Like A phantom pregnancy. (Where you think you're pregnant but your actually not)
Whilst waiting for a text message, you think you can feel your phone vibrate and get excited but it is actually just your imagination.
Girl1: Oh! My phone's gone off!
Girl2: Omg, has he texted back?!
Girl1: Hmm, I haven't got anything, must be a Phantom Text Message.
by applehop July 23, 2009
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You could swear you feel your phone vibrate against your thigh, but when you look there are no text messages.
You: (pulls phone out of pocket to check text)
Your wife: That better not be that little slut from your office texting you again!
You: It was a phantom text message, honest!
by fbar December 1, 2010
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Where you get notifications for a message and you check to see it but it isn’t there and when no one deleted it.

Even when you check a groups audit log it will show no sign of a message being deleted.
“Did you delete these messages?”
“No, must be some phantom messages
by Maxi moo October 19, 2020
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