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Text message being written becomes scrambled while composing message in Messages

Hello,


While writing messages in Messages, the message that's being written often becomes jumbled (letters switched around, punctuation removed, letters replaced with commas and apostrophes).


This seems to happen once the text message has become a few sentences in length, although it doesn't happen all the time.


I have noticed this issue for the past few years, through the different releases of macOS - currently Monterey 12.2.1.


In the past, I've tried turning the computer off and resetting SMC/PRAM - this is a MacBook Pro 15" 2017


Has anyone else experienced this? Does anyone have a solution? It seems this issue isn't common, as I've searched for information about it and haven't found relevant results.


Thank you

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.2

Posted on Feb 17, 2022 12:07 PM

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Posted on Feb 17, 2022 12:24 PM

Try booting to Safe Mode. That boot up takes minutes and clears caches and other things that may resolve your problem.

How to use safe mode on your Mac - Apple Support

A lot of times just boot to Safe Mode followed by normal boot resolves problems.

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Text message being written becomes scrambled while composing message in Messages

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