iMessage - messages arriving in wrong order

Same here, everything up to date, delivered correctly, but if answer comes in quick, it get posted in the conversation before the actual question.... VERY annoying and only started to happen recently....

Same here Streetspy, exact same problem with quick responses. Both MacBook and iPhone are on the latest software releases. Both devices are set with the date/time to automatically update.

Just started happening within the past week. Very frustrating.

I'm having the same issue with imessages when we are replying to each other in real time. My message is shown then the sender's reply is showing before my message. This is very frustrating as sometimes, I think the person hasn't responded yet. I hope this bug is fixed SOON!

I also have this problem. My time is set to auto, no exclamation marks and one one conversation. It also happens to my husband and my mom. I think you need to look into this. Answers get missed when they come up before the question!

Experiencing the same since a couple days ago. Latest update installed last weekend; date and time set to Auto; no red exclamation marks.

Tried the solution of turning off Imessage, restarting and then turning Imessage back on... didn't help with the order of past messages nor has it helped with new messages that are responded to quickly.

Has anyone reported this or worked with Apple support? I did yesterday and they claim they haven’t had anyone report this. If everyone on this thread calls and reports this then maybe they will look into it. The one fix I tried worked in the moment but now the problem is back. I have an open case with support that has been escalated to the Engineers.

It’s not clear you understood the question. You said “I see that your iMessage contacts appear out of order.” But that’s not the issue. The problem is that messages are arriving out of order.

For example, I ask “What time is it?” You reply “7 o’clock” but the display in iMessage is:

7 o’clock

What time is it?

We see the ... display indicating a reply is being typed, but the reply appears above the question asked.

It is even hard to understand how there is a bug here honestly, there should be no sorting or rearranging anything of any sort here. You text something, it gets added to the end, something is received it gets added to the end, regardless if someone sent a message 2 days ago and you only received it today, just add the darn thing to the end Really how hard can this be?

I keep getting answers to my questions that show before I even asked the question, even if the date and time on my phone were set to October of 1950 this should make no difference at all, whenever you receive something add it to the end of the conversation, that is it. If anyone at Apple think this is working as designed I don't even know what to say.

This is not just cosmetics, you ask a question and keep waiting for an answer for hours because there is nothing after what you asked and then you realized the person already responded hours ago but it shows up somewhere above the question. I hope they get this fixed sometime this year, after they introduce some more cute Emojis.

I appreciate you sharing the tip with everyone but this is not a fix, you are simply band-aiding the symptom and not fixing the issue. The fact that updating date and time "fixes" the problem is just a confirmation of the moronic programming involved here. Nothing should be sorting these messages, to me it is inconceivable that anyone would even attempt to sort anything, like pick a reply and place it before the question because the timestamp says so. All that needs to be done is to add whatever is sent or received to the end of the conversation, this cannot possibly be that hard to implement.

I too am receiving my texts out of order. It can really make some conversations confusing as I don’t know which text theybare responding to. This all started after the last update to 11.2.1. I have an iPhone 6s, my time settijng is set to automatic. Can you guys fix this please before relationships business deals are messed up, or an international incident occurs due to untimely out of sync texts. I am willing to help test fixes if you need a guinea pig.

Same issue here with newest update. Tried all fixes posted and none resolve my issue, the texts are still out of order in 3 separate conversations (the fixes did not correct the order) and I assume more will continue. Frustrating!!!

This is an interesting observation that indicates that this issue is most likely a coding error. Is Apple listening? It would be nice to know that someone is at least looking into this issue. I’ve been an Apple consumer for several decades now. I love their products and I have to say I’m disappointed in this kind of error in the iPhone. This is the kind of crazy programming issues I saw ion OS8 and OS9 on the Mac side.

Same problem, iPhone 7, AT&T iOs 11.2.1

I've seen other forums that some Andoid users were having similar issues a few months ago as well so I thought maybe it was a carrier issue but reading these posts it doesn't seem to be the case. It's frustrating for sure.

So far it fixed it for me, but a lot of people have commented that it didn’t do anything for them. Maybe there is something (sequence of events) that has to occur to make the error start? I’m hoping they solve this soon!

No, Apple won't listen until the thread numbers start to get high indicating a problem.

Apple isn't the same company as when Job's was around. It'll be a name that will last a very long time, but slowly the culture is shifting.

This can be seen with product quality. Apple nickle and dime you while delivering subpar products.

There's no more ❤ at Apple. Employees no longer believe. ☹