Apple releases first fix for iPhone 14 iMessage and FaceTime activation errors

Today is the release day of the iPhone 14, but some of the early adopters struggled to activate the phone due to a bug in iOS 16.

A bug that was quickly fixed prevented iMessage and FaceTime from being activated if the new iPhone owner set up their device on an open Wi-Fi network.

While this won’t affect that many users, it will prevent the phone from fully activating out of the box on day one and prevent users from sending or receiving iMessage and FaceTime calls. It might even reset the horrible messages in green instead of blue.

Oh God! It’s almost like an Android phone! Not what you want when you just parted ways with thousands for your new phone!

BUT mail Apple support site says:

• After setting up your iPhone, you may experience one or more of the following issues:
• You cannot receive iMessages or FaceTime calls.
• You see a green message instead of blue when you send a message to another Apple device.
• Conversations in Messages appear as two separate threads instead of one.
• Recipients see that your messages are coming from the wrong account, such as your email address if you have selected a phone number.

So, Apple released iOS 16.0.1 to fix this issue as a day one update to fix this issue, but naturally, it only applies to iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Pro owners.

In a memo peeped MacRumorsApple acknowledged that “There is a known issue with iOS 16 that may affect device activation on open Wi-Fi networks.”

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