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Really Strange Messages bug (iPadOS only it seems) (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So I have a weird one for you guys, and I’d like to see if anyone has ever come up across this one.

This is a Messages bug, and as far as I can tell it’s only on iPad since I’ve never seen this on my phone that has the same chats in it.

Basically it goes like this: I have a group chat with a few friends, and on iPad every so often when I open Messages and it’s on that chat (since that was the last place I left off) it’ll show me not the current state of the chat, but three messages (and only those three messages) from somewhere back in 2022.

I can only scroll up and down as far as those three messages will allow. It’s as if those are the only messages available to me.

However, if I tap the group chat again in the list, it goes back to normal. Loads everything and is fine.

I’ve never seen this happen on my phone, just my iPad. I was hoping the new update would fix it, but alas.

Has anyone ever run into this? I’m about to just tell them we need a new group chat.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Since a recent release of iMessage, you can scroll back to a specific message and long-press to pop up a context menu. You can choose to “reply to” that specific message and will be in a mode where you only see that direct chain, not all messages. Click to leave that mode and you can see your new message, with a short sunken copy of what you’re directly replying to. It helps give useful context when your message thread is not sequential

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh I get what you’re saying now.

But, unfortunately, no. I don’t believe that’s the case here. I can interact with the group chat once I get it back into the “normal” view. It just randomly shows me these three comments — and also a failed FaceTime call — from 2022 when I launch Messages. Then I tap on the chat in the list and it shows me the whole discussion from the latest comments.

Weirdest bug.