iMessage - messages arriving in wrong order

So far so good! no bug since that update today.

Yes, same here, yay :)

Thank you Colee1. It works for me!

I upgraded to 11.3 and I still see the issue: messages are not in the right order, answers to questions appear before the question in discussions.

I have the same problem. It started around the same time you guys noticed it and has not been fixed yet. Both my wife and I experience the same issue. iPhone 6s + iPhone 6s plus, iOS 11.2.6

There will probably never be a real solution. This is probably there way of replacing torched battery life.

Mine is still doing it. My iOS is up to date

Plus 1. iPhone 6 on iOS 11.2.1. On quick conversations often the reply shows before the question I asked, this is extremely annoying. This has got to be a bug on the new(er) iOS. I imagine the phone is sorting the messages by timestamp and the times on the phones involved might be slightly off and is causing this issue. How hard is it to just put messages in the order they are sent or received?

I found that if I reset my iPhone 6 plus (power + home button), the conversation will go back to the correct order. The downside is that eventually conversations will return to an out of order state. Simply stated, the clocks don't match (even though they should) on the sender and receiver. iMessage is doing the correct thing by inserting the message where it belongs in order of time. Resetting my device seems to align my iPhone clock to the correct time, resulting in messages in the correct order.

Apple?

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063I am returning to this thread--I posted a couple of months ago that I had the problem on my laptop and phone. The phone has somehow fixed itself, but the laptop never has. Yesterday I called Apple support and spoke with a woman who had never heard that anyone had this problem (and she checked with a senior tech who had ALSO never heard--what the heck, nearly 7K people have said they have the problem on this question.)

ANWYAY she gave me a solution that seems to have worked, so far. First I made a test account and checked to see whether that account had the problem: No.

Then she had me reset the NVRAM on my Mac.

And that seems to have fixed it.

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Same here. Super annoying. iPhone 6S, iOS 11.2.1. Happening with 1:1 iMessage conversations and group conversations. Started today from what I can tell (12/24).

None of these things help. It is happening both on my iphone SE (new this summer) and my MacBookAir. And they aren't always the same!!