How to Fix Message Blocking Is Active on iPhone

When sending a message from iPhone have you encountered an error “Free Msg: Unable to send message – Message Blocking is active“. If this is the error which you are currently experiencing while sending out a message from your iPhone, then here are the solutions for it to get it fixed immediately.

Before getting out to the solutions, lets first understand what does “Message Blocking Is Active” error mean?

What Is Message Blocking Is Active

Message Blocking Is Active is an error which is encountered while you try to send an SMS to your contact or a number. This error means currently you are being blocked to send SMS from your iPhone to a specific contact or all number depending upon the current condition. The Message Blocking Is Active error may occur due to numerous reasons, so now lets get on to the solutions to fix it out as soon as possible.

Fixing Message Blocking Is Active

While sending message from your iPhone, if you encounter “free msg unable to send message message blocking is active”, then here are few solutions which you may try out to get it fixed.

Cellular Provider

The main and common culprit of the error Message Blocking Is Active could be your Cellular Provider. Sometimes the Cellular Provider might have enabled message blocking on your connection, so you need to get in touch with your cellular provider customer care and get the message block disabled if it is enabled by them.

However few cellular network operator also have the option to enable and disable message block in their respective apps or from website. For e.g. in T Mobile cellular operator we found these settings to disable the Message Blocking.

• Open the T Mobile app or Login to your T Mobile Online Portal
• Scroll down the page and tap on All Account Settings
• Scroll down the All Account Settings page and tap on block calls and messages
• Tap on Block Messages
• If any of the message category is blocked then then turn off blocking

Blocked Contact

If you are facing difficulty in sending message to only specific contacts on your iPhone, then those specific contacts might be marked as blocked. To check if the contact is blocked and whether you are facing the Unable to send message error due to this issue then here are the steps.

Open the Messages app

Select the contact you have problem sending message

Tap on the Profile Picture

Tap on the Info

Under Info at the bottom if you are able to see Unblock Caller than this means the contact is blocked

To unblock tap on the Unlock Caller

Now you would be able to send SMS on the specific unblocked contact.

Enable SMS Access

If in any case SMS Access is disabled you may experience the Message Blocking Is Active error. To troubleshoot if the error occurred due to this issue:

Open Settings

Scroll down the page and tap on Apps

Scroll down the Apps page and tap on Messages

Scroll down the page and enable Send as Text Message if it is not enabled.

Incorrect Date and Time

If you iPhone is set to incorrect date and time then it may mess up with the app functionality. To fix:

Open Settings

Tap on General

Under General Page Scroll down and tap on Date and Time

Make sure Set Automatically is toggled ON

This will make your iPhone to operate on correct time zone, syncing properly with location servers.

Airplane Mode

Toggling through Airplane Mode could quickly fix any issues on your iPhone. To do so:

Swipe down the Control Center and Turn On the Airplane Mode

After Few Minutes Turn off the Airplane Mode

This will do a quick network refresh

Restart iPhone

Sometimes a restart could save you from lot of issues on your iPhone. And this Message Blocking Is Active error could be fixed too, to do so.

Press Volume Up

Quickly Press Volume Down

Hold the Side Button or Power Button until

Don’t slide to power off, keep holding until the screen goes black and the Apple Logo appears.

Reset Network Settings

If still the problem persists sending message from iPhone, reset the network settings. To do so follow the below steps:

Open Settings

Tap on General

Scroll down the General page and tap on Transfer or Reset iPhone

From the Transfer or Reset iPhone tap on the Reset button

From the Reset options tap on Reset Network Settings

Again tap on Reset Network Settings

Enter your iPhone Passcode

This will reset the network settings.