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iPhone 15 Pro Max - FaceTime and iMessage activation Issues
Hello! I really really need help… firstly I work in IT so I’m pretty clued in with how to sort these things usually, fixed many a family members phone etc… I recently took out a new contract with iD with the plan of double porting my number out to another network and back in to the new contract… I got my new 15 Pro Max in the post yesterday (the day after all the network outages with Three/ID in the UK) and basically, I've had nothing but issues activating iMessage. It was working absolutely fine on my old phone, until I swapped the SIM card into the new one, suddenly I’m getting “iMessage Activation - An error occurred during activation. Try again.” No amount of flipping the switch on and off makes any difference. I’ve troubleshooted with Apple, ID customer service, Live Chat, in store at Curry's, I’ve restored my phone to factory settings- even got a new SIM card from Curry's and swapped onto that! you name it, I’ve done it. iMessage won’t activate on either phone, with my old number or the new SIM card with the new number… I can’t help but think this is maybe some glitchy fallout of all the issues over the last few days, but I can’t seem to see anyone having similar issues and everyone I’ve spoken to on the phone/live chat etc isn't aware of anything affecting activation. I’m on the latest software version, iOS 17.1.2. Any advice/help would be greatly appreciated!