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Title: Curious iPhone Bug Causing Non-iMessage Texts to Display Extra + Character, Breaking Conversations Post by: HCK on May 20, 2023, 04:05:05 pm Curious iPhone Bug Causing Non-iMessage Texts to Display Extra + Character, Breaking Conversations
An unusual bug is affecting text messages between some iPhone (https://www.macrumors.com/guide/iphone/) and Android users in the United States, with the ‌iPhone‌ seemingly adding an extra "+" character to the beginning of phone numbers belonging to Android and Google Voice users. (https://images.macrumors.com/article-new/2023/05/text-message-bug-iphone.jpg)<div class="center-wrap">Image via Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/13l669y/can_someone_tell_me_why_the_phone_number_is/)</div> This character causes the ‌iPhone‌ to think the text is coming from an international number, which results in issues (https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/13l669y/can_someone_tell_me_why_the_phone_number_is/) with text messages. A number that is normally 858-867-5309, for example, is being displayed on the ‌iPhone‌ as +85 88675309. There have been numerous complaints about the issue as of about an hour ago, with several threads (https://www.reddit.com/r/iphone/comments/13l6l8d/major_bug_texts_are_coming_in_where_my_phone_is/) on Reddit from confused users who have suddenly broken chat threads. It is not known what is causing the bug, but many of the reports seem to be from AT&T users. Resetting network settings may fix the issue, and there are currently mixed reports on whether the bug has been addressed server side. Adding a +1 to the number may also fix the problem for those who are continuing to see formatting problems. This article, "Curious iPhone Bug Causing Non-iMessage Texts to Display Extra + Character, Breaking Conversations (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/18/iphone-text-bug-non-imessage/)" first appeared on MacRumors.com (https://www.macrumors.com) Discuss this article (https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/curious-iphone-bug-causing-non-imessage-texts-to-display-extra-character-breaking-conversations.2389911/) in our forums Source: Curious iPhone Bug Causing Non-iMessage Texts to Display Extra + Character, Breaking Conversations (https://www.macrumors.com/2023/05/18/iphone-text-bug-non-imessage/) |