Iphone losing unsent messages

Update: As you have by now surmised, when that happens, it's irretrievably gone. When you start a New iMessage or New Message via , the unsent New iMessage or New Message is not stored but should persist until you either or Cancel as long as Messages remains loaded in memory. Although it shouldn't, it does so happen that you might experience that when the screen is locked and subsequently unlocked while Messages is open to the fore, the unsent New iMessage or New Message is effectively cancelled as if you tapped Cancel. A likely work-around is to make sure Messages is in the background while any screen locks may occur.

When, instead, you start a new message from within an existent conversation, the unsent message is stored within that conversation and will persist forever until you either or delete it, immune from the screen lock cancellation fault.

Any questions, look at this other discussion and read all replies.

I have same issue, but seems to be only with new text message screen. My problem is phone calls coming in, or I put my phone down, and I got tired of starting the same message 5 times. My solution was do draft the message in the "Notes App" which then allows me to transfer directly to the Text Message App. The original draft remains, but can be deleted.

Correction: While there is no actual "save as draft" function in Messages, it does save drafted text. Unsent composition within an existent conversation will persist forever even through restarts until you either send or delete it. Unsent composition within a New Message will persist until you either send or cancel it but only for as long as Messages remains loaded in memory.

Losing Unsent Text in Messages App

That suspended text should stay there forever even through restarts until you send it. To get to the bottom of this I'm curious to know if you've recently enabled Messages in iCloud and have any historically long conversations replete with photos and images?

Your suggestion is good, but doesn't help, when You start your message from the image app, to include a few images in Your message - then it is lost if You are interupted by a phone call or You need to search for a link or some other information to include. It is extremely annoying.