IMessage/Text Messages Out Of Order

This is the weird timestamp example. Notice the time at the top of the phone versus the timestamp to my outgoing message. Also my friends reply was placed above my message. This is just crazy and driving me nuts. I'm hoping everyone on this thread is submitting a bug report to Apple

The problem gotten worse over the last few days. It used to be that only once every few days a conversation would have reordered messages. Restarting Messages app would not only sort the messages in correct order but also keep problem from reappearing for a few days for that conversation. Now the messages are reordered a lot more frequently, several times a day at least, and restarting Messages app does absolutely nothing.

I am wondering what do all people who get reordered messages have in common. Despite all the posts here and all the views, I am guessing this problem only affects a small fraction of iPhone owners. So, we are all on different networks, in different locations, timezones, etc. I noticed that all the reordered messages happen on conversations that are running long, have months worth of messages with pictures, and links, etc. Did anybody ever had messages reordered in a short conversation that's maybe just a few messages or days?

The message issue is an iMessage problem, not a text message issue, so any texts that you receive via your phone carrier by SMS will be fine, it's only the ones that come as iMessages from Apple's servers. By disabling iMessage you won't receive any messages that are sent by other Apple users via iMessage until you sign back into iMessage yourself. They will still be sent to your other devices that are connected to iMessage, i.e. iPad and iMac.

Remove the phone entirely from the conversation. The Messages app does this as well and my Macbook is sync'ed time wise to a proper source... so someone tell me where the issue is here given the phone isn't even part of things here.

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...

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.

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.

Apple - Support - System Status

It seem the problem isn cause by iMessage Service, but iOS/Message app itself.

i meet this problem both of my MacBook Air & iPhone 7, all of which is running the newest OS version...

it is so F***ING annoying.

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.

I want to add that nothing works!!!!!! And if it works...it works for about 2 weeks at most and then the messages are scrambled again!!!! This is seriously ridiculous!!!!!!!! APPLE FIX THIS ASAP!!!!! IT has been 3 months!!!!!

This worked for me on mine and my wife’s iPhone 7s. I tried turning off he set automatically in time date settings a few times first with no luck, but so far this seems to have done the trick... thank you

Please ! I hope this is resolved soon ... I started thinking I needed to take my phone in and get it replaced or something ...it is messed up with all my texts - the times they send are like 2 minutes later than the actual time and then people respond to me and my text stays at the bottom. Very annoying. Fingers crossed this will all be over soon :)