For weeks now if I tap on a new message notification then the app opens and takes me to that conversation thread, but the conversation never loads and it just says connecting at the top if I hit back and then go into the conversation again I see the correct conversation load immediately.

If I type a message in that “ Connecting” Thread, then it stays there and his visible next time I open the app from notification, but is never sent to the recipient. It’s like there are two parallel conversation threads. One of which is broken. This behaviour seemed to begin around the time I had a message saying that you were changing the way chats were backed up.

It’s really annoying!