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Saturday, May 28th, 2016 2:15 PM

Text message sent was changed when received

I sent a text message yesterday at 2:07 and when the person received it, the second half was not the same. Why??

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8 years ago

Hi @CorAline

 

Thank you for posting your question to AT&T through Community Forums! We definitely apologize that the text messaging on the device are getting changed!

 

When you mention that the “second half” of the message is changed, does this happen when the message is rather long and divides the message into two but delivers the second half first?

 

AT&T does not intercept the text messaging content that is being sent from your device.

 

It is possible that the message was sent out of order after it was split into multiple messages. The stock messaging application on the majority of devices can only handle 160 characters per message before it splits.

 

Hope this helps! Thank you for choosing AT&T!

 

Tim, Community Specialist

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7 years ago

This has been happening to me as well. No, the messages were not long enough to be sent in two sections. Also, some messages were received hours after they were sent, and sometimes never received at all, but they are marked as sent. Why is this happening? This isn't the first time, and sometimes we laugh, other times, it really causes problems.
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