iMessage only showing the first letter of text messages since updating to iOS 17 (currently running 17.4.1)

My wife started having this on her iPhone ProMax 15 this morning:

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I’ve had the same problem since the update. It’s disgraceful and has gone on far too long. Apple should have fixed this immediately. Shame on them.

My phone messaging is also showing only the first letter of messages, randomly. Is there an update to fix this?

Turning sideways works for me @Apple PLEASE FIX!

Has anyone responded to the question why in a text message we only see one character

Reducing my font size corrected this problem. 😄

Same here. Called apple support. He was v good. Went into some random click and unclicked “bold” for text. Problem solved!!

It’s happening to me on both iMessages and SMS! We shouldn’t have to change our font size to fix it.

This same prob just started for me in May. So annoying. No one seems to have a fix.

I am having the same problem

My phone is used 100% for my work, it is imperative that I see my messages , which I Cannot. Only the first letter

when will this annoying issue be fixed??

Same thing is happening for me.

I concur fully , all of these workarounds do not work. ,, it may work one day and then the next day it comes back.

I just spoke with Apple support and in troubleshooting have found out that if BOLD is on in your messages then it will not show your complete message. We mess around with font size and bold and it appears that when we took bold off that no matter what size we made the font, the complete message showed up. I’m going to try to link a message from Apple to this, but I’m not sure I know how to do it and it will explain it much better than I can

BOLD has never been on, for my phone!!

Apple rep is out to lunch. That is NOT, the fix. Apple just put out an update. Why wasn't a fix for this problem included?!!!