This started a few days ago. I've been getting texts from friends with iPhones in the wrong order, and seemingly they are getting mine late. So I texted a friend whose grandmother was in the hospital yesterday, and her conversation with me looked like this. These texts from her arrived around a minute apart each. I think the intended order of them is fairly obvious. It's worth noting that every time I send her a text, the read receipt line under the text shows a little clock for a few seconds or more, which I think means it hasn't been recieved by her phone yet. Also worth noting that I had a conversation using the same stock messaging app with my mom yesterday who has an android and I don't think we had any such issue, but that may have actually been RCS.
Anyway, here's the example. It's not the only example I've had with her or with another iPhone-using friend in the past couple days.
Me: Hey, how's your day? Any updates about your grandma?
Her (a few hours later): I feel relieved
Me: does that mean you got good news?
Her: how was your day?
Her: yeah
Me: my day was good, (proceeds to describe what I did that day)
Her: my family feels relieved too
Me: what was the good news? Your grandma is okay?
Her: Hey $bionicjoey, I didn't get much sleep last night but I just heard that the doctors say my grandma is out of danger.
Edit: I texted her last night saying something weird was going on after that exchange, and then this morning at about 7:30 AM I texted her saying "let me know as soon as you get this". She just texted me at 2:30pm saying "I just am just now seeing your texts"
I have the same problem sometimes talking to anyone in my family and we all use Android. It's likely just the network itself having issues.
I scrolled back in our conversation and found at least one instance of a text that seemed to be replying to something I'd said weirdly earlier, and that was on Thursday of last week. So it's probably been going on at least that long.
Have you tried resetting your network settings?
Which network settings? Like my SIM card?
No, this should explain how better.
https://www.wikihow.com/Reset-Network-Settings-on-Android
What exactly will this do? Is it going to blow away anything important? The wikihow article doesn't mention what gets reset.
It resets network data to default, worst case it also deletes saved Wi-Fi passwords, that’s pretty much the only issue for me. But when things stop working with your network related device, this tends to fixes everything and it’s a simple place to start in my opinion.
I'll give it a shot.
Hopefully this does the trick. 🤞