IMessage waiting for activation: Apple Support Communities Apple's Discussion groups have many complaints about "waiting for activation". I would love to know what AT&T thinks of it, and whether those thoughts are printable in a family blog.Īlas, not everything is quite perfect in iMessage and iOS 5.01. Siri is nice (more on that in Gordon's Notes, soon), but iMessage is the biggest thing in iOS 5. For our family, discontinuing our $30 month texting plan and using a combination of iMessage, Facebook Messenger and Google Voice/Text more than pays for my son's data plan and old 3GS. In a world where SMS fees exceed AT&T's mandatory minimal $15/month 200MB/mo data plans, iMessage is subversive. (You can tell AT&T to turn off all but 'administrative texting' if you want to avoid spam SMS and spam SMS fees.) You will still receive SMS messages (20 cents each, including spam text), but at least you won't send any. You may want to do this, for example, if you choose not to pay for AT&T's extortionary "unlimited" plans. In an optional mode you can disable SMS/MMS messaging and go purely iMessage. iMessaging is the default when it's supported by the receiving device you can see what will be used before you compose a message.
In standard mode it supports SMS/MMS messaging as well as iMessage texting. That's like WhatsApp.app, but WhatsApp only works on a iPhone with an active voice service!
On non-phone iOS devices iMessage provides non-SMS (iMessage) texting services to other iMessage users over either WiFi or, if supported, 3G services.
It's available as part of iOS 5 for iPod Touch, iPad and iPhone 3Gs, 4 or 4S.
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