IMessage/Text Messages Out Of Order

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

The problem will come back. There have been so many people doing so many different things to get it to work, and it might work for a little while, but eventually it messes up again. They need to fix it. With iMessage store, this has become a platform, and for it to be glitchy is disappointing.

The 10.13.3 update does nothing. Have it installed since 1/23 - been having the problem regardless of the patch.

This is clearly a far larger issue here because phones and the app on Mac have the exact same issue. Its fun to see a response come in messages BEFORE the one I just sent asking something.

Gotta love it when you see this type of high quality crap from Apple

Me: When did you say you want to meet?
Friend: 8:00pm, you?

Friend: Great see you at 8:15!

Me: I'm running a bit late, how's 8:15?

I was thinking that it had to do with the towers being out of sync but I just had it happen again and I know the person I texted was in a conference room down the hall in the same building so that's not it either.

Me too. This is extremely annoying. Apple’s programming was great back in the iPhone 4 and iPhone 5s days, but recently it’s been nothing but glitches. Even autocorrect used to be better. Now Apple is more concerned about making me sign up for ApplePay and having my credit card information exposed by being stored one more place than it is with making its phones function well. Ever since the last update, my phone dies quickly, so something [useless] in the new programming is draining the battery. I will be switching to another type of smartphone shortly...

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.

None of these "fixes" people are mentioning do anything but reorder already existing texts into proper chronological order. This can only be fixed properly with software update...simply messing with the time settings, rebooting or resetting some settings can compensate for a bug in the code

This fixes your problem on iOS

1) go to General -> Date & Time -> and disable "Set Automatically"

2) Force quit Messages app (double tap the home button and swipe the Messages app upwards)

3) Launch Messages again. Your messages should now be in order

4) Change Date & Time back to "Set Automatically"

This occurs generally when you change time zones (i.e. you've been traveling a bit... lucky you!)

You're welcome! 🙏-1F3FD;

Just to put a +1 in here. Having the same issues. have been having them for a while now. None of the suggested methods seems to fix it.

I can't even get the messages to re-order with the deactivation of auto-timezone. Always out of order for me here.

I can't say 100% this worked but I only had this issue with one person. I did all of the suggested things within this thread and still nothing. Then I started to wonder, why is it only with one person. I realized that I have "Send Receipt" on for that person. I took it off and it hasn't happened yet. My old messages are still out of order but nothing has happened with new messages. I'm not going to hold my breath that it works or will continue to work but at this moment it does seem to be the solution for me at this moment. Now I only did this "fix" about 30 minutes ago but I've texted my friend since and they have not gone out of order. Beforehand I could be waiting for their response and I would see their response move up and show above my original text. So far there's been none of that today, so I'm hoping this fixes it and that the fix isn't temporarily.

I already have read receipt off and so do most of the people I text and we have the problem. The only fix is for Apple to fix it as they broke it with one of their updates. Seems to me like their last update to try to fix it helped a little but it’s still broke. Meaning, since the update I now notice that if the text is longer than a minute old and their is then a response it show properly. Any text that is answered within the same minute the order gets messed up. So many texts are answered right away so their fix is not really working.

A version of this worked on my MacBook Pro... but slightly different problem. I had lost an entire thread that was still in tact on both my iPad and iPhone. I tried above fix, it's now back. Even quirkier, while the conversation was "lost" messages sent to another individual would show up in another thread - they were in an older group message together. I think it may have been triggered by my attempt to record a flight from PDT to EDT and messed with time zone settings. Won't do that again. This is messed up.

Also noted the out of order problem on iPad and iPhone. Wish me luck.

I fixed this as follows:

- Open Privacy > Location Services

- Scroll all the way down to Advanced > Setting Time Zone, and turn On

- Go to Settings > Date & Time and select Set Automatically

Do this across all devices running iOS.

Shortly after, Messages will appear in order they are recieved. Past ones didn’t reorder. Just new ones.

I have this same issue, and none of the proposed fixes solve it.

I have tried the reboot, still does not work right.

I have tried the disable then re enable time automatically set feature

I have tried both the time automatically set followed by a hard reboot

Still no solution for this.

Because it's not, I work in telecoms and IT and I'll tell you it's not, you're probably better listening to the guy who also advised he worked for a carrier (Verizon)... If I text someone and it shows on my phone as delivered, then they send me one back and it goes above the one I sent them as a reply to my delivered message, then that is a bug in the software, just so you know