IMessage/Text Messages Out Of Order

I am having the same issue. I have only noticed it with iMessages that are within a minute of each other.

Hard boot didn't work.

I did a full reset to factory and it was OK for a couple days, but has started back up again.

Very annoying.

I think I figured it out. Go to iCloud.com on your Mac and log in. Then go to settings. Click on the right side of the screen that says time region. Although it probably says your correct time region anyways, when you click on the actual thing the map will be hovering over the California instead. Click your correct time region on the map, save then close. Restart your iPhone + Mac if you have one. I fixed mine that way at least.

I also removed my old phone from those settings as well. So if you still have your old iPhone active under it you may want to take it off.

Good luck!

Actually I djust d that and it worked but after rebooting or a day, it quit. I had the update 11.12.2 flash on my screen a few days ago so I bit the bullet and did it. It SEEMS to be working ok now. But the other way did not permanently fix it

Am having the same issue. I noticed it last week on a couple of iMessage threads and rebooted my phone and it straightened it out, but then last night I noticed it happening again. I tried rebooting my phone twice, the date and time suggestion, turning iMessages on and off, but still no joy. I am currently running 11.2 on an iPhone 6. The strange thing is my iPad (also running 11.2) and my iMac (running Mavericks) are both fine and the messages are in the correct order. Surely the messages are kept on the cloud, so shouldn't all devices sync?

Obviously I've missed the update for 11.2.2 and I see it's now at 11.2.5. Will this update solve the issue?

Thanks

Well, hopefully, this afternoon they'll know more. I just chatted with customer service and I'm supposed to get a call back today to talk with a higher level phone tech about what's happening. They are aware of the problem, is what the service rep. said but they want to talk about what is happening.

As far as I can tell, if the iMessage conversation happens in intervals of less than, say, 1 minute then the messages are out of order. If the reply is over a minute later then it's fine. Also, my iPod doesn't have the same problem, just my phone.

Funny thing is my wife converses on her iPad in the mornings and she didn't have the problem until I corrected the problem on my phone, the first time, then she had the problem and performed the "turning the automatic time zone off and rebooting" fix and hasn't had the problem again since.

This is just so strange!

Mine are out of order again.

Has anyone noticed this. I was taking screen shots, to send to Apple when I talk to them this afternoon, and I got one where they are out of order. But then, when I was showing a guy at work, they popped into order. I got a shot with them out of order and one with them in order so, hopefully, this will help when they look into this.

I timed responses and it appears that, if the person waits to respond 20 to 30 seconds, or longer, the message will be in order. If they respond before 20 seconds elapses the message will appear out of order.

Not only has the update not fixed the text issue, but I discovered this morning that since updating to 11.2.5, the Bluetooth text message reader function in my car is no longer supported! I despair of Apple. 😖

My husband’s phone which is still using 11.2 still works fine with the texts in the car, so the issue must be with the update (incidentally his phone doesn’t appear to have the messages out of order issue either). I wish I hadn’t bothered with the update, it’s made things worse

Thank you, that works! I noticed when I turned off the Set Automatically button that the time zone was Beijing. Got a chuckle out of that since I'm in New Jersey. Once I turned it back on, it set the correct location. Updates! 😉

Apple update 11.2.5 has not fixed the issue of my texts appearing out of order. In fact today I saw one text very breifly then it disappeared. Who knows where it went. I confirmed with the sender and she said it was sent. We were having long conversation so maybe it’s somewhere in this long list of texts. Normally, it’s just moved one or two texts above for me. This issue is a big pain in the butt. Apple please fix it. This latest update did not fix the issue.

This is really getting to be a pain, especially since it was called out in the 11.2.5 update notes that it was being fixed. Any type of iMessage/phone reset is just a temporary solution and the problem just keeps coming back. Given the many messages on this board about this topic, this one alone has over 60k views, I really hope Apple are scrambling on this and another update will be out soon.

Yes, fingers crossed

I guess all we can do is hang in there.

...wait, what order are those last two statements in 🙂

Last update was supposed to fix this.. mine was good til now, doing it again this morning. Partner’s never stopped even after update- both 6s+.

Both due for new phones and very seriously considering less expensive competitors that friends have gone with and been bery happwith.

A couple days after applying the 11.2.5 patch, it started happening again. Changing to a different time zone, then opening closing messages, then putting the time zone back to auto does fix the issue for me. However, it only lasts a couple days and I have to do it again.

I have and iPhone X - I also have tried the following - resetting phone - resetting iMessages by turning off and deleting network setting as requested by apple support - and this has done nothing - apple really need to get there act together, its getting super annoying when you get a new message and its down the bttm of the list. COME ON APPLE

I know this will probably be reported or removed, but I think it needs to be said. I truly envy those of you that this is your life's biggest inconvenience, that nothing bothers you more than this. I wish I had that luxury of not having any other worry or care in the world...