The new texting app that “reverse-engineered” a way into Apple’s iMessage network appears to have hit a snag.
Beeper Mini’s key feature — allowing Android phones to send texts on Apple’s iMessage service — appears to have gone down during its first week of operation.
Following reports from Beeper Mini users that messages weren’t sending or receiving on Friday, a post from the app’s X account said the team is now investigating why the iMessage integration is no longer working for sending or receiving texts. During my own testing of the Beeper Mini app Friday, attempting to send a text results in your message not being sent and an error message stating “failed to lookup on server: lookup request timed out.”
Beeper Mini’s feature allowing users to unlink a phone number from Apple’s iMessage network may also be interrupted during the outage, which may lead to affected customers missing out on texts from an iPhone that’s trying to reach out over iMessage.
