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texts sent to family member appear as little square

Drumjazz

When I send texts that contain contractions - "I'm", "I'll", etc - to my wife, they appear as a series of little squares in the message proper, with no legible letters. The preview shows a few words of the text but when you open it you see the squares. I don't know a lot about how or what text languages are used or to adjust/fix this, but there is some kind of translation problem. I am sending from an iPhone 6 running system 11.0.3. My wife has and older LG Cosmos (talk & text only). Thanks for any advice (besides, "don't use contractions!" lol)! P.S. I hope I am a first time poster and hope I am posting in the right forum.

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yarelim_vzw

Welcome to the Community Drumjazz! What you are currently experiencing on your iPhone is a minor glitch that has been corrected with a new iOS update. In order to get this fixed the glitch, you will need to update your iOS to the 11.1.1.

Click on the link for steps on how to I Update the iOS on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support

yarelim_vzw

Drumjazz

Hi,

Thanks for the suggestion, however the squares are appearing on my wife's LG Cosmos (not my iPhone) from texts I have sent her from my iPhone, which I updated as you suggested. It did not correct the issue. I hope my question is clear. Thanks.

John

yarelim_vzw

Thanks for clarifying Drumjazz. Let's keep digging to figure out what has happened. Does this happen on all her text messages?

Drumjazz

It happens every time when I use common English contractions, like “I’ll” for “I will”, or “I’m” for “I am”. It also happens with possessive words where I might use an apostrophe, like: “where is the dog’s ball?”

Verizon_Support

Drumjazz, thanks so much for sharing these additional details. May we ask if your wife's phone experiences the same issue whenever anyone else sends her a text message with an apostrophe? Can you also tell us when this issue originally started?

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Drumjazz

Rebecca doesn’t text a lot, just with me mostly. I just sent her this text from my iPhone, “I’m sending a text” and it was all squares when she received it. I then sent a text from my laptop to her via vtext, [removed] Same message, and she was able to read it fine.

We think this has been going on more than a month and maybe two. Not really sure.

Maybe it is related to my iPhone, like the text languages are not compatible?

Thanks.

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Verizon_Support

Your efforts are greatly appreciated, let's get to the bottom this once and for all. I will be sending you a Private Message momentarily.

AyaniB_VZW

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nesslowe

I am having the same issue, and I would love to know how this was resolved. when i send my son text messages to his lg cosmos phone from my iphone and i write "i'm" or similar the whole text shows up to him as little boxes.

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