Text messages are not in order and I am not getting notified of new text messages

I encountered this problem after updating to iOS 11.2 on an iPhone 6. Only with iMessage. What seems to have worked thus far: turn off iMessage. Turn on airplane mode. Power off. Wait a few minutes. Power back on. Turn airplane mode off. Send a few messages as plain text messages. Verify those are working correctly. Turn iMessage back on. Again, send messages to see if it is working properly again. So far so good for me.

Hey guys!!! I had the same issue and have now fixed it. I hope it works for you too. My phone date and time was always set to manual, and I had my phone set 10 minutes ahead of actual time. I reluctantly have set it back to automatic and this is not showing texts in correct order. It won’t re-order any old text messages but everything since I’ve made the change is now in order. Let me know if this is successful for you :)

Same problem here, and the time setting has not fixed it. The alerts don’t work either. When I first noticed this I thought maybe my cell data was slow, and since I rarely have long-term conversations on text it wasn’t always noticeable; but, as I texted back and forth today with someone as an experiment for this specific issue, I watched as replies popped up above my older texts. This is a bug. Apple fix this, please.

I’m having the same issue. My date and time setting has always been automatic. I’ve tried all the suggestions I’ve read from these forums and nothing works. It gets really hard to follow a conversation when all responses are listed before the questions. Apple please figure this out and fix this text message glitch.

RE: text message conversations are all out of order. iOS 11.2.1 iPhone 6 SE

This worked for me. Thank you! It was my region that was not set correctly. I had it set for the U.S. instead of Canada. I was fixated on the time as others had stated that was the problem and it needed to be set to automatic, which mine was. I finally checked my region...and ta da =fixed!! Thanks again! Hope this helps others. Check time AND region. 😉

I had the same problem with the update for iOS 11.2. It turns out that once the downloading starts, you have to stay in the “Software Update” section for your phone to finish downloading and installing the update.

***For example: it’s like the “YouTube” app or website. Once you leave the YouTube page or exit the app, the video & audio stops playing.***

The iOS update works the same way.

My iPhone didn’t notify me that the update wasn’t 100% downloaded. I assumed the iOS update would happen on its own, because in older versions of the iPhone, the update ran automatically once you pressed “install”.

So go to your “Setting App” > General > Software Update. And you’ll notice that the iOS downloading isn’t finished. So stay in the “Software Update” section

for it to finish because the update process stops once you leave.

Hi! I had a very similar problem and I managed to fix it by setting my date on automatic, And then deleting everyone off my phone as a whole and then texting them using their number after. For me it only was happening for a few people so I only had to delete two people off and add them again so it wasn’t too much of a hassle

Happened on my wife’s 7, I turned off Settings > General > Time > Automatically off, restarted phone, turned it back on and it’s fixed. On my son’s 6s Plus I did the latest iOS update and that fixed it for him.

I can help you with the text messages not in order part of your question. luckily our new employee worked in the technical support dept for Apple. She told me next time the iOS pops up DO NOT updated via iPhone. Go to your computer and open iTunes, connect your phone with iTunes sync, backup, & update iOS. Once I did that, problem solved!

Has anyone solved this problem already?

I’m having the same issues. Are solves yet?

Same issue here..any resolution?

Hi, this happened in my ip7 too.

Try to set your date and time into automatic. That should resolve the issue.

You’re welcome 😉

It has always been automatic, didn’t work

Any solutions yet ??