IMessage/Text Messages Out Of Order

Ive had the same isssue over the past few days With my ipad and iPhone. A reboot of my ipad and iphone has resulted in the texts now appearing in the correct order.

No settings were changed before or after.

Can confirm the issue exists in the latest version of macOS as well.

My devices are:

iPhone 6s Plus iOS 11.2.1 (Confirmed issue)

Watch 1st Gen

Late 2011 MacBook Pro macOS 10.13.2 (Confirmed issue)

Early 2015 MacBook Air macOS 10.13.2

Rebooting the phone temporarily solves the issue.

Have done the 'Turn Off Set Automatically' on both my iPhone on iOS 11.2.1 and my Macbook Pro running macOS 10.13.2. Did NOT do this on my Macbook Air (macOS 10.13.2) to use it as a control for the test. Will update with results.

Can confirm that iMessages that were originally sent out of order on my Macbook Pro, were sorted correctly on my iPhone 6s, post 'Turn Off Set Automatically' procedure, when the message sync propagated them to the iPhone, however the messages also appeared in the correct order on my Macbook Air which was the control machine that I did NOT do the 'Turn Off Set Automatically' procedure on. 😕

This issue has been reported all over the web, twitter, reddit, etc.

It's pathetic that Apple released an update with such a glaring flaw.

It's doubly pathetic that Apple support has not bothered to respond on this well known issue.

Apple, do you care about your customers? Do you care about product quality? Seems like the answer is no.

This is a user to user forum. Apple has never, not will they ever respond to you in this medium. You can submit your thoughts at apple.com/feedback or contact Apple support directly if you want to be heard or speak with an Apple representative.

Just how wide spread is this? Although i came looking for this issue when i had it ive not noticed the Internet going in to meltdown over it. And just rebooting has clear the issue for me and its not come back.

Over the past couple of days I’ve asked all my IOS device owning friends about this and none of them have seen this issue. Obviously some of us have so its a real thing.

I can understand Apple not reaching out about this at the moment, as there doesn’t seem to be a definitive fix. What works for some doesn’t work for others. This will be hard to track down if Apple cant reproduce it.

Let’s hope it gets fixed soon. I agree about Apple losing its grip these days. Too many bugs In their software. This could be the year Apple bubble bursts. I for one won’t buy another iPhone again, even though I’m more than happy with my iPhone 8 Plus at the moment. If apple cant even get their own software working properly on their own hardware then its goodbye.

The interesting thing is that it doesn't appear to be everyone. My daughter and my Ex=wife both have the iPhone 7 as do I and they have never experienced the problem. I personally have only experienced the problem on my iPhone not on my Retina Mac which is running MacOS 10.13.2. I can't get High Sierra to load on my Mac Mini so I can't attest to that and I didn't upgrade my iPad Pro to 11.2.1 because of the problem on my iPhone.

I will say that Apple Engineering communicated to me that this is a known problem and what they had me do, which I documented above fixed it on my iPhone.

I was able to go through AppleCare since I am on the Apple upgrade plan. Based on the conversation I believe there are others that Engineering has as well, I just didn't need to go beyond the first one. If you have AppleCare {bus do it via the chat or call back and they will escalate it for a callback from engineering.

Having the same issue since 11.2.1 was installed.

- Send Message to Recipient

- Recipient replies - replied message displays before I sent the first message.

I tried the reboot of the phone, no joy. Has to be a timing bug in Messages.

Did you read what I posted that Apple Engineering had me do yesterday that fixed it for me?

I did the hard reset, the restore and new device and a DFU to no avail. The simple Date & Time thing fixed it for me.

I have been having the same issues!!! but for longer actually. It's only with one person, and when I send an imessage to them their reply will come in before whatever I sent. it's driving me crazy!! I've messaged apple and they aren't replying

I actually just went to settings<general<date&time and turned off the automatic for 15 seconds then turned it back on and then powered off my iPhone and it’s fixed. Hopefully it stays this way

@kodabear9009, I just discovered something interesting that might help you. I was going down the route of the date and time fix. I was only having this issue with my wife’s phone. We just had her battery replaced due to the ongoing battery drama. I checked her date and time Settings and discovered her phone was set to CST while mine is set to EST (yes, we live in the same time zone :-) This shouldn’t make a difference but if there is a timing issue even off by a second or 2 it could make a difference. After fixing her time zone and doing the date/time fix mentioned in a previous post, problem is resolved. Growing weary of all these bugs Apple. I don’t want to switch phones but the newly introduced bugs are getting old. Is Apple doing any regression testing on this stuff?

I have the same issue, however it happens on both my iPhone 6S and my MacBook air iMessage app. I haven't found a solution unfortunately =\ if someone finds one please let me know it is quite frustrating