Since returning from overseas where I temporarily used a different simcard, I keep getting this message over and over and over and over and over and over and..... iMessages are not syncing between phone and laptop. Please help!
iPhone 13 Pro, iOS 16
If your iPhone is used with a carrier not found in the wireless carrier articles, an international SMS is sent each time you activate iMessage/FaceTime. (One SMS Only)
If there are 4 SMSs that indicates you have activated iMessage 4 times.
Each time you change the SIM or activate iMessage/iCloud/FaceTime you must have got these warnings (As Shown in the pic below). If you had tapped on OK then only then the SMS is sent .....
See the pic below
If you wish not to incur international charges then please do not activate iMessage for phone number, as shown in the pic below.
This is one time charge for activation by your carrier. Your iMessage would have been free for life time. Now that you have de-activated, it will be charged again when activate by your carrier. Sorry, you de-activated it without understanding it.
Read this Apple Article: If you can’t turn on or sign in to iMessage or FaceTime - Apple Support (IN)
An extract from the above article of it is given belo....
"Check your device settings
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Thanks for this. It does not solve the problem though. I did not change anything on my settings at all, my provider worked perfectly fine until I temporarily used another sim in another country. Now my messages do not sync to the cloud, i only get them on my phone. Plus these annoying messages repeatedly pop up at random times
FaceTime (or iCloud) Your network provider may charge for SMS messages used to activate FaceTime.
