Can’t send messages? How to fix?

“I cannot send a text message. I can receive them though? I can also do everything else as usual on my phone, such as sending and receiving iMessages and calls etc!”

Did you meet the problem on your iPhone that you can not send the messages? Text message are commonly used in our daily life. If you can not send messages, that would be a panic thing. Never mind, here we will provide some solutions for you to solve the trouble that if your iPhone can not send messages. You could follow them one by one to check if they can fix your problem.

Restart Device

Press the power button on the top or right side of your device to restart the device. This would be the simple and easy way to solve some problems in your device, including iPhone can’t send messages.

Check SMS Sending is Enabled

Most iPhone users have iMessages enabled, but some may have accidentally( or intentionally) turned off SMS support. Follow below steps to check if SMS sending is turned on.

1.Go to Settings> Messages
2.Scroll down to find Send as SMS to turn on this position( if it is already on, try turning it off for about 10 seconds an then turn it back on again.)
3.Try to send messages again.



Reset Network Settings

Reset network settings is annoying because you lose Wi-Fi passwords and custom DNS, but it can be a cure-all solution for many common networking issues with iPhone.

1.Go to Settings> General
2. Scroll down to find and tap on Reset, then select Reset Network Settings
3. Confirm to reset network settings, this will reboot the iPhone



This will fix iPhone can not send messages problem if it is caused by weird networking issues.

Restore and Reset iPhone

The completely solution is set up your iPhone as a new one. It can be an incredible pain in the apps, but if you have a significant and continual problem, and nothing else can fix it, setting up as new can be a solution.

But before you do the reset on your iPhone, do not forget to backup your iPhone data to iTunes or iCloud. You will have to set up almost everything again, including passwords and settings. All of your data on your iPhone will be erased as well.

How to recover lost data due to reset iPhone?

Can these solutions help you? You could share your way to fix can’t send messages with us.

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