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.
Just back to report that although the most recent upgrade seems to have solved this problem on my iPhone, the most recent OS upgrade (10.13.3), which was explicitly intended to fix the threading problem in Messages, has made no difference at all to the problem on my Macbook. In fact if anything, it's worse now, in that my own messages not only aren't correctly threaded into the conversation (my messages all show up below all the others), but they are also now all in reverse time order.
Despite being on the latest MacOS version, the problem has re-appeared and is now worse than it was before. I was having a conversation and all the messages were all in the correct order. Suddenly all the messages I had received disappeared. Scrolling up I can see the last 30 messages I sent with the 30 I received above them.
As Apple are showing no sign of fixing this issue, I am now implementing my own solution. I will stop using iMessage.
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I have had this issue since 2017, and after a brief period of it not happening, the issue has returned. iMessages appearing and receiving in the wrong order/not getting notifications from messages as they appear above my own messages/wrong time stamp on messages. I have spoken to Apple 4 separate times about it, to be told to try the usual actions to fix it - none of which have worked. I have a phone call arranged with a senior advisor so they can pass on the info to the engineers who are 'currently working to resolve the issue'. Seriously unimpressed - I am paying a lot of money to have this phone and it is not working as it should be.
same problem after updated to iOS11.2. Iphone 6S, with multiple contacts. Neither setting Date & Time to automatic nor hard-resetting phone helps.
I am also experiencing this issue. Multiple people, latest software version 11.2.1. Has been happening for a couple of days. I have an iPhone 6s.
Same here. Started happening ever since I updated to version 11.2.1. When people reply back to iMessages quickly their response shows before my message in the text thread.
Just have to wait for a fix from Apple, until then, the annoyance will continue.
There is nothing fixed in 11.2.2, also checked thelist of fixes and there is nothing like this mentioned. Just reproduced it. with my phone, iPhone 6 ATT.
I updated to 11.2.2 the other day. So far it seems to have corrected the out of order message issue. Keeping my fingers crossed that it is permanent.
Absolutely not, I am already on 11.2.2 and still seeing this. I can reproduce this 100% of the time when rapid firing messages.
Same on 6S, and allegedly 11.2.5 was supposed to fix this specific issue.
11.2.6
As I have said earlier in this thread it affects iMessage, Snapchat and Messenger on my phone, so has to be Ios related
This started happening to me yesterday. Multiple users, auto date/time set, and no red exclamation mark. All of my messages get delivered, they just appear in the wrong order. I notice this hasn't happened with 'texts' so far.
I am seeing the same issue as well. Just started happening a few days ago. I wonder if it is caused by the latest iOS update, which I (drumroll) just installed a few days ago.
So I am in the same boat as Streespy; Latest OS, same date settings, happens in multiple conversations, no exclamations.
iMessage - messages arriving in wrong order
