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Apple Testing New iMessage Features Such as Mentions and Retracting Messages, Could Extend to Mac App

Speedy2 said:
Unfortunately, too little too late. That ship has sailed.
So many people have switched to platform-independent messengers like WhatsApp. These messengers happen to be also superior to iMessage when it comes to features and reliability.
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This. I hate WhatsApp (because of FB) but it has become the de facto platform where I live — school groups, meet ups, business discussions all take place on WhatsApp. They were way ahead of the game on features like group moderation, deleting messages, quoted replies, etc. And now they own the market.
 
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iMessage is severely lacking imo.
I don’t use it at all.
FB messenger is best.
Recent updates were terrible.

iMessage needs @Ing, delete messages, rich Twitter previews, better rich previews, fix the crap toolbar, etc

so i can get off fb messenger
 
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To be honest, FB Messenger is the best messaging app (reply to individual messages, tapbacks/reacts, live location sharing), followed by iMessage (tapbacks, full continuity, large attachments, icloud sync and backup), then a distant third Whats App, which feels like a bad AIM/ICQ clone from the nineties - only used because your friends in Asia/Europe had to pay for SMSs back in the aughts.
 
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Mr. Heckles said:
I wish they would make it cross platform and make it so I can use it on iCloud.com too.
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i believe that the latter request is impossible to implement concomitantly with end-to-end encryption. what ive heard is that if you can view something on the web, that the server that’s displaying the content must have the decryption key as well, meaning that there is a middle man that holds a plain text representation of the chat transcript and that therefore the conversation cant be end-to-end encrypted
 
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ipedro said:
I’m trying not to be paranoid but we were talking about a specific Sony camera in WhatsApp, and it took no longer than a few minutes for ads for that specific camera to appear in my Instagram feed.
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This 👆.
I was on a WhatsApp call in the night with a colleague talking about her starting coding. Next morning her Facebook was plastered with adverts and all sorts of stuff about coding.
 
I really respect iMessage and some comments, but let's educate some followers. In Europe and Middle East, most of the people uses WhatsApp, not FB Messenger, not iMessage. Most of Apple owners even don't know iMessage and its features well. After Telegram, I honestly can't say that it is same with Whatsapp or iMessage. Telegram has so many features that should be exampled by Facebook and Apple. They had stickers when iMessage/WhatsApp has not, and now when they finally decided to put, Telegram decided to make 60 fps smooth animated stickers, which they don't have or even don't plan to do it. The only thing Telegram doesn't provide is Video Calling and I don't use it anywhere besides FaceTime, so I don't mind it.

And Telegram does this with Open Source where others may not even publish their codes. I love Telegram but most of the people uses WhatsApp in these regions.

Of course China is using WeChat, I know, I didn't see anyone here that uses WeChat, so I have no idea.

And balkans like Chechia and Serbia tend to use Viber more than WhatsApp in my travels.
 
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I have been a windows/ android user ever since first android phone came out. When I first saw iMessage and Facetime in action I felt in Love with iOs and in 2012 I switch from windows to Apple. What I love the most about iMessage is how it integrates with iOS apps and macOS apps as well. It is so easy to share anything with anybody (at least iOS users)... I tried to go back to windows 10 and android a couple of years ago but I couldn’t... the fact that the devices don’t integrate and synchronize liKe Apple devices made me keep using Apple. Cheers
 
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Don’t know a single person that uses WhatsApp. But then again, I always hear everyone but the America uses it. And I’m American so I guess that makes sense.
 
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I have two iPhones but could not share my profile picture in the second since it says same iCloud id!

But I use NON-iCloud ID (live email ID) for one iPhone and iCloud (me.com basically) ID in the other! Yet, my main iCloud account for both mobile has to be same(NON iCloud ID I.e. LIVE email ID) so that I can share App purchases!

Not sure how to get this addressed!
 
tooloud10 said:
but that almost sounds unbelievable for a modern messaging app.
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You know why? Because it's not true.
What is true though:
Most people have more than 1-2 friends. Chances someone uses Android are pretty high. Unbelievable for a modern messaging app is that it is not cross platform.
Also iMessage's features compared to WhatsApp and especially Telegram are a joke. There's no reason to use iMessage.
 
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Please, pretty please, add the ability to respond to a specific message within a conversation, creating a thread. That would make Messages the heavyweight champion.
 
It does lack some features but I think they should improve reliability first and foremost. That and make it cross platform.
 
Can they please test a better way to record and listen to audio messages?! That’s probably the most painful feature in iOS right now.
 
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Other features in development include typing indicators in group chats, as already exists in one-on-one iMessage conversations; the ability to mark the last message of a conversation as unread after opening it; and an expansion of the "/me" command for sharing status updates, a feature that has been available on the Mac since the iChat days.
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These would be great, but it's little too late. Unless Apple makes iMessage available on Android, I'll continue to have Telegram or WhatsApp. Telegram has had plenty of these features already a long time ago.
 
oldmacs said:
Why apple hasn't managed to bring messages in MacOS into line with iOS is beyond me....
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Absolutely, two things missing from the iOS version that I find particularly annoying:
Not being able to easily add a photo from the Photos Library while composing a Message (unless I'm missing something).
The absurd little window for sharing to a message (instead of opening a new message like iOS):

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