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.
The issue seems to be resolved with the most recent update to iOS 11.2.2 My iMessages are nowsorting in the correct order.
I have an I-Phone 6. All I did was turn my cell phone completely Off for a few seconds, then back on, and this problem was cured!
Updated to iOS 11.2.2 and this corrected my issue
Upgrading to iOS 11.3 solved this issue for me, are you on 11.3?
I am having the same problems. Wrong order on multiple chats, with ios 11.2.1 on both ipad and iphone.
If I close the imessage app and open it again, the messages are sorted back to normal in the correct order. So it happens only, when people reply in a current conversation.
I hope, an update will fix it soon.
Same thing messages appearing in wrong order. Did hard reset and fixed it plus the past messages corrected themselves
This has happened to me twice and I just do a hard reset (press Home and reset together until phone restarts) and it has corrected it both times.
On Mac if you log out of iMessage, and then switch off Mac. Then re log it. It goes away
Jan
I also have the same issue and now it is March.
Solbes by closing the chat and re-open though...
I turned off iMessage in “Settings”, turned off phone and rebooted. I then turned iMessage back on. The messages reordered correctly and I’ve not had the problem since. Fingers crossed my luck continues.
Solution that worked for me:
We went into
Settings
General
Date and Time
and then turned SET AUTOMATICALLY to OFF and then waited a few moments and turned SET AUTOMATICALLY back to ON.
This seems to have re-synced the phone to the network's clock.
I think the iphone clock was out of sync between me and other users I was messaging with.
Hope this helps others.
So I was having this problem too, I told my friend about it and he told me to do a hard reset, I tried it and it worked and fixed the problem. (A hard reset is holding down power button and home button at the same time until the screen turns off for people who don’t know) hopefully this is helpful.
Load 11.2.6.
Texts have been appearing out of order since the last update. It’s happenibg on all three devices in my family.
We have 2 SE’s and one 6 all up to date.
If I text my wife, her reply plants Before the text I had sent.
This is happening repeatedly in all conversations and on all devices.
iMessage - messages arriving in wrong order
