Disable or modify settings for your third-party app, VPN, or firewall that is limiting Signal's connection to the internet.Re-enable permissions and settings on your phone.Confirm you are connected to the internet.The most common reason why you can't send messages is that you are not connected to the internet or have restricted Signal's internet access. Signal uses your phone's internet connection for all private communication. My message is stuck as Sending or spinning, what do I do? Follow the directions in the link from Apple just above.Here's what each message status indicates: See the Apple Support article Block phone numbers, contacts, and emails on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.įinally, if it’s one of those five digit codes messaging you, it’s unlikely to already be in your Contacts, and so, assuming your Mac and iPhone/iPad share the same Apple ID, it’s much easier to go do the block on the i-device. On your iOS or iPadOS device, block text messages without creating a new contact. Apple coyly admits this necessity as an innocent sounding Tip. If not, you’ll have to ::omg:: add that number as a contact, navigate to it as in step #2 above, then block it. One with a standard phone number might already be in your contacts. In the Blocked pane, click the Add button and enter the iMessage address you want to block.ĭid you catch the wrinkle? The sender must already be in your contacts.In the Messages app on your Mac, choose Messages > Preferences, then click iMessage.
Perhaps macOS 10.16 will, with a Catalyzed app, fix this terrible faux pas. Why this must be is hard to understand, but so be it. It’s not possible, in the Messages app in macOS to directly block a sender from within the message itself. Here’s how to block a message sender on a Mac.įirst, some bad news on the macOS side, even including Catalina. These days, its even more likely that we’ll be getting more text messages, and many of those may be unwanted.
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