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14 Ways Apple Is Improving Messages in iOS 27

So they can consolidate notifications for Tapbacks, but not messages in general? I still have to receive fifty individual message notifications from the one group chat, or have it muted entirely? Oh well done Apple, well done.
 
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Still not cross platform like other messaging apps 🙁 No matter how good the app is, it's useless if you can't message someone becuase they can't use it and it's not accessible to them
 
Parowdy said:
Cool. So because you don’t need it there can’t be a reason someone else needs it? I often get SMS about upcoming appointments and shipments that are then at the top of my chats, always. That’s annoying and not a problem in other messaging apps even without SMS.

Honestly, you’re GLAD a small but handy feature that’s available in all other messaging apps that would not bother you ONCE and could be hidden behind a swipe gesture or in a menu was “deprioritized”?
You’re glad about that… telling
“I don’t need the feature so I’m glad it doesn’t exist, even though it would take practically no time to develop and implement and wouldn’t ever be in my way”
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To be fair, @mdelvecchio did say “personally” and “to me”.
It seems fine to me to have different priorities than others.
 
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nmishkin said:
How about adding some of that "intelligence" to autocomplete and, just to pick a egregious example that I see repeatedly, guess that it's 1000x more likely that I meant to type "Thanks" and not "Tusks" as the first word of a reply.
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I agree and hope will learn individual style of typing/common typos. Like you said if it's the same thing manually corrected over and over its seems like iOS AI wouldn't be that hard to [automatically] update internal autocorrect.

For some reason I thought keyboard was supposed to do that already but I still fix common errors all the time.
 
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To be fair, @mdelvecchio did say “personally” and “to me”.
It seems fine to me to have different priorities than others.
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Of course it is ok.
But to be “glad” that Apple only adds one notable feature to iMessage per year while all major messaging apps are running leaps around it is not ok. To be “glad” other iMessage users have to hope and wait another year is not ok. The wording is simply not ok.
 
There Apple goes again, still not actually adding functionality that users like me want (message thread archiving). The inbox can look like a complete mess without it if there are several chats running intermittently.
 
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Parowdy said:
Until there is a way to archive chats, like it’s possible in any other messaging app, iMessage will continue to be looked down by non-US residents. Even grouping chats for like work, private, family, etc. would be a big step up. But no.
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I was surprised there was no way to archive chats. That seems like a simple fix and coming back from Android, it's a feature I actually miss.
 
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And yet Apple is implementing a non standard version of RCS Universal Profile (3.0) ignoring MANDATORY features because they want the experience for groups with android users feel miserable.

This mix and match thing is disgusting.

They have nerve.
 
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TwoBytes said:
Still not cross platform like other messaging apps 🙁 No matter how good the app is, it's useless if you can't message someone becuase they can't use it and it's not accessible to them
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THIS.

I do the majority of my business client management on WhatsApp because everybody has WhatsApp.
It's not perfect, but the ability to categorise chats and easily group chat (because everyone has WhatsApp, remember) means that I can have multiple conversations with prosepctive clients without wondering if they've seen a message.

For me - Apple can't compete with WA. Until I can organise categories for work and home, Folders, or tags, I just can't use messages. It's dead in the water to me.
 
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MacRumors said:


Apple at this year's WWDC emphasized that its approach to iOS 27 development was to add fewer newer features and instead make existing features better. Examples of that approach can be seen across the operating system, but it is arguably most obvious in the changes coming to Messages.
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Arguably, the most glaring omission in Messages is the ability to search within a conversation. I know I'm not in some small minority that keeps long-running conversations with friends and family - i've had one open with my daughter for 2+ years! But, god forbid I want to find something I know I've mentioned in such chats - it's an endless scroll :-( Sure, there's a global search - but that rarely helps because it returns too many results! And, really, how hard it could possibly be to add a little "..." in the top right of a conversation with "Search" as one of the options?

Every release brings a bunch of useless additional emojis, Animoji's, whatever. But real and obvious software improvements are much harder to come by.

And Apple Maps has now, for 4+ years, failed to provide multi-stop navigation for pedestrians. Seems like an obvious thing, right? You're a tourist in a new city and want to see a few sites - e.g. in Paris, Arc De Triomphe, Louvre, Eiffel Tower, etc. Sorry - with Apple Maps you can't plan your trip for the next day. Instead, we get "better flyover"?!?! For a $4T company, Apple sure is a slow MF when it comes to making useful changes/enhancements.
 
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EugW said:
Messages on macOS needs better storage management syncing with iCloud. Photos can manage photo/video storage in iCloud automatically which saves of a lot of local storage space, but Messages just creates a huge local directory of photos/videos.
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Yeah I don't understand the design, so much duplication in storage space from media within messages app. The more annoying thing with OS26 is previously you could manage storage by conversation (similar to whatsapp) and see how much each space each conversation taking up, drill down into the largest ones and delete any large videos for example. That's gone for some reason now - while you can remove media within conversations you can't manage it the way you could before and see how much space each item was taking up or how much space each conversation was taking up.
 
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Parowdy said:
The fact that they only this year thought about the miserable experience that was sending multiple photos, videos or texts is telling.
Until there is a way to archive chats, like it’s possible in any other messaging app, iMessage will continue to be looked down by non-US residents. Even grouping chats for like work, private, family, etc. would be a big step up. But no.
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I’m just glad they are finally paying attention to the core things people use every day instead of wasting all their time on crap no one wants.

I would take another whole year of updates like this.
 
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ProbablyDylan said:
I worked around this by turning off badges altogether. The Notification Center is the only place I want notifications.
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Thats a good workaround I suppose.

I’m just in the habit of revealing the dock to see if I have any messages and I would really like it to only show ones I want, which is not muted threads.
 
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