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Email app is displaying the email incorrectly as I type.

Earlier today, I updated to Sonoma 14.3, and it never happened before. It is happening the first time I've used the Mail app after updating.


Here's a detailed description of what I'm noticing:

As I'm writing an email in the Apple Mail app, it appears to be changing my message as I write it. Portions of the message are replaced with text that is copied from earlier in the email. A single line will be replaced with a line that came much earlier in the message. If I copy and past the full text, it will paste correctly with no issues. It's just in how the message is being displayed in app.


If I keep typing, the error glitches badly back and forth between the correct text and the duplicated text.


I'm on a MacBook Pro 2023 with the M2 chip.



Posted on Jan 30, 2024 4:31 PM

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Feb 6, 2024 11:22 AM in response to stephaniefromascot

Me too on this one. I had worked for about an hour on a rather long email and it has just been messed up like the above descriptions. I looked at settings and could not find anything that looked like a "feature" to help me write a text message, so I could turn it off. No luck there. But the email was minimized and when I brought back, the screwy text movements were gone. I have been able to continue without this problem appearing. So it may be one of those "bugs" that Apple figures out, you might write your longer messages in Word and copy over or minimize it to see if the problem corrects itself. I notice recently too and the Mail application was updated Jan 12, 2024.

Email app is displaying the email incorrectly as I type.

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