Why are my text messages received in wrong order and broken apart?

[AC Question]

Texts received in wrong order and broken apart

If i get a text message from someone with an iphone who has sent over maybe 3-4 sentences, the texts that i receive are mixed up, and also broken into 5-6 individual texts instead of sending as one whole text.

 

[Rukbat]

Re: Texts received in wrong order and broken apart

That's an iMessage to SMS incompatibility. Apple is "working on it".

Make sure the person sending you the text marks at least one text to you as SMS, to be sure it's not being sent as some weird "iMessage via SMS" - which no phone could handle properly.

The being broken is due to the fact that an SMS (text) is limited to 160 characters and, if a longer one isn't sent with a "part 1 of X" format, your phone thinks it's separate texts. (Also an iMessage to SMS incompatibility - iMessage doesn't always get SMS right.)