Background: I am in a group chat with my spouse and some members of their family. My spouse has their own group chat with the same family members, which I am not part of. However, intermittently, I will receive random messages that are sent to that other group chat.
Most recently this took the form of a new thread appearing in my Messages app like this (did my best to redact/annotate so people can understand what I’m seeing):
Despite the June/July dates of the “changes” shown as being made to this chat, this thread was not in my Messages list before Tuesday this week when it appeared. The action of my spouse renaming the group to a different chat does not correspond to anything he actually did. My sister-in-law also did not remove me from the conversation, nor did I leave it myself. This screen is exactly as it is just appeared in Messages that day.
I didn’t delete this new thread, but then yesterday I noticed it had disappeared - because it just got integrated into the group chat I’m actually in, aMing all of our regular messages. As seen below:
Then today some more glitching happened with the group chat I’m in, where it claimed my father-in-law renamed it to the name of the other group chat (he didn’t), and then the existing group photo disappeared (hence the messages shown):
These sorts of glitches to our regular chat happen every now and then, along with the errors where I get messages not intended for me. This is harmless for us, but it’s bizarre - as I’m sure many people send messages that they don’t want being forwarded to people for whom they’re not intended!
Sometimes me and other members of the group get removed (and it’ll say we left or that another member removed us, but no one took that action). These sorts of incidences are very annoying and result in some of us missing messages we DO want to see.
We’ve tried deleting the group chats and making new ones with the same people, but the glitches always return. We all use iPhones so it’s not an issue of SMS messages getting twisted due to an Android user in play. Truly we have no idea how we can stop this from continuing to happen. It’s just a huge annoyance for us, but it also raises a privacy issue for other people.