Not sure if only Kuwait is affected by this bug but a reader made me realize that if you have iOS6 installed on your phone and you try to open an SMS you’ve received from your bank, telecom operator, shipping company etc.. you’ll get a blank message. Then, when you close the message it will disappear completely from your messages list.
The above picture is of a message I received from American Express, it showed as empty when I opened it and then when I clicked back it got deleted. The reader shot a YouTube video which shows this [Here]
That’s pretty messed up.
Thanks Ahmad
Update: OK there is some good news here. New messages from your bank, telecom etc. will display in iOS6 normally. I just received one from Aramex now and it was fine. But old messages that were there before updating to iOS6 won’t show.
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Time to switch back to nokia 3310 🙂
same here 🙁
I guess I won’t be updating just yet 🙂
I’m going to wait to update now as well. Thanks for the tip M&M (New nickname for Mark).
I am not able to upgrade, I downloaded it but everytime I hit install, I get this error: “An error occured installing iOS 6.”
Any idea what the pb is?
Aramex, Amex, and Gulf Bank messages dont show up like you said.
But Nbk messages were fine.
I’ve been using iOS 6 for months now, and never noticed this bug? Maybe its just in Kuwait?
Didn’t IOS6 come out last week?
He must have been betas which are meant for developers
Wahhhh! I just updated yesterday :O( Double darn!
Yeah thats a bummer :((((( i realized today when i got one from GB; wierd thing is that it shows in the notification cneter, but not when you open the actual text.
inshallah they’ll find a fix ASAP.
update on the Aramex msg’s. i just received a msg on a shipment. it works fine, i opened it read it, closed it reopened it and the msg is still there.
yeah it looks like this bug affects msgs pre update
No such issues….All messages are intact…
Updated my 4s and same issue with old sms messages.
On ipad2 apps like popular science are missing all the previous issues. Restore previous purchases does not work.
After Reading this i tried to open message from zian..Damn it was blank and got deleted when i went back to messages…how can this bug be fixed??any idea..
Ok all is well now..:) just got a message from GBank
i was worried for a bit 😛
Did you backup from iTunes ?
I had all my backup in my iCloud, and after updating everything was normal.
I had my recent contact list, messages, email. Did not have to do anything.
Mark, do you use Text Enhance? Most irritating thing on the internet. I keep thinking it is a link in the article or comments and it turns out to be a MarkaVIP ad telling me to buy ripoff designer crap.
? are you getting markavip links on my blog? cuz you shouldn’t. could you be more specific??
Android, Windows > iOS
You may recover your SMS messages by backing up your iphone and opening the SMS database file with an external utility. Follow this post:
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/4310439?start=0&tstart=0
I just checked my messages from NBK and nothing happened / no message was deleted!