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Some adults have children. And young relatives. And other acquaintances that will spam them, however innocent their intentions might be.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how this can become a major annoyance.


So go into Accesability and enable reduce motion, it also seems to disable the sending and receiving of the full screen iMessage effects.
 
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So in order to avoid visual diarrhea on my cellphone, I should tell kids to stop being kids? How about the ability to disable said visual diarrhea?

Like I said, I'm moving to Android so it's a moot point. I'm still entitled to my view, however. Apple is now catering to 12 year olds and it shows.

What are you so concerned about with kids? Do you have facebook? Twitter? Snapchat? Because if you have any of these then you probably are aware that kids could spam you on those as well. How often do you have children texting you that are not your own? And if they are yours, don't you think it would be fun to have them send you silly texts once in awhile? I mean seriously, can you explain your logic?
 
I agree about the stupid Emoji for kids but I just don't use them.
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That was aimed at Nope
I don't know how much it takes from hard space...but if Emoji 5k version will take good chunk of hard space, I think there would be an outrage....probably.
 
Android is still arse! It sucks, is ugly, and the battery life is still crap. The theming looks like little kids made them. That is the only thing missing from the iPhone is a fresh UI. - but the current one is clean and professional looking (not like an ape did the UI for Android). I have an S6 sitting in my drawer used for 2 days I will sell you for $300.

Just purely curious, but why do you have a S6 if you only used it for 2 days?
 
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As I think about this and back to the keynote, it almost seems a bit overkill adding all this stuff to iMessages. But I suppose I don't have to use it either. I wonder if any of the more advanced things can be disabled so others sending me these things come through more normal.

yes those features get disabled if you disable 'zoom and effects' in accessibility. I had this on for the longest time and couldn't figure out why i couldn't send/receive the special effects!
 
So in order to avoid visual diarrhea on my cellphone, I should tell kids to stop being kids? How about the ability to disable said visual diarrhea?

Like I said, I'm moving to Android so it's a moot point. I'm still entitled to my view, however. Apple is now catering to 12 year olds and it shows.
So Apple shouldn't add features that could personally annoy you? Am I personally going to sue this feature? Not very often, but there will be plenty of people that do and that's why it is there. If people send me stuff that is stupid and annoying (in my opinion), then I just tell them to stop, mute their conversation, block their number, etc. - the same stuff that I do today.
 
Sorry, I don't actually live in 'Murica.

But I might as well. This slippery POS already has a nice long crack from corner to corner. Depending on resale value, I might take a hammer to it instead. I'm not joking either -- did that with an old IBM laptop that gave me nothing but trouble. Highly therapeutic, highly recommended.
Yeeeeeeeeeeah... I'm thinking that the problem here may not be iOS...
 
Is this beta good enough for a main device yet or should I wait?

In my opinion, wait. Some apps do not work, very very few so far that I've seen, but still...it doesn't really give you enough to be worth the beta to possibly screw up your main device. I'm using it on my iPad, which is really just a spare device for me...

Good luck!
 
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In my opinion, wait. Some apps do not work, very very few so far that I've seen, but still...it doesn't really give you enough to be worth the beta to possibly screw up your main device. I'm using it on my iPad, which is really just a spare device for me...

Good luck!
Thank you!
 
Children sending emoticons and animations are disrespect
What are you so concerned about with kids? Do you have facebook? Twitter? Snapchat? Because if you have any of these then you probably are aware that kids could spam you on those as well. How often do you have children texting you that are not your own? And if they are yours, don't you think it would be fun to have them send you silly texts once in awhile? I mean seriously, can you explain your logic?

I'm not on any of those.

The reasoning is that I want a messaging app to send people quick messages. I'm not interested in visual effects, oversized emoticons, replacing words with images mid-sentence, swiping to view a message, etc. If others would like those things, then fine. But there should still be the option for the receiver to disable them.

But again, what so many of you seem to be missing, is the clear admission that I'm abandoning iOS for a multitude of reasons (hardware being one of them). Apple is taking the functionality of the iPhone in a direction that I do not care to go. What is so difficult to understand about that?

You can keep your animated images, and I'll move to a platform that's more adult friendly. I don't see the tension here.

EDIT: oops, I think I responded to the wrong person!
 
Children sending emoticons and animations are disrespect


You can keep your animated images, and I'll move to a platform that's more adult friendly. I don't see the tension here.

Haha...more adult friendly? The UI on Android is the worst. They should change the name too - always hated 'Android'. Who gives a crap about stupid robots?

You also won't be getting any updates for that crappy platform very often.
 
In the process of installing right now. I'm going to be totally honest here and say that I have been spoiled by these betas so far. They've had minimal bugs and the ones that do come up have never been show-stoppers.
 
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