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Apple sort it out, where is iCloud messaging

Kylo83

Kylo83

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For the life of me can’t understand apple sometimes, why can’t the watch sync messages like all the other devices With iCloud messages, it’s a pain deleting them always after; and there’s no select all option, why can’t they sync with iCloud like the phone iPad and Mac?
 
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This is the biggest annoyance for years of owning an Apple Watch, I have even sent in reccomended requested features every year to hope they finally get it, just a pain to delete messages one by one.
 
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I've got the halfway house of at least if i delete an iMessage from my phone or watch it goes off the other one, just leaves you having to deal with anything thats not iMessage. Fortunately for me the majority of folk i message are on iMessage anyway.
 
This has been a long-standing annoyance for me as well. Apple are becoming increasingly backward, arrogant and apathetic… This “feature”, no calculator on the iPad, no weather app on the iPad… The list grows every year… completely nonsensical as to why these issues still exist. And don’t get me started on the cluster **** that is iOS 15 and HomeKit.
 
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Why homekit? I was planning to get into home automation this year, never used the home app or homekit accessories
 
I just picked up a Watch SE and I swear iMessages used to sync with no problem. Lately I’ve been getting lots of election texts from the state in which I got my phone number (haven’t lived there in 20 years). I delete all of those conversations on my phone and none of them are syncing.

It’s like a one-way sync. The watch can pick up new messages and conversations but cannot recognize when they’re deleted? What a royal PITA.
 
Oh yeah, just discovered this amazing feature myself on my first Watch ever. To watch and delete every message that I want to delete on three of my devices is simply amazing and I love how Apple is making me do it and stay more active.

Sync works flawlessly for incoming messages, but is borked when deleting messages. I have been deleting messages separately on iPhone and Mac for so long I have forgotten about it. It used to be very simple, very reliable - deleting on one device deleted on other reliably. No longer, for God only knows how many years.

And now, I have an Apple Watch where I think I should set a weekly reminder to delete messages and somehow make it work with Activity Rings for physical activity. I will need to use the Mindfulness and Breathe apps afterwards anyway, so ...
 
EddieKeyton1 said:
I do a lot for quick replies when I am at work. Not everyone uses tech like you do. It’s actually pretty convenient when busy.
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Same here. I spend a good bit of time in my car and being able to speak a quick reply to my watch while keeping my eyes on the road is a great feature.
 
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Caviar_X said:
Who even uses the Messages app on the watch? Just use your phone ffs. The few times where I had to send a message I used speak to text. Never would I scroll through Messages on a watch.
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Another one on the list here that uses it for quick messaging, replies, reading messages. I either use one of the quick replies or emoticons like thumbs up to reply, Siri to dictate a reply like i do on CarPlay or i have the Flicktype keyboard app installed which is not that bad for typing a longer message. Handy when out walking or alike and not have to dig my phone out of coat pockets and things.
 
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Who even uses the Messages app on the watch? Just use your phone ffs. The few times where I had to send a message I used speak to text. Never would I scroll through Messages on a watch.
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My iPhone is pretty much always at home. I use my watch for most things. Admittedly I fortunately don't have many phone calls or annoying messages.
 
This is just another example of Apple these days being user hostile. It‘s totally preposterous that deleting messages from iPhone or iPad does not delete them from Apple Watch. It actually says they will be deleted from all devices when you try to delete one. Worse, when you do eventually get around to clearing out the messages on the watch, it takes like a month to delete each and every one. I still love Apple hardware, but they are becoming increasingly difficult to like as a company. All the platforms are now riddled with bugs and bad design choices. Most of which never get fixed while they press ahead with endless new headline features. Most of which break something else 🙄
 
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Caviar_X said:
Who even uses the Messages app on the watch? Just use your phone ffs. The few times where I had to send a message I used speak to text. Never would I scroll through Messages on a watch.
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And how does that prevent the messages from cluttering up the watch? Just because you don’t interact with them doesn’t mean they’re not there.
 
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I use my watch and phone for messaging, depends on my mood at the given time. it is nice if I am driving can look at the watch at a stop light and reply to the message by voice and not give it away to others what I am doing, it looks to others like I am using bluetooth for a phone call since I drive a Jag. haven't really noticed about it deleting on other devices or not, and maybe it just hasn't bothered me yet.
 
Forgive my curiosity, but why do people want to delete their messages? I hardly ever delete my messages from any device.
 
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Forgive my curiosity, but why do people want to delete their messages? I hardly ever delete my messages from any device.
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Because if I don't, I end with up with hundreds of conversations and weird combos of 2,3,4 (or more) people in groups and it's all just a huge mess

I keep my Messages situation pretty tidy and delete stuff once the conversations taper off for a week+ or so
 
turbineseaplane said:
Because if I don't, I end with up with hundreds of conversations and weird combos of 2,3,4 (or more) people in groups and it's all just a huge mess

I keep my Messages situation pretty tidy and delete stuff once the conversations taper off for a week+ or so
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You mean you delete entire conversations, not individual messages? That's never synced across devices for me. I find that when I want to delete conversations, I have to do it on each of my devices -- iPhone, iPad, Mac.
 
Night Spring said:
You mean you delete entire conversations, not individual messages? That's never synced across devices for me. I find that when I want to delete conversations, I have to do it on each of my devices -- iPhone, iPad, Mac.
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Entire conversations, yeah

I also never get that to sync across devices
Drives me nuts, particularly on the Mac where there is currently no "select conversations" mode, and I have to delete them one...by one...by one...

Frickin' awful

This is the kind of stuff that just makes my head shake when anyone claims Apple software isn't a shell of its former quality. They really need to get off the annual push on all platforms and fix, fix, fix things
 
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Night Spring said:
Forgive my curiosity, but why do people want to delete their messages? I hardly ever delete my messages from any device.
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Digital housekeeping.

Night Spring said:
You mean you delete entire conversations, not individual messages? That's never synced across devices for me. I find that when I want to delete conversations, I have to do it on each of my devices -- iPhone, iPad, Mac.
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You probably don’t have Messages checked in iCloud settings.
 
turbineseaplane said:
This is the kind of stuff that just makes my head shake when anyone claims Apple software isn't a shell of its former quality. They really need to get off the annual push on all platforms and fix, fix, fix things
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Best one yet for me is no ‘mark as unwatched’ in TV+ and iTunes. Library housekeeping with Apple video content is impossible as a result. Plus different or just plain absent contextual actions across devices and even across first party apps on the same device! (looking at you Apple TV).

Apple are known for their software prowess yet they’re really not that great anymore. Cook has launched their profits into orbit but the company as a purveyor of quality software and slick UI is a husk of its former self prior to Jobs‘ death. Totally user hostile with an appetite for taking things that work, and breaking them.
 
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