‘Nasty’ iPhone 13 bug is causing FaceTime and iMessage to deactivate

The iPhone’s eSIM is meant to be a hassle-free approach to activate your Apple system, however a newly found bug is inflicting complications for iPhone customers. Based on a flurry of reviews, the iPhone’s eSIM is triggering FaceTime and iMessage deactivations with no identified repair apart from to change SIMs.

The difficulty first got here to mild when famous Apple leaker Mark Gurman tweeted about it. As he describes, FaceTime and iMessage had been deactivated on his T-Cell iPhone, and makes an attempt to reactivate them had been unsuccessful. After talking to a T-Cell consultant, the one answer was to swap the eSIM with a bodily nano-SIM card.

A number of folks replied to his message with related accounts, together with customers on different U.S. carriers and in numerous nations. One person stated he has “the very same downside” with Vodaphone within the U.Okay. One other person reported the identical concern with Airtel in India.

The frequent denominators with the difficulty seem like the iPhone 13 and iOS 15.4. In most situations, swapping out the eSIM for a bodily SIM fastened the difficulty. Apple help doesn’t seem to have the ability to repair the difficulty on their finish, so in the event you expertise it, your greatest guess is to contact your provider for help.

Apple is reportedly conscious of the difficulty and dealing on a repair. iOS 15.5 doesn’t seem to have fastened the issue, and it’s unclear whether or not the iOS 15.6 beta that simply arrived this week comprises a repair.