Maybe I am late to the party, but is anything else having issues with iMessage? I get a bug when I am in a thread and leave imessage and then get a text from that person in the thread, I go back and open imessage and the thread is open. No new message at all in the thread and I have to back out to all messages and go back to see the message. Very annoying, havent had this issue until beta 2 of 17.2.
Also over all, I feel like 17.2 is way more sluggish. Typing can run behind what I hit on the screen, I click something and it takes a second for the screent respond. I have not seen any of this since the first betas of ios 16. Apple has really messed something up with this beta 2.