Message Delivery Issues after iOS 18.1.1 Update

I suddenly had messages going through as SMS rather than iMessage (which cost me as I text people abroad) - messages usually in blue turned to green. I finally worked out - go to settings - apps - messages - open “send and recieve” and under “start new conversations from” make sure your Apple account email is selected and not your phone number. Now I want Apple to reimburse me because this happened after iOS update - I had no prompt that I needed to do this and am pretty furious I’ve been charged 10 quid for “texting” my Mom when it’s always automatically gone through as iMessage.

I was struggling with this same issue for weeks since I updated to iOS 18.1 but was able to resolve it with my carrier’s (T-Mobile) customer support today. Basically they had to “reset” my network. They walked me through the settings and other things to do, and they reset my network connection on their end. This fixed this issue in an instant. So I recommend calling your carrier for support.

Ever since the newest update came out, my texts messages are messing up! Doesn’t show new messages, says I have some and I don’t. Shows I sent a message months ago but doesn’t show the latest one I sent. Some that I saved, aren’t even there and doesn’t send messages sometimes. I need to back to prior update. Apple, do ANOTHER update that fixes these issues!!

Have you found a fix for this? I’m haveing the exact same issue! I deleted all email addresses from my wife’s contact then attempted to message her number and it tries creating a new message string and keeps acting like it’s sending but doesn’t. Then you look in the normal string and it’s there and sent, but the normal string is listed under her email.

We both have IMessages set to send and receive from only our phone number.

even after updating to 18.2.1 I’m still having the same problem. My carrier has tried to help but nothing, I’ve deleted all emails and created a new contact with my husbands email and work line and when I try send an iPhone message it still try’s to send it to his work landline. So I have to manually input his iPhone number and click iPhone message to send him a text.

This happened to me too. I’m on a iphone11. What do you have?

What happened to you too? If you want assistance you need to be specific with what the issue is and tell exactly what you’ve tried to remedy the issue.

How did you get logged back into IMessage and FaceTime? My phone updated while I was asleep and now it's not letting me log back into iMessage or FaceTime keeps saying error.

I am having all the same issues. And it is random. I wished I had not updated my phone.

I forgot to turn off auto update after I received my phone. I am having the same issues. This is the exact reason I turn off auto updates.

Worked for me Lecartwrt thanks received every message I missed

Glad I’m not the only but for some reason, I can send videos but when I select a photo to send it just disappears when I press “done”

Android user is not receiving my text messages after I updated to latest IOS update! Fix asap!