- Joined
- Apr 7, 2012
- Messages
- 19
- Motherboard
- Gigabyte Z490 Vision G
- CPU
- i5 10600
- Graphics
- RX 580
I have some updates in my case. I posted a message months ago here, I was facing the same issue, followed the guide and set up everything fine, but iMessage and Facetime don't care and refused to login, providing me the customer code. I tried calling assistance but it wasn't working. Waited months. Yesterday I updated from 13.1 to 13.2, (with a lot of pain, it wasn't working at first because I didn't see they updated apfs... I've got to restore 3 times using recovery and auto backup of time machine) and after the update it asked me to change my password when I fired up iMessages, I did it, and it logged in, now everything is working fine. I don't know why, but I thought my experience maybe could help someone.
To sum up the steps were :
Download update (& force update graphic driver before rebooting for my nvidia card)
failed the update (coz of apfs)
reverted back to 13.1 using recovery and automatic backup done before the update
updated trough app store rather than manual, failed also (still apfs... :') )
another restore
used the non combo update
failed too
seen that update need updated apfs (never too late...)
installed apfs in efi using windows dual boot
booted fine to 13.2 but not supplemental
installed supplemental
failed (I don't know why)
restore agin
updated through app store rather than manual (& graphic drivers too)
rebooted
started iMessage, asked me to login, I logged in, asked me to change password, I did it
iMessage working
logged in FaceTime : working also
I hope you will succeed too
After about four years of getting the "unable to sign into iMessage here's an activation code. Call Apple" error my iMessage and FaceTime suddenly started working last week (as did my daughter's). It asked me to update my password and that seemed to do it.
Anyone else had this?