This was raised in another thread and this happens irrespective of the number of devices and whether or not they are linked / synced.
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IMessages out of order?
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This was raised in another thread and this happens irrespective of the number of devices and whether or not they are linked / synced.
Recently, Messages in iOS 11 started doing something weird: When I send a message, the reply I get appears ABOVE my message (instead of below it, like it always has). I cannot find a setting to adjust this, and I'd hate to delete threads. This is doing it for all contacts.
Example:
(Oh) <-- Reply
Example:
(Oh) <-- Reply
Initial message --> (Schools are closed today.)
Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix this?
Apple have obviously employed a village idiot to work on iMessage. This is just the lastest example of their output, messages in the cloud being their opening salvo.
Give their recently quality, they must have employed a lot of village idiots, one for iMessage, one for High Sierra, one for MacBook builds, one for iOS 11, etc, etc.
i had this problem before. I was on the latest version at the time but i only resolved it after noticing i was running low on space ( less than 100mb free) so i deleted some old texts and it started working again
I’m only using half the space in my 128GB 6S+ and have this problem so it’s nothing to do with device storage.
My gf only has an iPhone and it happens to her as well. I have an iPhone on the latest OS and a MBP but it’s still on Sierra still.
A number of people have said that 11.2.5 has fixed this, but I see a couple of people are still having the issue.
I've not tried to replicate it since installing 11.2.5, but I haven't noticed the problem since then. I wonder if the user at the other end of the conversation also needs to have updated their OS?
Hmmm.... just tested between iPhone 7 and iPhone SE both on 11.2.5, and the problem still exists for me.
I've not tried to replicate it since installing 11.2.5, but I haven't noticed the problem since then. I wonder if the user at the other end of the conversation also needs to have updated their OS?
Hmmm.... just tested between iPhone 7 and iPhone SE both on 11.2.5, and the problem still exists for me.
Yeah - I posted that, then tested, and edited my post... I have found the same thing. i.e. problem still exists even with both phones on 11.2.5.
Ah well... I guess we'll have to wait until 11.2.6? Or maybe 11.3?
Reset iMessage on both my iPad Pro and iPhone X after updating to 11.2.5 hoping it would have resolved the out of order issue. It is still happening. This is really disappointing. When we pay some much money for our devices, we expect a few bugs, and major ones to be fixed quite fast. I know message in the cloud is in testing, but that’s no excuse for breaking something that was working fine. I want to have to continue my best experience on iMessage, not have a better one on Facebook messenger or Whatsapp where messages appear in correct order, this is getting frustrating.
Still happening on my end after updates, everything on my side was updated as well as those I text, who updated as well.
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Still happening for me on 11.2.5 also. Funny how iOS quality has gone down since they opened up the beta program, seems like with all the additional testers quality has actually gotten worse.