Newly received iPhone messages show above sent messages

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I started having the same issue for about a week or so. Some of the texts are in the right order, but more and more the responses are showing up above the message. It's very frustrating and caused me to miss responses because they are integrated in the sent messages.

I know that a ton of people, as well as myself, having both of these issues... hence why I found this page from google searching "my phone is updated, why are my own texts coming in as a new notification and other texts are not in correct order". I have tried all ways listed above and not one thing works. I feel like its a glitch on this new update and for some reason every update has a new glitch? Kind of like the [A] glitch on one of the updates in November? Will there be a new update?

Many of my friend's who have early versions of iPhones, 7 and below, are experiencing this issue. I have an iPhone X and I haven't had this happen to me yet. So I wonder if that plays a role in why messages are out of order.

Something that I found interesting is that my apple watch shows the iMessages in the correct order but my iPhone does not. I took the instructions of what worked from a previous post and it worked for me, which are:

1. Turn off set automatically under date/time

2. At this point I changed the time to one minute early

3. Turn on set automatically.

4. Restart iPhone

At this point, iMessages in the past were out of order, but all future ones were coming in correctly.

Hope this helps.

I just read a tip here but cannot find it again - but it seems to work; turn off iMessages and put phone in airplane mode; turn off phone; turn phone on; turn off airplane mode; send some texts in plain text; if texts are in order switch iMessages back on - hope it works for you, seems to have worked for me , Bennie

I also saw someone above mentioning to change your time before turning automatic date/time back on. I just tried it now and will see if that solves the issue.

I feel like this problem must be due to a synch problem in which my local iPhone Time is some number of seconds ahead of the date/time servers. That way when new replies come in (especially when sent right away) they get sorted above ones i’ve sent “from the future” due to my bad local time.

I didn’t start having issues until I had manually changed the year in my clock a week or two ago to test an app countdown timer. After that, the issue persisted even though i’ve been back on automatic.

As seen in attached, the minutes appear the same but if my seconds are ahead of hers it would explain why it’s below.

Hopefully dinking with airplane mode and automatic time settings sorts it out!

Thanks for the update. Since you are having multiple issues with the Messages app after the update, it seems specific to this app only. Since you are not able to remove and reinstall the Messages app alone, backup the iPhone to keep your data safe. Restore the iPhone to factory settings to see if the issue persists. It may be something on the device, but you can also restore your backup data afterward.

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Take care.

This issue is regularly happening to me. I have an iPhone SE, not sure what everyone else has. iOS is at 11.2.1, ie, up to date. I turned off and back on the Automatic time as was suggested and nothing changed.

I am having issues with iMessage - the blue texts. I don’t text many people that do not have iMessage so I don’t know if the issue exists with SMS as well but the blue iMessage texts are misplaced just about every other time I receive one

I’m having the same problem, my time and date are set automatically as well as the time zone. I have a 6s, my friend with a 6 plus is having the same issues, my husband with an SE also is having the issue. Apple it’s a problem! Please fix this!

It’s happening to me too. I have an SE and when I send a message the reply comes back above the one I send. It doesn’t happen all the time, but most of the time. And only since the last few days. Very weird. And annoying. And confusing.

I’ve been having the issue the entire time too. I have an iPhone 7 that was newly replaced after my phone died just after the warranty ran out. Thankfully a manager at the Apple Store replaced it for free. The out of order text messaging is the only issue I’ve had with this new 7. It was only happening when messaging with one person, but now I’ve noticed it with another person. I’ve checked all the settings as well and that didn’t help at all.