Apple says the issue may stem from having an inactive SIM with the same number as your active SIM. To fix it, remove the inactive SIM and activate iMessage again.

iPhone users on iOS 26, iMessage activation may be blocked by an inactive SIM — here's how to fix it. Some users are finding that they can't activate iMessage with their phone number. This results in ...

Since the release of iOS 26 in September, iPhone users have experienced myriad issues. Whether it was the Calendar bug which made it difficult to search for specific keywords or the fact that some ...

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PHOENIX (AZFamily)—If you are an iPhone user and you’ve tried using Facetime or iMessage, you might have run into some issues today. According to Apple’s system status page, the unknown issue started ...

Since iOS 26 was released last month, some iPhone users have had problems using iMessage with their phone numbers. Apple has now published a new support document on its website addressing the problem ...

On its System Status webpage this morning, Apple says that iMessage and FaceTime are experiencing ongoing “performance” issues. The problems, however, appear to be relatively minor. “Users are ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW YORK (PIX11) — Apple’s text messaging ...

Apple confirms that iMessage may not activate automatically on iPhones running iOS 26 if the eSIM setup is skipped. Here’s ...