iMessage - messages arriving in wrong order

I‘m having the same problem. IOS 11.2.2. However this started to happen just recently after I got me a new IPhone. Before, when I was only using IPad I never noticed this problem. This could be just a coincidence though.

I mostly use my IPad for messaging. It‘s an IPad Air 2. So far, the messages are only messed up on the device I‘m typing them, they are in the right order on my IPhone. Really weird. My conversation partner on an IPad Air 1 is having the same issue, but also just recently.

Hopefully this will be fixed soon.

Man I dunno what the **** is going on with Apple lately but it seems like iOS-11 has had more issues than all the other iOS-1 to 10 have combined! How did all these glitches and bugs slip thru the cracks with all the Developer testing going on with the betas before the GM release?? And y’all say JailBreaking is a problem?? This is just getting ridiculous now... Whoever programmed and wrote code for iOS-11 should really be fired, IMO...

Same on all counts. Just updated to iOS 11.2.5 today that is when it started. Among other things in messaging like group messaging omitting people visually but they are getting the texts. And texts being received from the incorrect contact. I set a text to my sister and she said it was labeled as coming from her house cleaner person. 😕

I just tried some rapid fire back & forth between my phone (6s+ w/ "Hey Siri") & my wife's phone (an older, simpler 6+ w/o "Hey Siri") and her phone DOES NOT seem to have the sequencing issue. Maybe it's a device problem & not an iOS problem?

I have this problem on both my iPhone SE and iPad Air2. The problem appears to be that the messaging app is reading the wrong time. I sent a message on my phone which appeared as “sent 10:47” yet my phone’s time read 10:46.

Same thing here on my iPhone 6s. Latest iOS release; really annoying issue, the conversation is broken down. I suspect that is a mix of problems my iOS release/the other iOS release and/or iMessage server date/time.

I hope Apple is aware and they're going to fix that soon.

not only did the new release not fix the issue - it created a new issue. clicking on a link that someone sends you in an imessage conversation no longer opens website. it just opens a new tab in chrome with an empty address bar. this is entirely new issue as of a few days ago. the worst - assuming others having same issue? only workaround is to right click copy and paste the thumbnail into new tab.

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.

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.

I’ve had this problem since before christmas. Today I also realised it affects snapchat and messanger on Facebook. When I send something in a chat on those two when friends are in the chat it says «read 15 secs ago» even though I just sent it. Also when people reply to me it says sent 15 secs ago even though we chat in real time and they maybe just says yes to a thing I asked 4 secs ago

Me and several of my friends are getting the same issues, this must be a bug and needs APPLE's attention. Updates have not fixed this. I started getting such error for few months, so it must be IOS 11 related. IOS is update and device is IP7.

I have the same problems!

11.2.2 I had this problem where my conversations with imessage would end up on the wrong order.

11.2.5 Upgraded and it all went away. *awsome*

11.2.6 And not it's back again! Serious! Fix this problem already!!!

I have this issue on my Mac more than my iPhone, but I have seen this happen on my phone as well.

Obviously there is no settings fix or any issue like that so I am curious if this is an iMessage server issue rather than a iOS issue?

Well done!

How are messages arriving out of order in different messaging apps, that are a 3rd party to Apple, a problem of iOS rather than a problem with the app you are using itself or possibly your device itself? Have you tried to do a restore?

I have also tried everything to fix this. Anyone have an actual solution? We’ve had an update since the first one that messed iMessages up, and the problem is still there. This is clearly an IOS apple issue.