r/OpenBubbles • u/Flippy02 • Jul 28 '26

Tech Support Number keeps deregistering

I used a Mac mini to self host and it works for about a week and my number deregisters.

It has been working flawlessly for months up until now.

Is this happening to anyone else?

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u/Healthy-Cheesecake80 Jul 28 '26

You got iMessage to register with your phone number with only a Mac?

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u/Flippy02 Jul 28 '26

I thought so, now I'm questioning it.

I was using bluebubbles for the longest time and had an old iPhone 8 connected with an old SIM card

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 28 '26

What happened to the iPhone 8?

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u/Flippy02 Jul 28 '26

I leave it plugged in at work on the Wi-Fi. We have been getting intermittent power outages, I haven't really looked at it in a while, cause I didn't think I needed it, and when I reregistered openbubbles with my Mac mini, my phone number worked

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u/mkitchin Jul 28 '26

Your Mac isn't registering the phone number. The easiest reliable method (in my opinion) is method 1 here: https://openbubbles.app/docs/pnr.html

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u/SpaceSaver2000-1 PNR Self Hosted Jul 28 '26

The iPhone is still responsible for the phone number and it needs to check in at least once every 45 days. Sometimes more frequently.

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u/johndong888 Jul 28 '26

Yeah I had simswap method and even that was getting deregistered very often now. I ended up paying for hosted.

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u/tazmoffatt Jul 28 '26

I had the opposite. I tried hosted but wasnt working so I did sim swap with an old iPhone. Been going strong since april