On Monday, Beeper Mini began working once more however with out telephone quantity assist. That workaround seems to be lifeless two days later, which is simply in keeping with what Apple stated to anticipate over the weekend.
On Wednesday night, Beeper shared that it’s “investigating stories that some customers can not obtain iMessages on Beeper Mini and Beeper Cloud.”
Beeper tells us {that a} extra restricted variety of individuals are impacted this night. Particularly, Apple is stated to be “blocking iMessages from being delivered to ~5% of Beeper Mini customers.” The workaround is uninstalling and reinstalling Beeper Mini if you happen to’re affected. A broader “repair” is coming: “We received’t have a repair tonight, however we’re engaged on it.” Final week, the power to ship messages was additionally unavailable.
It comes as Beeper this morning pushed the workaround to the Google Play Retailer after beforehand requiring customers to manually set up the Android app from its web site. That entry solely permits iMessage by way of Apple ID, with Beeper pulling its $2 per thirty days subscription till telephone quantity assist is restored. As of right now, the corporate is nonetheless engaged on that.
On Saturday, Apple stated it “will proceed to make updates sooner or later to guard our customers,” thus establishing this cat-and-mouse recreation of continued reverse engineering.
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