iMessage voice memos on iPhone show 0:00 and fail to play or deliver.

For about a year now my friend and I have had trouble with voice memos recorded in iMessage actually delivering. Prior to this our only issue was recording voice memos that exceeded the iMessage limit (around 26 minutes) and not being able to send them. Now it’s to the point where a voice memo is only 15+ minutes long and it will send but it will say 0:00 and won’t play. We’ve started saving those recordings to the actual voice memos app and sending them that way. It works but it’s frustrating. For reference I have an iPhone 15 and she has an iPhone 15 pro max and we’re both on iOS 26