I'm personally hoping for correct message ordering in iMessage. It frequently puts replies to questions before the question had been asked, so reading back through conversations makes very little sense.

That's been around for years as well, so again no holding my breath.

At least it's faster!

Which iOS version do you have? I recall that same issue, but it was fixed in one of the .x updates, but I don't recall which major version number.

Still happens on 11.4.1, I've got an obvious one last Saturday where I sent a photo and my friend's response to it is placed above as if it were sent before they even saw the photo.

We're both in the same time zone with correctly set clocks.

I appreciate Apple's stance on privacy, but I'm still talking to a lot of people on Messenger because the messages go in the right order there.

Huh, weird. That disappeared from my devices and my friends' and families' devices, so I thought it had been resolved. TIL.

iMessage appears to trust the time stamp from the originating device. If it’s off, message ordering will be wrong.

There’s someone whose texts to me are always “1m from now” when they arrive.

Do you use multiple iOS devices or perhaps Messages on Mac? This bug has been driving me crazy for the last year at least, and I've noticed that it happens more often when I'm using messages on the laptop and phone.

Yeah, I have a Mac, iPhone, and iPad. The photo example I mentioned in another comment was definitely all on one device (I took the photo on my phone, sent it from my phone, and received the out-of-order response on my phone), but maybe even the presence of iCloud syncing is enough to screw it up.

FYI you can tap the status bar to scroll to the top of an iOS list.

I’ve had an iPad since 3 weeks after they were introduced, and I’d never discovered that.