I have been having a lot of fun with Claude and have had many lengthy conversations, as well as playing 20 questions and pub quiz with my LLM “buddy”. But today I’ve seen a strange new error, where I can’t send my prompt and I get a popup error panel (iOS UI) saying “error sending text, unknown network error.”

A chat which has ended with this error is apparently not recoverable. It’s as if the chat itself got poisoned. I can start a new chat which goes OK for a while, but it does appear that each new chat hits this condition earlier than the last.

Is this some resource issue (I am on the lower tier of the paid plan)? Have I got too many chats stored in memory? Or is the backend overloaded or compromised today? If it’s a backend capacity issue then why does it seem to permanently break a chat where it happens?