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Flow not asking for phone number before sending message, also experiencing DELAYS

  • August 10, 2026
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Saruul

Hi everyone,

I built a flow that's supposed to collect the user's phone number before sending them further messages/content. However, it seems the flow is skipping the phone number request step entirely and sending the message directly, without ever prompting the user to enter their phone number.

Looking closer at the flow logic, I think I found the issue: I have a Condition step that checks "Phone# is unknown" after a "Waiting for phone from contact" action. But it looks like BOTH branches — the one where the contact never responded/phone is unknown, AND the one where the contact doesn't match any conditions — eventually merge back into the same Action step and continue into the same next automation. So contacts who never gave their phone number are being treated the same as contacts who did, and both get pushed forward into the next automation/message.

Out of ~18,600 people the message was sent to, only 97 actually responded with a phone number — so this branching issue is affecting the vast majority of contacts.

Additionally, I'm noticing delays in the flow — messages/actions aren't triggering as fast as expected.

Has anyone run into this before? Is this expected behavior with the Condition/branching logic, or am I missing something in how to properly separate "phone number received" vs "phone number not received" paths so they don't converge?

Any troubleshooting steps or fixes would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance!

4 replies

Gustavo Boregio
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  • August 10, 2026

Hey ​@Saruul could you share a screenshot of your automation so we can take a peak and help you find the issue?


Dr Rose
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  • August 10, 2026

Hi - cross-posting here to show a similar problem. My trigger works and a I see the first message but it doesn’t go further, getting stuck when it is supposed to be collecting an email. Three screenshots below:
1. Overall flow (Trigger on a FB post comment, Send a message to get confirmation, Collect email, etc.)
2. Details of second step
3. Details of email collection

 

 


Dr Rose
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  • August 11, 2026

Update: despite no changes on my side, it appears to be working now. So I’m going to assume that ManyChat found an issue and fixed it


Gustavo Boregio
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  • August 12, 2026

Hey ​@Dr Rose indeed, it seems to have been an issue with Meta and Manychat has been able to fix it!