IOS 8 Disappearing Messages

My iOS 8 iPhone 5S text messages always disappear and I need to restart it to make it appear again.
I tried closing it at multitasking and reopen it but the messages won't comeback unless I restart the phone. It happens alot. I guess it's because I have 3k+ text messages and it must be the continuity feature that makes it disappear. In iOS 7.1.2 it doesn't happen, only in iOS 8. So annoying.

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How do I sync iMessage on iOS with Messages on OSX Lion?

This morning, an Update for Messages on OSX was announced.
I just downloaded the Beta and it is running quite well.
There is one last question!
How do you sync iMessage on iOS with Messages on OSX Lion.
Example:
I'm texting with Jana on my Mac - but I can't see this conversation on my iPhone / iPad even tho´ the email adress is added in my "iMessages-Settings" on iPhone/iPad.
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Best regards from Germany.
Andreas

Hi,
I contacted my son on his iPhone by his number.
He did not have his email linked to his Apple ID
When he did that he could message me with that ID rather then the phone number.
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Hey geoff_zen,
Thanks for the question. After reviewing your post, it sounds like you arr having trouble with group messages. I would recommend that you read this article, it may be able to help you resolve or isolate the issue.
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To resolve issues with sending and receiving iMessages, follow these steps
Check iMessage system status for current service issues.
Go to Settings > Messages > Send & Receive and make sure that you registered iMessage with your phone number or Apple ID and that you selected iMessage for use. If the phone number or Apple ID isn't available for use, troubleshoot iMessage registration.
Open Safari and navigate to www.apple.com to verify data connectivity. If a data connection isn't available, troubleshoot cellular data or a Wi-Fi connection.
iMessage over cellular data might not be available while you're on a call. Only 3G and faster GSM networks support simultaneous data and voice calls. Learn which network your phone supports. If your network doesn't support simultaneous data and voice calls, go to Settings > Wi-Fi and turn Wi-Fi on to use iMessage while you're on a call.
Restart your device.
Tap Settings > General > Reset > Reset Network Settings on your iPhone.
If you still can't send or receive an iMessage, follow these steps
Make sure that the contact trying to message you isn't blocked in Settings > Messages > Blocked.
Make sure that the contact you're trying to send a message to is registered with iMessage.
If the issue occurs with a specific contact or contacts, back up or forward important messages and delete your current messaging threads with the contact. Create a new message to the contact and try again.
If the issue occurs with a specific contact or contacts, delete and recreate the contact in the Contacts app. Create a new message to the newly created contact and try again.
Back up and restore your device as new.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Have a nice day,
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Another disappearing Messages problem

Mac OS 10.8.3
Messages 7.0.1
iOS 6.1.4
Every once in a while I will have a great number of Messages disappear from my Mac. This seems to only affect one conversation at a time and a few days or even a few weeks worth of conversations will disappear. For example, I have about 20 conversations open in Messages and one of those conversations is missing all the messages that were sent and received from and to all devices on Tuesday, whereas all the other conversations that had messages sent on Tuesday still have those messages present.
The missing portions of conversations are also missing from ~/library/messages/archive/, however all the messages are still present on my iPhone.
This is affecting:
Messages from iOS devices sent to my Mac/iPhone.
Messages from Macs sent to my Mac/iPhone.
Messages I sent from my iPhone to Macs/iOS devices.
Messages I sent from my Mac to Macs/iOS devices.
"Save history when conversations are closed" is checked, but I have never closed these conversations, so that doesn't seem to be relevant.
"Start New Conversations" from is set to the same email address on both my Mac and my iPhone.
I have recently reset PRAM for a different reason, and because this happens infrequently, I'm not sure I could link the two.
Any ideas?

HI,
I am going to thank you for your post.
It does make it clear that at least for some the non appearance of even disappearance of some of the iMessages is random.
I am beginning to think that this issue is unrelated to the issue the mixed up order of iMessages on the Mac version.
Although the chat.db (in the same folder as the Archives) is difficult to read in Quick Look or even Open With TextEdit - does it contain the "missing" iMessages ?
NOTE
I am not sure there is an answer to this at the present time but the extra info you have supplied does help.
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IOS 6 & Messages

Good Morning Everyone
i updated my iphone to IOS 6 this week and i noticed that old messages on my Iphone disappear as soon as i click on them!!!!!
in the bellow Pic, Governmental message received on 15 Sep...in the messages home page it show me a preview of the message:
now when i open the message it disappear!!!:
thank you and waiting for Apple help...

anyone can help!!!!

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HT201210 cant restore my ipad from itunes after updating latest ios. message tells me to turn off 'find my ipad' from my ipad, but I can't because the set up is not complete without the restore. What do I do?

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Messaging problem on IOS 6 - messages fail when contacts have linkages

Hi,
I don't know if anybody else is having this problem as well; I could not find anything particularly like this issue which is affecting me. Perhaps it's possible that others have experienced this problem and just used the workaround and not bother to notify Apple.
When IOS 6 linked up with Facebook it reimported all my facebook contacts into my contact list,which meaned that I had many duplicates of my contacts where I once had their original numbers in my contacts on the phone without the need of a new card, with facebook email address included and whatever it could obtain from FB. I found a solution online that you could then link your contacts to get around that issue, by clicking on the link button. You could then amalgamate those duplicate contacts (sometimes had 3 or 4 contacts for a single person).
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Hello folks
Firstly, apologies for the delayed response. Have been out of town with no access to internet, hence the delay.
To answer some of the questions posed here-
-This does not happen when I sent the text message to 4 or 5 people
-I have usually come across this scenario when I try to forward a message I have received to people in my contact list.
-Yes, each and every message is definitely sent to a mobile phone number and not to an email id
- When more than 10 people are selected it definitely changes to MMS and has shown the message size as 0.5kb (about 12 recipients)
- There is no option of 'text message' when options>sending options>message type is chosen once the message turns from text to MMS message, after more than 10 recipients are chosen.
-The message I tried to forward consisted of about 150 characters
Any help to get to the correct cause and find a solution would be greatly appreciated as I often forward a messages to a lot of people in my contacts list.
Thank you to each one of you who has made an effort to help me.

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