I have an iPhone 14 Pro and a new Macbook Pro using Sonoma 14.6.1. My iMessages are synced through iCloud on all my Apple devices. As of last week, group conversations on my MacBook are splitting into multiple threads. When I create a group text, the replies come back separately. This is not happening on my phone, just on my laptop.
MacBook Pro (M3 Max, 2023)
I have also noticed that my name appears in the group members list on replies -- another thing I never saw before the recent OS update.
This is what's been happening to me (also within the month of Dec. 2024) -- I have a "Fam" chat, all iphones, and for some reason my messages suddenly started making a new chat to my other family members. When I'm on my phone, I only see the one chat within Messages, but when text notifications come in it does show the two separate chats (one with the Fam name, one with no name just all the group members). These two separate groups also show up on my Mac. My sister is getting very frustrated with me but I have no way to make this stop happening lol, because all my messages are being sent from my phone where it looks like it's all the same chat!
I will try the re-naming the new branch on my computer to the same name as the regular Fam group like another user mentioned earlier this month, and hope that fixes things *fingers crossed*
I see there is no remedy so far. I’m on AT&T and all users are on an iPhone. And I’m the only one seeing the conversation being split up. I’ve tried syncing, rebooting and nothing seems to solve it. It seems to have happened more often since I got a new iPhone 16 pro max about a month ago.
Has anyone found a solution to this issue? I started experiencing text splitting problems in late August and spent hours on the phone with both Apple Support and Verizon, but each company blamed the other. The issue seemed to resolve itself after a few iOS updates in October, but it recently started happening again. It’s incredibly frustrating. Initially, I noticed the problem only when using iMessage on my Mac, but now it’s occurring when I send texts from my phone as well.
I finally fixed the tone problem, after a tiny symbol appeared on the right indicating it was set not to sound. I tapped that, and the symbol disappeared. Now the tone sounds. But the threads, with one name, keep splitting.
Hi, Verizon user here. Having the same problem…still…in April 2025. My biggest complaint is that I can no longer mute the chat! No matter what I do, notifications still come through. This all started for me as soon as I completed the last iOS update back in the fall. I have a family group chat with mainly iPhone users and one Android user. Everyone has different carriers (Verizon, T-Mobile and ATT). At any given moment, responses will come through on various threads all with the same group name. The Android user DOES receive messages from new threads that don’t exist, the same as the rest of us. Our group also receives notifications regularly that the name has been changed without any visible changes to the name occurring.
It’s not a carrier issue and it’s not an Android issue. I’ve tried turning RCS on and off with no success. It’s something that Apple has done in the recent update. Any chance Apple has admitted to the mistake and is offering real help to resolve?
In my group's text, this seemed to be resolved for a few months and is now happening again. There is NO commonality in carriers. My group thread has people from Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile, and at different times the problem has been reported by users on all three. Yes, there are both Android and IPhone users in the group. I don't know if it's related but it seemed to pop up again when the update to 18.5 started rolling out and some iPhone users had updated and others had not yet. Apple, get your act together!
I have 15 ProMax, and my iMessage with 3 other Apple phone users split last year into two different text chains. And at times a message would be sent in one and show up in the other like when iMessages sync between devices….but the two never recombined. Well, it happened again last nite, in a different group message, again with all Apple iPhone users. This is really annoying! Solve the problem please!
I also have this problem. It seems to be a
mixed android and iMessage group chat issue, perhaps apple support for RCS is the cause. There may be some edge cases in the Android messaging interface that are unresolved, resulting in odd bugs
Ditto! iPhone 14 pro Max and this started after I updated to Sonoma 14.6.1. Only on my Macbook, not my phone. Following ... hoping Apple will pipe in here.
Yes, highly coincidental, but perhaps I don't know many people on non-Apple devices. I use Xfinity Mobile, which is on the Verizon network. Thanks for your input.
I'm also experiencing the same issue. Started several weeks ago.
Mine also resolved. I have Verizon
Mine seem to be normal again, too. Fingers crossed.
This worked for me :)
@Curburt, Do you mean copying manually into one thread is what worked?
iMessage splitting group conversations into multiple threads
