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2023-08-24 07:32:50

How to Set Up iMessage on iPhone or iPad

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Everyone in today's iphone video .

I want to show you how to activate I messages and I wanna show you what to try if you have any issues in the activation process towards the end of the video .

So I messages are basically text messages between I OS devices .

So if you have an iphone or an ipad or even have I messages activated on any Mac computer , you could get I messages .

And when you type on an I message as if you're sending a regular text and you press send , it shows up as that blue bubble by default .

But if you send a text , it will show up as green .

And if you send an iMessage to someone with an android phone , they'll just get it as a regular text message .

So let's go ahead and set it up .

We want to go to the settings menu of our iphone or ipad .

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And on this page , we want to scroll down till we get to this messages option and click that and inside of here , if yours is turned off , it will just be gray like you see here and to turn it on , you just have to turn the slider on and it says I messages can be sent between iphones , ipads , ipod touch and Mac and it uses wireless data .

So I'll go ahead and turn it on here and it says waiting for activation .

Now , this could take up to 24 hours .

So I've had mine activated before .

So I turn on right away , but I'll cover a few things at the end of the video that could go wrong if your activation doesn't take place in 24 hours .

Now , a few things to note here that I would recommend you look at is if you slide down here , there's a message history tab and by default , it's keeping my messages for a year .

So click this and you have three different options .

If you have a lot of storage on your phone forever is ok .

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But in my case , I'll put one year and if you have a smaller phone and smaller amount of storage , 30 days might be the best option because this will take up some space on your phone , then you have audio messages right under that .

Again , when someone sends you an audio message , you could take a lot of space on your phone .

So by default , it expires after two minutes , but you could change that and keep it for after one year or two .

So that's your options there .

And the low quality image mode , if this is on images will be sent in a lower quality , this will help with your data instead of setting the higher re picture .

So you could go and turn this on right here if you like .

And if you want to activate this on your Mac computer , so you could get a messaging through your Mac .

I'll link to a different video about that in the description below this one .

Now , if you had any activation issues or if you get an error message , when you try to activate , these are the things you need to try .

The first thing is under the send and receive option .

Click that and you should be logged into your apple ID here on top .

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So go ahead and click that and you need to sign , sign out here .

If you sign out , restart your phone and sign back in , that's one option that could save this issue for you .

The other thing you could try is in the control center .

So on the top , right , if I just drag down and come to my control center here , I could turn on airplane mode right on top here and then turn it off just to kind of reset my cell data here , my wifi and then make sure everything is connected .

Sometimes if the data plan or the wifi is not working properly , that cause an issue for activation on iMessage .

And each time I recommend you restart your phone or your ipad , when you do these settings and finally go back in the settings app one more time you come all the way up and there's a general option here , go to the general tab .

And if you come down here , there is a reset option .

And inside a reset , there's reset network settings .

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If you reset your network settings , restart your phone and then try iMessage and activating it , that's another option that might solve your problem .

And hopefully one of those solves your activation problems with iMessage .

I hope you found this video useful .

Please give it a thumbs up and subscribe for easy to follow tech videos and I'll see you next time .

Thanks for watching .

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