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IMessages out of order?
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It’s 2018 and Apple can’t write code to order messages chronologically?
Happened to me this morning. Annoying. It's in the correct order on my phone, but not Mac.
Edit: Quitting the Messages app and re-opening it fixed it.
Edit: Quitting the Messages app and re-opening it fixed it.
I contacted Apple support and they stated that the engineers were aware of the issue and were working on a fix.
That's good news. Hopefully it'll be fixed on 11.3, they've already known about this for a few months.
I can't believe everyone is having this issue and Apple has done nothing to fix it. Apparently iOS 11.2.5 was supposed to fix iMessages out of order, but I'm still having the issue. I'm really hoping iOS 11.3 fixes the problem for good, but I'm pessimistic about it.
must be one heck of a bug they introduced that is taking this long to fix. iMessage been around since 2011 and this is first iOS version that I can recall with out of order messages. Hard to believe it isn't fixed yet.
Yep, this was happening pretty regularly for me until recently. Not sure why - haven't done any updates - but it has suddenly started to work correctly in the past week. Knock on wood.
Well, as the saying goes...you can hope in one hand and **** in the other. See which one fills up first.
Apple doesn't care about putting priority on fixing things that really matter...instead they're busy fixing an Indian language character that affects a speck of the total number of actual iPhone users.
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Well, as the saying goes...you can hope in one hand and **** in the other. See which one fills up first.
Apple doesn't care about putting priority on fixing things that really matter...instead they're busy fixing an Indian language character that affects a speck of the total number of actual iPhone users.
I wonder how many people are experiencing the out of order bug? That they'll quickly fix a bug that affects 5 people while letting another that affects God only knows how many for months and months.
I mean, if I knew I was going to be enduring a Windows experience on Apple I would have stuck with Microsoft.
It doesn't work that way in software development. Once you're aware of an issue you have to find out what is causing it, and a bug such as this would be very difficult to reproduce since it isn't something easily replicated, it just seems to happen at random.
You first have to find a way to consistently reproduce the result, then you have to track down what is causing it, and only then can you find a fix. You also then have to hope that fix works for everything, not just the hardware configurations you have to test.
Just because it isn't fixed yet doesn't mean they're not working on it. They thought they had the fix in the last update but now it's shown it only fixed it for some people.
This is exactly what the whole thread is talking about.Anyone else having issues where they send an iMessage and the reply is placed above the message you sent? I attached a pic showing the order of the messages re: 1, 2 and 3 being the reply.
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I can't get my messages to send or receive on anything but my iPhone and I just tried singing out of I message and I can't sign back on, on my mac
Hmmm.... my wife upgraded to 11.2.6, and it seems OK between she and I when I have not upgraded yet.
Going to upgrade now and re-test. But between two phones on 11.2.5 (work and personal) it's still broken.
I'll update this when I've tested....
OK... so - I upgraded both my SE (work phone) and 7 (personal) to 11.2.6. Then, close all apps and hard reset for both phones, then start messages app and test.
Previously I had tested this, and was able to replicate the problem every time.
But now.... Everything seems to work perfectly.
My verdict - problem solved in 11.2.6!
Although I see one member has already said it's not... but maybe because of different hardware, or the user at the other end of the messages wasn't upgraded? Having said that - it appeared to work for me between my wife's 6s and my 7 when she'd upgraded and I had not.
Anyone else able to test and update?
Going to upgrade now and re-test. But between two phones on 11.2.5 (work and personal) it's still broken.
I'll update this when I've tested....
OK... so - I upgraded both my SE (work phone) and 7 (personal) to 11.2.6. Then, close all apps and hard reset for both phones, then start messages app and test.
Previously I had tested this, and was able to replicate the problem every time.
But now.... Everything seems to work perfectly.
My verdict - problem solved in 11.2.6!
Although I see one member has already said it's not... but maybe because of different hardware, or the user at the other end of the messages wasn't upgraded? Having said that - it appeared to work for me between my wife's 6s and my 7 when she'd upgraded and I had not.
Anyone else able to test and update?
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could it be that the sender of the message is on an older version of iOS (which still has the bug), and its actually both parties (sender and recipient) that need to be on a bug free version of iOS for this problem to go away?
Well - that was my point in my previous post.... from what I saw, it looked like it was working OK between my 7 on 11.2.5 and my wife's 6s on 11.2.6 just after she upgraded. Then, I tested between my 7 and my work SE, both on 11.2.5, and that failed - I was able to reply quickly (to myself) and show the messages in the wrong order - after upgrading them both, I couldn't replicate the problem anymore, and so I declared my verdict as "problem solved"!