Ever since updating to IOS 18, my messages are disappearing

Ever since I updated my Iphone 15 to IOS 18. I have had a problem with one of my contacts messages. I have all the texts up to the day I updated (September 21st) but between then and now every time one of us texts a text from a previous day gets disappeared. So for instance after the 21st the next text I have is from September 29th and is an address. But if I was to send a text now then that message would disappear. I am using the term disappear because if I go out of the conversation and use the messages search bar I can still find the messages from those 8 days but upon pressing on them it just shoots me to the last text on the 21st. This is only happening with this contact, and am wondering why. The only difference between them and my other contacts is that i have an email address in her contact card since she sometimes texts me from her mac. But not all the texts from the 21st till now have been through the mac. Also all the photos, links and videos sent in that time span are still able to be seen if i click on her icon in the conversation. Has anyone else experienced this, and if so were you able to fix this.

iPhone 15, iOS 18

Posted on Oct 2, 2024 11:24 AM

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Jan 27, 2025 5:06 AM in response to maximillian262

Two of my many contacts as far as I know are having this disappearing messages issue. The only people that I have noticed that have changed their picture that shows on their number. I have done updates, checked my iMessage synching and looked at settings since RCS is on here now. Both are iPhone users but they say “text message - SMS” at the top of one and “text message - SMS iMessage” at the top of the other. It consistently deletes the messages after a couple of days but just with these two contacts.

Jan 27, 2025 6:04 AM in response to maximillian262

I dont know if I should put my issues in this thread or not but Im gonna see anyways. So I dont have these issues but I wanna say I have found a bug where I noticed that for some reason when I go to manually delete texts from my phone theyre not being deleted on the icloud or server end. I know from doing research it takes up to 24hr-4 days to delete on the server end. I dont have the messages turned on in my icloud. My point is its causing my icloud to increase more than it should and I think its cuz the texts arent being deleted on the server end. I have iphone se 2022 and I have ios 18.2.1 and I noticed this to be a problem in maybe 18.1 I wanna say but maybe it started in ios 18.0. I have texts set in my settings to keep texts for 30 days. But like I said I manually delete them from my phone and from recently deleted folder. SO Im just wondering why the texts arent being deleted from the server. If anyone has this issue let me know thanks

Dec 11, 2024 9:28 AM in response to LTSTSUB

Has this worked long term? Or did the problem come back? Just wondering - since it seems to be a bug in the iOS 18 if it came back.

Dec 26, 2024 4:55 PM in response to maximillian262

Good

SR3995

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Feb 13, 2025 8:53 AM in response to majebackagain

Updating now with 18.3. Fingers crossed.

CaLDa

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Mar 15, 2025 4:06 AM in response to majebackagain

I’m having Mail issues that began after updating to 18.3.2!

I just hope 18.3.3 is going to happen soon!

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Ever since updating to IOS 18, my messages are disappearing