Using Phone Link on computer it creates a group in chat - and does not send message to recipient

Downgrading did the trick for me. Thanks for this. Hopr they fix this in the near future.

This same issue started when I was added to a group chat initiated by four iPhone users. I'm the only Android device in the group. When I use Phone Link on Windows 11 to reply to this group within Messages, it incorrectly creates a new group containing the four individual phone numbers and myself with only my reply, which looks silly, instead of posting my reply to the original group which displays correctly in Phone Link.

Phone Link cannot be used at this point reliably.

One thing I want to point out is - at least for me - it's not just creating a duplicate SMS group - the messages are split between the two (or more) groups - meaning that one of the groups shows MY messages - and the duplicate group has the replies from the other members. I tried going to the other group to write messages, thinking that would be where ALL of them would be - instead it either created a THIRD group or the roles flipped (and the group that previously had their replies will have only my messages and vice versa). Very odd behavior. The main issue I have with it is the split of the messages - if both/all groups had all messages, and they were JUST duplicates - it wouldn't be that big of a deal - but - having the messages appear in two separate groups make it wholly unusable.

I have a Samsung S24 Ultra that is up to date with Phone Link v1.25021.67.0 and this occurs regardless of which PC I currently have Phone Link running on (Win11 Lenovo notebook, Win11 clone Office PC, HP AIO PC, Dell Optiplex Win10 PCs I use - randomly happens everywhere - but - once it happens to a group - it never stops - I can delete ALL copies of the group, and the next 1.25021.67.0time I send a message to those people, it creates the duplicate group. From my phone - any of the groups work as their supposed to - it's ONLY a Phone Link related issue as far as I can tell. As stated, it's not consistent - but - it *seems* to definitely happen when the group I am texting is a mixture of iPhone and Android users - I cannot be 100% sure of this - since I don't know the brand/OS of every phone of everyone in every group I am texting - but - there are some groups where my messages are only in one location - some where MY messages are in one group - and all of their replies are in another - both groups have the same people listed in them.

Also - another symptom was occurring, but stopped a couple of weeks ago - when the "clone SMS group" was created, it would have the people in the original group PLUS it would add in one REALLY long email-looking address - here is one from an old group:

jnqwyzlcfnjwg2djnvwws3theuzegk2omf2gkk2coj2w4zlud4vtcnjwge3dombwgmztghzvmy4gmojwmftdkyjugq2dizdbme4dmzlcgaydon3cgi2tazjqmu======@rcs.google.com

I can assure you that this is NOT an address that I typed in there, have in anyone's contact record, or was in the SMS group before the clone group showed up - it only appeared along with the creation of the duplicate group.

Again - this additional address does not seem to be part of the issue anymore - but - maybe this might shed some light on the original cause of the issue.

Appreciate any feedback / suggestions you might have - Thanks!

David

Yes, I have same version, and in last few days, noticed this problem again. Atleast they seem to be trying to fix it, if not (yet) successfully.

Now broken again. Not working on 1.25022.70.0