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Jumping on the bandwagon with iOS 15 being the buggiest I can remember, on both my iPhone and iPad. Mainly UI glitches but it’s been causing a lot of issues with 3rd party apps as well.

Though I do remember iOS 10 being pretty shaky as well.
Actually iOS 11 was far worse than iOS 10. Not only was it one of the buggiest updates ever (perhaps even the buggiest ever), but also the only one to ever have one of its promised new features (messages in the cloud) released just two days before the next full version (iOS 12) was announced at the next WWDC. It was ridiculously bad.
 
My bad, the first article I read about it only said it happened if during a restore. You could forward the photos to your own text message, then you would only have one thread (to and from yourself) that you would have to save until the bug is fixed.
That's a good idea, thank you!
 
It actually sounds to me like Apple is on a tik-tok schedule. One years iOS release is OK, and the next one is typically pretty bad. And then that repeats.
 
I'm not getting badge or sound alerts for iMessage from only a few people, and all of my iCloud mail is being marked as read before I even open the Mail app. I'm thinking the iMessage messages are being marked as read immediately, too. It would have the same impact. I know it's not the app itself because I've tried in the Stock Mail App, Spark, Edison Mail, the Gmail app, and Airmail. All of my other accounts are fine across the board but my iCloud Mail has been consistently marked as read as soon as it's delivered. I've checked notification settings on my iPhone, iPad, and my MBP. I've even restored my iPhone & Apple Watch via the IPSW file in Finder. No change.
I'm finding a mixed bag here.. I get an iMessage and read it on my iPhone. Maybe 20-30 seconds later, I get the same notification on my Apple Watch, and even after tapping THAT to see the message on my watch, it's still showing as being unread on my Mac.
 
This still doesn’t work for me! I’ve tried all of the troubleshooting.

It works the first time and then I have to re-toggle the setting back to on. So aggravating.
 
Unlocking not working for me. The buttons slides, prompts for passcode and seems like it is working. But no effect on the iPhone. I reset network settings.

Really annoying.
 
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