Se2020 no longer receiving sms

iOS
#1

My iMessage and SMS seems to be broken on my iPhone SE 2020. It was all working perfectly well until mid December, the 19th being the last day I was able to receive any texts from non-iphone users. I just cannot work it out. I thought at first it must be to do with my provider (Woolies) but when I switched the SIM to another iPhone, there was no issue.

I can’t think what else to do. Carrier settings are up to date, iOS is on 14.3 BUT now I can’t use my mobile number for iMessage either. Lord knows how long thats been happening, but my number is refusing to register/activate on the SE. It just sits and spins…

Can anyone point me at something I have missed, or something else I can do, before I revert to my old but still functioning iPhone7?

TIA

#2

Try resetting the network settings, if that doesn’t work then do a full phone reset.

#3

I reset network, and will do full phone reset later. Just needed to get the sim into a known working phone. I dont think i was meant to have that SE. Once its fixed by me or by Apple its going to be sold. I can live with the 7.

#4

That’s a bugger! Probably unrelated, but iCloud has had a number of outages over the last week. I haven’t noticed anything myself, but I’ve been reading about it.

#5

Yeah I even tried logging out of icloud then back in again which fixed the issues I had when I was switching sims about to test the whole thing… didnt help. Nor did any resets, or even a full restore. I’ll make a genius appointment for next week. Might even see about trading up to a 12 mini. Need to do sums first.

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#6

Oh I can be such a drongo. Whilst not ideal, the full restore appears to have worked :slight_smile: no Geniuses required :slight_smile: I am still going to sell, though, I want a 12 of the mini kind.

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