IMessage/Text Messages Out Of Order

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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.

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. 😕

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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.

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.

So, interestingly enough a similar issues has been happening since 2008. I saw it in a forum at http://iphone.appleinsider.com/articles/08/01/28/apple_details_potential_fix_for _mis_ordered_iphone_sms_messages

Maybe it’ll be a good while before it’s fixed. :(

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.

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!

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 🙂

My wife and I both have iPhone 6s with iOS 11.2.5 applied on both phones. The messages are still show up in wrong order in conversations between just the two of us.

Interesting that I see a message show up in the right place and split second later move up in thread to a wrong place. Some kind of post processing after message is received screws things up.

The only connection I’ve noticed so far is that the time zone settings are found to be set to Beijing. Even after the fix and the update it went t back to the incorrect text order.

Im hoping the techs at Apple are working on this. I haven’t seen any feedback from them yet. Disappointed. I have a work phone and I can’t afford a second phone.

I have this problem as well on my Mac.

Note, I am seeing this happen while sending messages to users that are in different time zones. As much as 16 hours apart if that makes a difference.

Messages 11.0

Mac OS X 10.13.2

I have this issues too. iPhone 6S, iOS 11.2.5.

I've done everything. Even reset all settings but it just comes back after a few days.

It's an issue with iMessage timestamps. At one point the time stamp for an outgoing message was in the future.

Can't believe this is still ongoing for some many with no fix from Apple.