and is running the latest iOS. Problem: His family always starts group texts (they all have iPhones) and my husband always has been...
  8. J

    Having trouble with iMessage on iOS 11 & my iPad Pro 10.5

    So, I got the new iPad yesterday & instantly installed iOS 11. Mostly everything works great for a beta, just having one main issue. I cannot seem to get my iPad to send messages using my iPhone phone number. Has this happened to anyone? Does anyone have any solutions? I know that there will be...
  9. V

    iMessage on MacBook Pro slow to update

    I have seen this issue mentioned in earlier iOS releases, but have never seen a resolution. When I woke up my macbook pro (latest software) this morning and checked the iMessages on it, there were no updates since last night (I had used iMessage on my iPhone numerous times in between). After...
  10. alisonthursby

    iMessages issue on MacBook Air Sierra

    Hi there, I'm hoping someone cal help me with the iMessages app on Mac Sierra. I don't know if anyone else is having any issues with the iMessages app for their MacBook or iMac but I have two issues that seem to have appeared out of nowhere. Firstly, I can't seem to message anyone on my...
  11. B

    Is this Messages bug fixed in iOS 11?

    This is a bug from iOS 8, but it still applies unfortunetly in iOS 10. Can anyone who has iOS 11 confirm if it is fixed? https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/does-messages-consolidate-conversations-in-ios-8.1762454/
  12. S

    iMessage 3D Touch Keyboard Not Working

    Hi Everyone, So on my lock screen when I get an iMessage notification I would 3D press it on my lock screen get the pop up message with the keyboard. Now whenever I 3D touch the message pops up but no keyboard. Is there a setting for this? Welp I figured it out. Can a mod close this thread...
  13. A

    iPhone 6 deletes messages and doesn't notify

    iPhone 6, 16GB Updated to iOS 10.3.1 (latest since posting date) Since about last week, my iPhone has been running out of storage. I suspected it was due to too much "caching" where it tries to store half-downloaded data. I restarted my iPhone and it deleted the cached data as it should, and...
  14. JCLawyer

    Red iMessage contacts

    Hive, My MacBook Pro was doing a great job syncing messages with my iPhone 7 until two days ago. Now, I have many red contacts, and I can't send messages to them from my computer. I have tried signing in and out of iCloud. I have toggled text message forwarding. I have restarted. What am I...
  15. J

    OS Sierra and iMessage history

    So I have run into an annoyance with iMessage on my mac that's running OS Sierra. When I launch the iMessage app, I delete all the messages. I then go into the library folder in the finder, navigate to the "messages" folder and I delete the contents of the folder and empty the trash. So this...
  16. M

    iMessage problem with saving

    I'm having a weird problem on my MacBook Pro. I think it started to happen much more frequently after I installed Sierra. iMessages will not save properly in Library/Messages and a conversation will only show my outgoing messages with no incoming messages for some time (usually a couple of...
  17. elibenhur02

    Help me please with multiple iPhone 6S problems.

    Alright so recently my phone has been having all kinds of problems and I'm really not sure what to do about it. My iMessage keeps crashing and whenever I try to send a text, the text sends but then the app crashes. Some of the photos I take end up as solid gray photos. My wi-fi will not function...
  18. E

    Monitoring my child's texts without having combined message threads

    I've got a very annoying problem that I'm sure has come up for someone else but for which I cannot find a solution. I recently added my daughter's phone number and email address to Messages on my phone to monitor her texts. But now when I text my wife and vice versa it appears that texts from...
  19. B

    Exporting/Saving Messages

    Hey, I'm new here. I'm sure this has been posted multiple times but I can't seem to find it via search, so apologies in advance if this is annoying... I need to set up my new phone from scratch and not as a restore of an old backup... But my old backup (and the 5+ years of history in it)...
  20. K

    iPhone Erasing all content and settings on jailbroken iPhone 4S (iOS 8.1.2)

    Hello My wife is using my old (jailbroken) iPhone 4S, and a few weeks ago a weird problem occurred. She was trying to send an SMS/iMessage and something apparently went wrong. Apparently the problem is related to Messaging (probably iMessage) and FaceTime: neither application works at all, and...