iMessage not syncing on Mac

Ember1205 · Sep 14, 2016

Mencelus said:
Probably give it a whirl and then, yeah, I'll have to maybe contact an Apple person about it. Sigh.

At the very least, you could set up a whole new iCloud account and try it for the purposes of getting the messages to sync. Additional things you could try would be to back up and reset the iOS devices and try a new user account on the Mac (with the same and with a new iCloud account to see if maybe there's an issue with a corrupt message or something).

ferrarr · Sep 14, 2016

Today, I decided to set this up on my MBP and my iPad Pro, it was set in 3 minutes using this Apple article, https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22363?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US. I'm sorry it's not working for you.

HungarianStan · Sep 15, 2016

ferrarr said:
Today, I decided to set this up on my MBP and my iPad Pro, it was set in 3 minutes using this Apple article, https://support.apple.com/kb/PH22363?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US. I'm sorry it's not working for you.

Thing is, it worked before. Right up until August 15th. Then it stopped, apparently. Can't get the Text Forwarding code to appear at all (though, as I said, it does for my iPad). So, this sucks, truly.

Ember1205 · Sep 15, 2016

Try creating a new user account on the Mac and logging in to iMessage there with your ID (sign out on your 'real' user account first). See what happens.

HungarianStan · Sep 16, 2016

Ember1205 said:
Try creating a new user account on the Mac and logging in to iMessage there with your ID (sign out on your 'real' user account first). See what happens.

Interesting you said that. I just found out that my iMessage on iPhone won't let me sign in with my apple id onto iMessage in the phone; it says I need to verify my address, but my address is shown as verified on Manage My Account in iCloud. So now I'm really confused. What to do?

Ember1205 · Sep 16, 2016

Hmmm

Sign out, shut down, restart, try signing in again?

I don't see anywhere in iCloud or Apple ID management to show that an address is verified, so I'm not sure where you were seeing it.

HungarianStan · Sep 16, 2016

Ember1205 said:
Hmmm

Sign out, shut down, restart, try signing in again?

I don't see anywhere in iCloud or Apple ID management to show that an address is verified, so I'm not sure where you were seeing it.

I'm not seeing it, but some of the websites I read on the issue seemed to think I should. They were two years old though, so very possible they are out of date, of course.

HungarianStan · Sep 21, 2016

Just an update - on a whim, I finally decided to get on chat with Apple. While doing that and waiting for it to connect, I tried, once more, to get the Text Forwarding Code to work, and viola, it did. But I don't know why. After a week of trying, it suddenly started to work. Weird.

Ember1205 · Sep 21, 2016

Mencelus said:
Just an update - on a whim, I finally decided to get on chat with Apple. While doing that and waiting for it to connect, I tried, once more, to get the Text Forwarding Code to work, and viola, it did. But I don't know why. After a week of trying, it suddenly started to work. Weird.

Glad you are back to a working state. I have had similar, quirky experiences with my iCloud account in the past and have reached a point where it starts working correctly again but don't really know why.