I am unable to send messages to a contact. The blue message bubbles already sent have turned green.
I get repeatedly : Message send failure.
Your message was not sent.
Click Try Again to send this message.
I have restarted the Mac, no change.
Mac mini, macOS 12.3
hoquet wrote:
I am unable to send messages to a contact. The blue message bubbles already sent have turned green.
I get repeatedly : Message send failure.
Your message was not sent.
Click Try Again to send this message.
I have restarted the Mac, no change.
Verify your Messages>Preferences>
enable SMS
Messages User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
hoquet wrote:
I am unable to send messages to a contact. The blue message bubbles already sent have turned green.
I get repeatedly : Message send failure.
Your message was not sent.
Click Try Again to send this message.
I have restarted the Mac, no change.
Verify your Messages>Preferences>
enable SMS
Messages User Guide for Mac - Apple Support
hoquet wrote:
Many thanks for the helpful info. I don't use this forum much because things mostly work fine. I had no idea there was a recognition system. But I did wonder how to get from Level 1 to Level 9 !! I'll work on it...
Welcome 😃
Do come back to the Apple Support Communities ( ASC ) in the future, if / or when additional questions may arise
One can also just pock around on the Forums to see what is happening and contribute too.
That is what I have done over the many years and learned a lot ( still learning daily ).
Encourage you to do the same
By "the user" do you mean me ? I have an Apple ID which I use for my iPhone iPad and Mac. The intended recipient of my message has his own unchanged Apple ID and has not changed his phone number. This has always worked...
P Phillips : thanks for trying to help.
Not irrelevant because I did not mark it as solved. I have no idea how to do that. It wasn't solved until late this afternoon.
I believe it was leroydouglas who marked the problem as solved after sending the response : "Verify your Messages>Preferences> enable SMS".
But I had already done that, among other things, and it had not worked.
Anyway, I investigated the problem further today and found that the recipient had actually changed carrier and the phone number was in the process of being transferred. In the meantime the phone had been allocated a temporary number. The transfer of the number is now complete and everything is working properly.
So now it is solved.
Many thanks for the helpful info. I don't use this forum much because things mostly work fine. I had no idea there was a recognition system. But I did wonder how to get from Level 1 to Level 9 !! I'll work on it...
Thank you the update and it is really now solved.
Just for point of interest for you and this is purely informational
Share what you know and get recognized - Apple Support
Does the user have an Apple iPhone using the Same Apple ID involved in this setup ?
Since the user ( you ) has marked a previous posting as Solved - the remainder becomes irrelevant - no !
EDITED - spelling
MacOS Monterey 12.3.1 Message not delivered
