I’ve seen this number of articles about this and just spend all morning onto Apple support about this as well.
I upgraded from a iPhone 12 to iPhone 14 and I have continually got the message for both iMessage and FaceTime that activation was unsuccessful for 48 hours now. I thought it was due to Apple, however putting my sim I have for work (Lebara mobile) and bingo both FaceTime and iMessage were activated successfully all in around 60 seconds.
put my ID mobile sim back in (it’s my main contact number!) and we end up with activation unsuccessful.
ID mobile, what’s up, why wont this work? FYI I did port my number from 3, but that was over 6 months ago!
can someone please help with this as it’s clearly not an Apple issue, but ID MOBILE
Best answer by Steven MacMillan
Amy Jayne wrote:
Steven MacMillan wrote:
Hi all,
I’ve seen this number of articles about this and just spend all morning onto Apple support about this as well.
I upgraded from a iPhone 12 to iPhone 14 and I have continually got the message for both iMessage and FaceTime that activation was unsuccessful for 48 hours now. I thought it was due to Apple, however putting my sim I have for work (Lebara mobile) and bingo both FaceTime and iMessage were activated successfully all in around 60 seconds.
put my ID mobile sim back in (it’s my main contact number!) and we end up with activation unsuccessful.
ID mobile, what’s up, why wont this work? FYI I did port my number from 3, but that was over 6 months ago!
can someone please help with this as it’s clearly not an Apple issue, but ID MOBILE
Hi, I am going through this exact problem at the moment and ID aren’t being very helpful. Did you ever resolve this?
Yes, by moving to o2, they gave me a better sim only deal at £5 a month for double the data of o2…… I did notice though the day before I switched that the activation was successful but it took around 24-48 hours. When I activated my o2 account and ported my number it took them less than a minute! It’s definitely and ID issue
Yes the same number is in both, but it won’t let me select my number in contactable, it keeps coming up with activation unsuccessful, same for FaceTime.
No I can’t send any messages when I turn iMessage off, most of my contacts use iMessage and I can’t send anything to them, even trying to send it to there number directly as a SMS
Okay @Steven MacMillan, iPhone handsets should use SMS for text messages whenever iMessage (an Apple service) is unavailable.
If your iPhone 14 can’t send an SMS when using your iD SIM card, it sounds like there’s an issue with your iD SIM card, or your iD account @Steven MacMillan.
I think the quickest way to resolve your issue is get in-touch with iD Mobile customer service, using their online live chat. Alternatively, contact iD privately using Facebook Messenger, or by Twitter DM.
I’ve seen this number of articles about this and just spend all morning onto Apple support about this as well.
I upgraded from a iPhone 12 to iPhone 14 and I have continually got the message for both iMessage and FaceTime that activation was unsuccessful for 48 hours now. I thought it was due to Apple, however putting my sim I have for work (Lebara mobile) and bingo both FaceTime and iMessage were activated successfully all in around 60 seconds.
put my ID mobile sim back in (it’s my main contact number!) and we end up with activation unsuccessful.
ID mobile, what’s up, why wont this work? FYI I did port my number from 3, but that was over 6 months ago!
can someone please help with this as it’s clearly not an Apple issue, but ID MOBILE
Hi, I am going through this exact problem at the moment and ID aren’t being very helpful. Did you ever resolve this?
I’ve seen this number of articles about this and just spend all morning onto Apple support about this as well.
I upgraded from a iPhone 12 to iPhone 14 and I have continually got the message for both iMessage and FaceTime that activation was unsuccessful for 48 hours now. I thought it was due to Apple, however putting my sim I have for work (Lebara mobile) and bingo both FaceTime and iMessage were activated successfully all in around 60 seconds.
put my ID mobile sim back in (it’s my main contact number!) and we end up with activation unsuccessful.
ID mobile, what’s up, why wont this work? FYI I did port my number from 3, but that was over 6 months ago!
can someone please help with this as it’s clearly not an Apple issue, but ID MOBILE
Hi, I am going through this exact problem at the moment and ID aren’t being very helpful. Did you ever resolve this?
Yes, by moving to o2, they gave me a better sim only deal at £5 a month for double the data of o2…… I did notice though the day before I switched that the activation was successful but it took around 24-48 hours. When I activated my o2 account and ported my number it took them less than a minute! It’s definitely and ID issue
Yeah, I’ve tried everything. Waiting on ID technical team to look into it, but it’ll take another 48 hours. It’s already been 48 hours since getting the phone.
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