IMessage/Text Messages Out Of Order

I think the only times it's out of order is when you are sending/receiving tests super quickly back and forth. That means the other person needs to be replying almost instantly for it to happen. Right?

It happens when the conversation is within the same minute, which is MOST of my conversations. Super annoying because I look at the conversation and it looks like my message was the last message. Then, a minute later I'll get "??" from the person I'm in conversation with and notice that they have responded but it's ABOVE my message instead of below.

Sorry, I disagree, it happens if you reply within same minute, or ten minutes, or ten hours! But I agree, it is sooo annoying. And all my Apple friends agree, it’s enough to make us switch to a new Cell! Steve Jobs would never allow this!

The issue is with messages in the same minute. iMessage does not seem to be using seconds for ordering messages, so they appear randomly. So much so that I miss even replies, ie if ios thinks that the incoming imessage is earlier than the last imessage I sent out. So I end up missing iMessages altogether.

I do nit think they are out of order if sent in different minutes or hours.

Thanks for summarising all of the potential tweaks in one useful post/web page.

However, I have tried them all and they don’t work for me, at least not permanently. They would work (for me) for a day or two before the issue would reappear.

This is not just on iPhone, it's also happening with the Messages app on my imac. I use that while I work, and now whenever I get messages on my phone it doesn't sync with the computer until like an hour later (they all just suddenly pop up at once) and the responses are out of order too so it's across devices.

ANd i want to here back from those that used to have this issues after they got to 11.4 and hear if it's fixed

For now, I found a simplier way and a reboot fixes the problem for a day or so. So keep rebooting to fix it.

There has been no permanent fix that I have found. New updates, trying all the "turning things on and off" and "rebooting". Nothing works for more than a day or so and then messages are out of sync again. This is my business phone. I can't afford to miss messages. If Apple doesn't fix this soon, I will seriously be looking at another brand when I replace my phone.

I am on the latest MacOS and have had this issue on my MacBook Pro since December. I reported it to Apple and they said it was a known issue and a fix was being worked on. 8 months later and I am still waiting. I now try to use other messaging tools for most of my contacts as Apple seem to have no interest in resolving it.

Same thing happening to myself and my husband. It only started when I updated carrier settings a couple of days ago. I think that may be the problem.

This doesn't fix it.

I am actually right now in the process of getting this escalated to the Phone Engineering team.

Apple has now released a fix for this!

And 11.3 doesn't fix the issue it seems? You guys gotta do the apple feedback link. That's the ONLY way it'll get fixed.

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