People baffled as they receive texts from the 12th century and the year 2293 in bizarre reported iOS glitch

Some iPhone users have come across a strange message from a different timeline.

Over on the iPhone subreddit, people have been sharing text messages that have come through as dated in completely different years.

One user shares a messaged that's supposedly come from the future. Specifically, the year 2293.

One Redditor posted a screenshot of a message they apparently received, writing: "This text message won’t delete no matter what I’ve tried shows the date of 2293.

"I reset the phone, but when the backup is restored from the cloud, it pops back up . Anyone had ever seen anything like this?"

The contact name is ambiguously just 'D C'. The post has racked up over 2k upvotes and over 100 comments from other confused iPhone users.

Despite saying they've tried to delete it, the OP explains that the message still remains.

Meanwhile, another Apple device user received an iMessage from a contact called meetpal.ai and it was dated April 14 in the year 1146.

Unfortunately, this isn’t some mind-blowing time travel scenario.

In fact, it's supposedly nothing more than a glitch on Apple's part.

People have been poking humour at the glitch on Reddit, with comments like: "Can finally scratch time travel off my 2024 bucket list".

Another said: "Got this a few days ago and it wont go away. Weirdest thing ever".

Someone else chimed in: "Weird. Looks like the same day as mine. Wonder if there's some sort of bug."

Another iPhone user joked "New iOS 18 timed send messages is working well - even across centuries."

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This is not the first glitch iOS 18 has had.

Just last month, iPhone owners were warned about a different text glitch that could cause major data loss when they tried to fix it.

This bug is triggered by certain messages sent from Apple Watch users and causes Apple’s Messages app to crash repeatedly.

Apple Watch users can share their watch faces with contacts over Messages or Mail directly from their wrist.

But if someone using iOS 18 on an iPhone replies to that watch face message via a thread, the glitch occurs.

Once that happens, the Messages app becomes nearly unusable for both the Apple Watch and iPhone users. iPhone owners can’t even open other conversations in the app because it keeps crashing.

The only way to 'break the curse' so to speak, is to delete the entire thread from both devices, which means losing all conversation history and any attachments like photos, videos, and voice notes.