I have an iPhone X running iOS 14.2. Today, for no known reason 3 people I have an ongoing history of messaging, all on iPhones also, had their entire threads disappear. When I went to message one of them today, it was as though we'd never messaged before. I found two others the same way. 2 of those people I had already messaged several times earlier today.

Now, no existing thread. Strange thing is that on both of my Macs at home and my Apple Watch 5, those threads still exist. I can scroll back on past messages- but not on my phone. All are synced. Anyone have any idea what's going on or how I can restore those past messages?

I would add that I have already restarted several times along with turning off Messages and MMS in the settings app and turning them back on several times.

I just can't figure out why they are still on other devices and not my phone.

Who's your service provider?
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Appears to mostly hit group chats.

[www.macrumors.com] (Ignore the bit about the iPhone 12. If you scroll down you'll see that it's a bug in iOS 14.)

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