message disappears after hitting Send (and is not sent or received)

I’ve discovered it only happens with copy and paste from an email , not from a web article. Also if I do copy and paste from an email , if I add some other text along with it, it’ll go through.

Hey transistorboy,

Given the steps you've taken to isolate this issue to between the Mail and Messages app and the fact it's repeatable, we'd advise contacting Apple Support directly to take a closer look.

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Take care.

The same thing happens for me. It doesn’t happen every time… maybe about 70 % of the time. Apparently this problem happens to many, many others. Perhaps the vast majority of users don’t compose text messages this way, and that is why Apple doesn’t seem to care. It is disappointing to see an iOS update after update where Apple simply moves buttons to different locations on the screen (as if that is a big improvement), but doesn’t fix stuff like this. Very frustrating to see cosmetic changes in updates, but real problems like this are ignored. Sorry for the venting!

Happens with gmail too.

Did you ever find a fix to this issue? I’m also running into this when copying text from a draft email and pasting it into an iMessage to text to someone.