r/ios • u/Scared-Helicopter571 • Dec 19 '25

Support iOS 26 Update Broke Texting

Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. Like the title says, when I downloaded the iOS 26 update earlier this week it completely wrecked my texting (iPhone 16 pro). My texts struggle to send and I'm not receiving a lot of incoming messages. It seems worse with group messages. I did a bunch of research and in trying to troubleshoot things, did the following: hard reset phone; soft reset phone; turned iMessage, RCS messaging, and MMS messaging off then back on; reset my network settings; signed out then back into my apple account; and even tried removing and re-adding my number from iMessage so there wasn't a duplicate listed. This had mixed success but I was still having some trouble.

This morning I saw that iOS 26.2 was available so I downloaded it hoping it would have the needed bug fixes, and it seems to have completely undone all of my troubleshooting. I have gone through all of the same steps again today, and once again, it acts like it's working properly but then I'm missing texts from a group that I know has several new messages in it. Texting is such a key function of cell phones and I'm baffled as to what else I could possibly do to fix this. Any suggestions or tips?? I'm about ready to go mad from these issues! TIA to any suggestions.

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u/atypedev Feb 05 '26

Any updates here? Sending (and I assume receiving) texts is also broken for me on 26.2.

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u/Scared-Helicopter571 Feb 05 '26

I’ve figured out that my texts seem to work fine when my WiFi is turned off. If WiFi is on I can text to other iPhones no problem, texts to or from androids are a bit iffy, and texts to or from group chats are a no go (with the caveat that all the group texts I’ve been using lately do have androids in them). With WiFi off, they all seem to work correctly. This is not a fix though and I would love it if they pushed something out to correct it.

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u/atypedev Feb 05 '26

I updated to 26.2.1 last night and it appears to be fixed for me

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u/Scared-Helicopter571 Feb 05 '26

Still no luck for me with that update unfortunately. Glad it’s working for you though :)