iPhone 12 not receiving group texts

Verizon admitted to me today that it’s a known issue and said Apple is working on it. I agree it seems to happen when it’s a mix of iPhone and non iPhone users in the group but it’s not limited to which user’s texts get dropped.

It was happening with iOS 14.1. I upgraded to 14.2 last night and it’s still happening today

So I had the same issue where I was not getting a text message from a certain contact but I was receiving it on my older phone (pixel 2 XL). Was pulling some hairs out and then i noticed there was a settings pull down on the pixel messages app that was still getting messages sent to the phone. I disabled messaging and that fixed the problem for me.

Two day old 12 Pro Max here on 14.2, set up as new with no restores from the old phone or anything.

Group messages in general are really screwed up, it’s not just ones with SMS users. I have several that are iMessage users only and I’m missing messages in the app even though I sometimes see them come in as a notification banner. It like it never “prints” inside the actual conversation in the app. Also having issues with these groups disappearing from the pinned list at the top randomly or splitting into two sets of messages both with the same group name.

Hope this gets fixed soon, it’s super buggy and I kinda can’t believe this stuff wasn’t caught in testing.

I have had this issue since Jump Street. 12 Pro. Verizon. Done literally everything here 3 times over to no avail. Elevated tech support from both apple and Verizon. No luck.

I hate to risk karma by saying this, but what DID help and has held for 5 days at this point is installing the 14.3 developer beta. Yes, I know there is nothing in the change log about fixing this issue. But there must be something about the new iOS software and the phone hardware combo that seems to work now. Your experience is likely to be different so no promises. Just saying that so far so good for me working on the better part of a week. Hopefully the wide release of 14.3 will offer some relief to the rest of you.

This is not a carrier issue; it’s an iPhone 12 problem. I set up my iPhone 12 Pro two days ago as an upgrade from a 6s running iOS 14.1, and had my first missed message today. The telling fact is that the message came in just fine on my Apple Watch 4 running in tethered mode. The watch does not have a cellular subscription and was not on a network at the time. That means that my phone received the message from the carrier, transferred it to the watch, but did not display it in messages.

For reference, I’m on Verizon. I hope Apple gets this fixed soon.

https://www.macrumors.com/2020/11/19/apple-releases-ios-14-2-1/?fbclid=IwAR3DPIusV9wIMBJynDxmIYsXdw7A00rV9uoBt6Ebt_S7v9iQzOohhHeN_4Y

I think Apple finally heard us! Downloading it now. fingers crossed!

Having the same issue still Dec. 3rd. I've been in contact with Apple Support as well as my provider (Ting on the Sprint Network). TLDR Apple said their engineering team is working on figuring out the problem. The issue specifically seems to be iPhone 12 receiving messages from Android users in group threads.

On Verizon, tried replacing the SIM without luck. Found this on an old Verizon forum post, and seems to be sort of working. Using the MyVerizon app, you can unenroll from HD calling as an “add on.” I toggled this off and on and I’m now receiving SOME SMS messages, but not all.

The best way to get this fixed is if everyone who writes into this forum will send a bug report to Apple at the following address…

https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

Be sure to put your iOS version in the subject field, because the drop-down for iOS versions doesn’t include iOS 14.2 or later. Leave the drop-down box blank.

Did you try removing your phone number from your google account? I had the same problem - then I removed my number from my gmail accounts even Remove it from

the account recovery portion of gmail on your new phone. *dont freak out* you can add it back again from your new device. It literally fixed everything for me, and I keep saying that in here and nobody is listening to meeee.

try it, I bet it works.

merry Christmas!

I have tried unfollowing this thread 4 times and they just keep adding me back! Apple will do nothing about this, it seems. My issue was primarily iMessage related and I think I resolved it by turning off iMessage, power cycling the phone, and then turning iMessage back on. Some messages I was missing started to populate after a few minutes. Others had success, however random it may seem, by removing their Gmail info from their account. At the end of the day, all I really want is to stop getting e-mails about this godforsaken thread :(.

Public version of 14.2 just released, just read its a version up from the RC. Downloading now. Lets see if it makes any difference.

Has anyone tried turning off 5G? I’ve heard that fixes it. Tried myself but haven’t had any non-iMessage texts yet.

What I do to test is turn off iMessage and send yourself an MMS message. If it’s working properly I get it back right away. Otherwise it takes 12 hours to come back to me

I had this issue too. I went to settings > messages > text message forwarding

and make sure your iPhone is on. Then reboot your phone.