Mac Messages Splitting Named Group Chat Into Unnamed But Same Group

A group chat in Mac Messages on my Macbook Pro is suddenly splitting incoming messages between the named group, and a newly created group with the same members, but without the group name.

This is only on the laptop - on my iPhone, everything files correctly under the named group. On the laptop, it's seemingly random in how it routes new chats to this unnamed group it auto-created.

It may be a bug with Sonoma 14.6.1 as I can't remember this occurring before the update.

Anyone else experiencing similar, or know how to solve?

Any help would be appreciated! Thanks.

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 14.6

Posted on Aug 18, 2024 5:35 PM

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DJFraggle

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Posted on Aug 20, 2024 8:09 AM

Just another bit of info if it helps. Some of the chats have my own name included at the top & the bubble, the others don't. I think it's only happening with chats that have iOS & Android clients.

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Oct 6, 2024 9:36 AM in response to JLSELWYN

Updated to Mac OS 15.0 Sequoia, and the issue persists. Same as others here, if I receive an SMS from an Android user, Messages creates a thread with that person—and showing myself as an additional recipient—that's separate from the main thread I have with that contact.

Everything is still synced properly in the single contact thread in iOS iMessage; this only affects Mac OS Messages.

Mac Messages Splitting Named Group Chat Into Unnamed But Same Group