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I contacted Apple and received following advice. Just be warned: You will lose connection and password to wifi, so be sure to be ready for that. (Although my phone found the wifi just fine after logged back in).
The order is important.
In settings, Turn off FaceTime. Turn off iMessage. Sign out of iCloud at bottom of name screen in Settings.
Go to Settings>General>Reset>Reset Network settings.
Once have reset network. Log back into iCloud. Turn on FaceTime. Turn on iMessage.
IF this is too confusing, call Apple tech at 1-800-MYAPPLE. Had to wait awhile, but got great person that walked me through. So far, this has fixed it.
Didn’t work for me - or at least only temporarily. Messages are still coming in out of order with iOS 11.2.2 for me.
Stop sending messages to clairvoyant recipients. 😁
Resolved it for me too on multiple devices (iPhones and iPads) immediately. None of the other suggested solutions worked.
Ok, I take back that it worked. The 11.2.2 worked for 2 days and my messages are back to out of order AGAIN!
I'll be watching for it to revert -- so far so good though. I wonder if it only worked temporarily, because the phone went through a reset for the update?
Mine worked for a couple days. Texts are our of order again.
This works for a few days, then the problem sadly reoccurs
It reverted back to the problem for me yesterday too. Damnit. It is so hard to follow a conversation. I think I'm going to have to turn off iMessage completely.
I’m curious if anyone with an iPhone 8 or X is experiencing this issue ?
I have the same issue and have done all of the updates. Hope it gets fixed soon. Pretty annoying.
It’s not just iMessage. Same thing happens in Skype on the iPhone. It’s seems like it’s a date/time issue in the latest iOS. I haven’t checked other messaging apps.
I’ve been having this issue since some time in December and it doesn’t seem to go away.
Apple Support, please react or at least respond
@cougarwoman, thank you for the detailed instructions!
Did the procedure, will monitor for the behavior.
Still thinking Apple should provide an update with the fix..
Actually ... the problem is across all platforms associated with iMessage. Please do some research before your post again.
There is ZERO relationship between IOS and MacIOS internals.
iMessage - messages arriving in wrong order
