Imessage

[j-pearce]

I am trying to get imessage to work on my new phone, it will only connect to my apple ID, it wont connect to my phone number it just says waiting activation 

[Enlli]

This comes up on all of the networks forums, especially when porting in numbers. 

Found this some time back with a number of suggestions

https://toomanyadapters.com/imessages-switch-sim-cards/

[MI5]

@j-pearce 

Resetting your network settings usually sorts it out.

[Dave_abz]

I had the exact same issue , o2 told me it was the phone and to get in touch with Apple !! I put another sim (Vodafone) in the handset and it worked fine ?? I then swapped back to the o2 sim and it’s now working fine ,, might be worth a try if u have access to another sim ?