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iOS 9 on iPhone 6: iMessage and FaceTime Activation Problem
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I'm in Canada on the Rogers network (not that it really matters for iMessage).
I updated my iPhone 5 yesterday with no problems. Until this afternoon.
I ran into an oddity where apple forced me to change my password. I'm not sure if it's just old or what but automatically said I needed to change my password so I did. (This was while accessing my account via Apple.com/ca)
My iPhone promptly made the connection that my password had changed and requested I enter it.. same with with iCloud.
Now it's just sitting at Waiting for activation.
I updated my iPhone 5 yesterday with no problems. Until this afternoon.
I ran into an oddity where apple forced me to change my password. I'm not sure if it's just old or what but automatically said I needed to change my password so I did. (This was while accessing my account via Apple.com/ca)
My iPhone promptly made the connection that my password had changed and requested I enter it.. same with with iCloud.
Now it's just sitting at Waiting for activation.
My problem was that my operator was blocking international sms. I've called them and they said that, by mistake, any international communications were cut on my number. Since activating iMessage and FaceTime requires a international sms, i was getting stuck. As soon as i got "unblocked" it activated in 2-3 seconds.
Same here, 3 phones on Rogers and both stuck on Waiting activation. Tried everything that's on the web and nothing worked. Rogers has not been much help at all.
Let me know if you figure it out and I will do the same
I created an account here just to comment on this thread, as this issue nearly killed me (not literally)... and may I can help some people out? IDK...
For context, I'm in Canada on Virgin Mobile.
I received my new 6s on Friday, and my husband and I had planned to switch service providers as soon as we got the new phones because we wanted a bigger data package. As soon as the SIM was installed I started having issues with iMessage. After searching the internet for hours, I discovered that my new provider (Wind Mobile) doesn't support iMessage because they're not an authorized dealer (also, their service sucks). So, back to Virgin I went.
Then, everything was great but iMessage still wouldn't authorize.
When I restored my phone to port the settings from my old 5s to my new 6s, I did it using iTunes. I first backed up the old phone, then restored the new phone and everything seemed to go well with that. When my husband restored he did it using iCloud. He had been able to use iMessage with no issue all along, while I was still having issues.
I factory restored, recovered, etc twice over the course of this passed weekend. I spent hours reading forms to figure this out, and my husband still had no issues. So, with the only difference between my phone and his was the way it was restored from a backup, I decided to wipe the phone and start from fresh using no backup at all (Ugh..... )
I did that last night. Tested iMessage. It would authorize, and I would try to send a message, and then it would suddenly no longer be authorized.
I gave up, plugged it in, and walked away for the night. In the morning I noticed it was authorized again. So I asked my husband to send me a message. The first one came through as a text, and then the next as imessage. And now I have no more issues.
I hope this helps... I literally tried everything all weekend to get this to work. So terrible.
For context, I'm in Canada on Virgin Mobile.
I received my new 6s on Friday, and my husband and I had planned to switch service providers as soon as we got the new phones because we wanted a bigger data package. As soon as the SIM was installed I started having issues with iMessage. After searching the internet for hours, I discovered that my new provider (Wind Mobile) doesn't support iMessage because they're not an authorized dealer (also, their service sucks). So, back to Virgin I went.
Then, everything was great but iMessage still wouldn't authorize.
When I restored my phone to port the settings from my old 5s to my new 6s, I did it using iTunes. I first backed up the old phone, then restored the new phone and everything seemed to go well with that. When my husband restored he did it using iCloud. He had been able to use iMessage with no issue all along, while I was still having issues.
I factory restored, recovered, etc twice over the course of this passed weekend. I spent hours reading forms to figure this out, and my husband still had no issues. So, with the only difference between my phone and his was the way it was restored from a backup, I decided to wipe the phone and start from fresh using no backup at all (Ugh..... )
I did that last night. Tested iMessage. It would authorize, and I would try to send a message, and then it would suddenly no longer be authorized.
I gave up, plugged it in, and walked away for the night. In the morning I noticed it was authorized again. So I asked my husband to send me a message. The first one came through as a text, and then the next as imessage. And now I have no more issues.
I hope this helps... I literally tried everything all weekend to get this to work. So terrible.
I got this problem after updating to iOS 9.1 this weekend. I tried every recommendation I could find online. I think this finally fixed it:
Go to settings --> General --> Data and Time --> "set automatically" I think when I did the update this got turned off somehow...well about 5 min after changing this setting, it accepted my apple ID and PW below where you turn on iMessage.