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My text messages are all out of order instead of going by most recent

My text messages all disappeared on their own one day and now my text message display is all out of order instead of by most recent. How do I fix this?

iPhone 5s, iOS 10.2.1

Posted on Mar 7, 2017 5:52 AM

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Posted on Apr 24, 2017 7:28 AM

Exact same thing happened to me. Many of my message threads were just gone one day and now, everything is out of order. The same person stays at the top of the list whether I received a text message from them a minute ago or a day ago. I have tried everything I could possibly think of to fix this issue to no avail. I have closed the app and restarted, I have turned iMessage on and off and then restarted, I have even done a full restore and backed up from iCloud. No dice. The really weird thing is that this is only happening on my phone, not my Mac or iPad. It is driving me absolutely crazy; would love a fix.

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Mar 27, 2018 6:13 AM in response to jayhawkjen44

This worked for me, but make sure once you turn off "set automatically" you restart your phone before you turn "set automatically" back on:


Settings

Select general settings

Select date and time

Turn off set automatically

Restart phone

Turn set automatically back on


I hope this helps

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My text messages are all out of order instead of going by most recent

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