iMessage Error While Activating With Phone Number
Hi,
In this previous week I had a problem with activating my iMessage using my phone number.
I thought this may be some minor issue and hoped that a simple turning the iMessage toggle OFF and ON will fix the problem but the issue still persist.
I tried multiple possible solutions that were provided on the internet such as:
- Setting the date of the phone to be automatically determined
- Reseting network settings
- Restarting my iPhone
- Turning iMessage OFF and On
and others.
None of the points above work. The same goes for my friend which is on the same carrier as me (A1 MK - Macedonia).
When I'm turning the iMessage OFF and after the On, the alert saying:
Your carrier may charge for SMS messages used to activate iMessage.
is presented and obviously i click "Ok" but after that there is another alert with message:
An error occurred during activation. Try again.
And sometimes it gets in a loop between these two alerts.
I've talked with my carrier and they said that multiple cases like mine are already reported and that "they are working on it".
2 weeks are already gone and there isn't a solution for this problem.
I've read somewhere that maybe there is a problem on Apple's side and the SMS activation code doesn't go through to my carrier.
This was for the same carrier A1 but not for Macedonia, it was A1 HR (Croatia). In the last comment of that post the guy is explaining how Apple was contacted and the issue was resolved.
Here is the link to that thread but i don't know if you understand Croatian
Can you please point me out what should I do? I really miss using iMessage and I want to use it with my personal phone number not my mail.
Thank you in advance.
