Newly received iPhone messages show above sent messages

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!

It is so annoying when apple support tells you the problem must be unique to your phone when there are literally housings of “me too” replies. Apple is just negligent in responding to customer concerns. It is tragic that the iPhone is ubiquitous in the world because I would switch to Samsung in a heartbeat if I could just get find my friends on Android...

I just checked my time/date settings and found my time zone was on Barcelona (I'm in UK) and I didn't do this, intentionally at least, but my phone was displaying UK time. Hoping this was the problem but can't understand why it was set on Spanish time zone ??

This is a common issue and I believe will be addressed. Make sure your iOS is up-to-date. Also, try going to Settings/General/Date&Time. Turn off set automatically. Restart. Then set it back to “set automatically”. You may not have to restart but I usually do that when changing a setting just to be thorough and restarting usually fixes a lot of issues anyway.

The check on the Time and Date is correct on my phone and I still continue to get this issue. Can we please get an update soon!!!

I did this to fix my imessages and then after updating, it was broken again. Come on Apple.... Really?

The fix is temporary. After a couple of days, it reset back to being out of order for me.

Text message reply appears before mine fix

Settings

Select general settings

Select date and time

Turn off set automatically

Restart phone

Turn set automatically back on

I am having this issue too...nothing mentioned in this post/replies has worked for me. I have my messages showing up as "new" as well as replies above sent messages. Super frustrating!

I have this same issue, Any fixes?

See tip from Bernadette on page 6. It worked for me.

Yup all of that is correct on my phone settings and iOS version, but the problem still exists. Now what?

It won’t fix the messages already out of order. It should fix texts from now on.