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Uninstall Messages Beta to Fix Your iMessage Lag


Apple's SMS replacement protocol, called iMessages, lets you send free text messages between iPhones, which is great. What's not so great is that a lot of users have been experiencing iMessage lag involving long delays receiving new messages. If that sounds familiar to you, the New York Times' Brian X. Chen has a possible fix:

After it happened to me a fourth time, I complained about it on Twitter, and one of my followers came forward with a possible fix:

uninstall Messages Beta

, an early version of iMessage for the Mac that Apple released in February. Some of my friends and I have done just that and haven't experienced the problem since.

I haven't experienced the iMessage bug so I haven't been able to test this fix, but if you've had this problem, it's worth a try.

A Potential Fix for iMessage Woes | NYT via @bxchen