If you're an iPhone owner, you might be familiar with this experience. You're having a back-and-forth conversation with your friend over iMessage, when suddenly there's a lull and your blue bubbles ...

Thousands of Apple device users reported experiencing issues while using iMessage on Thursday afternoon. Over 13,000 iMessage outages were reported as of just after 6 p.m. ET, according to outage ...

If the Messages app stopped sending, loading, or opening correctly on your iPhone 17 after iOS 26.3, the update may have damaged carrier settings, iMessage activation, app data, or network routing.