Strange results with text groups with mixed Apple and Android members

Unfortunately Apple calls the messages "forwarded", so while they show up properly on your phone, they are "forwarded" to you on your other Apple products, hence the dual thread. If we want to keep the whole conversation intact, we can only respond/reply using our phones. This started for me when I installed the newest OS on my iMac and I sure hope Apple fixes fit soon.

I just got a new laptop and have applecare as well. Curious what they say. When I talked to apple support last week, they advised to reinstall the OS because they thought it was a coding error in my user profile after setting up a test user and same thing happening.

Hi Rick, not sure if your question is for me, but yes, no amount of deleting of threads has eliminated the "splitting." I text my two best friends overnight on my phone and it's fine on the phone. When I just opened up my laptop now, there is a split. The orginal thread with my responses only and their responses (an iphone and an android) in a separate thread. When I text back on original thread on laptop, it's again fine on my phone. If one or both of them respond, their responses on the laptop only are in the split thread (with me as an "additional" user.) Blocking myself has not worked.

Nope. They split on phone, on iPad, on iMac. I'm using messages in iCloud so they should all be identical. Interestingly, the splits are different on different devices. IOW, various messages, from me, or from other show up in different threads, or conversations as Apple call them. On some devices I can see that I am listed in the group, on one of the conversation. That is not normal and I think it's a significant clue.

I'm having this issue too, but it is not consistent across devices. I'm using messages in iCloud on all devices, so they should be same. But at moment I have group text split into two threads/conversations on iPad, but they are together on iPhone. Thanks for the tip about the people list. It looks like the normal situation is that I am not listed in that list. But on the group that is shown twice I am listed in one of them. Weird.

No oddly they wanted to reinstall OS after test user error! And I agree I’d enough people are reporting same issue they will need a bug fix. There are similar threads in Reddit as well on this issue. All in last two weeks.

Thanks for update, Rick. I have repeatedly cleared my whole text history (all texts not even those with problems) and started new threads. Doesn't work. And the other users in the thread don't have problems and the texts on their end are all still there with history.

PMFJI but if you try to start a 'new' thread with same people, it shows the 'old' thread before you can even start typing the message. This is normal behavior.

This new issue (groups splitting into two threads) started about a week ago. I can respond to either of them and the rest of the group sees my replies.

I recall years ago, one person in the group had an old flip phone, and when they replied, it would send individual texts to each person in the group. That was equally weird but not related to the current issue.

Currently I'm seeing two different groups of people splitting into two threads. Both groups have a mix of android and IOS users. IMO messaging should give us users more control to edit group list, especially we should be able to leave a group. We are reduced to groveling to the entire group to please please pleas start a new thread without us, cuz as long as they keep responding to that one, we'll keep getting them. Blocking isn't an option cuz these are friends and families. Apple could give us a filter function as a checkbox on a group text. They would arrive silently and be pushed off to a separate folder.

yup. me too