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Release: Australia · Updated: 2026-03-12 · Official documentation · View source

SMS Statuses

Every Twilio SMS message request has a status value which describes the current state of the message. Use this information for troubleshooting SMS related incidents/ issues. Here are few descriptions of possible statuses of SMS sent from Notify through Twilio REST API.

StatusDescription
queuedThe message has been queued by the provider to be sent to the carrier network.
acceptedThe message is being processed by the provider before sending it to the carrier network.
sendingThe message is being forwarded to the carrier network.
sentThe message has been successfully forwarded to the carrier network.
receivingThe provider has received an incoming message from the carrier network and is processing it.
receivedServiceNow has received the incoming message from the provider.
deliveredThe message has been delivered to the target device.Note: A provider may not be able to report this status if the upstream carrier does not report this.
undeliveredThe message could not be delivered to the target device.Note: A provider may not be able to report this status if the upstream carrier does not report this.
failedThe message failed to be forwarded to the carrier network.
unknownThe driver does not support the status

Parent Topic:Using Notify with SMS