To make iMessage really popular they need to bring it to Android, IMO. Otherwise it will remain quite limited, as iOS global market share is about what, 25%?
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Apple's iMessage to Finally Get Major Update at WWDC?
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I can't believe no one is complaining about the need to delete messages one at a time on the Mac, vs. iPhone, where you can select a whole bunch of Messages and delete them with a single click. With all the spam and marketing messages (sorry) clogging up my Messages thread every day, it's an incredible pain to methodically click on a Message, right-click and drag to select Delete, then move the mouse to the new delete window that pops up to select delete again.
Messages worked perfectly well in previous versions of the OS -- at least, you could batch-select messages for deletion, like you still can on the iPhone (and presumably on an iPad). Why they lost that functionality is beyond me...
Messages worked perfectly well in previous versions of the OS -- at least, you could batch-select messages for deletion, like you still can on the iPhone (and presumably on an iPad). Why they lost that functionality is beyond me...
Exactly what I looked for in this article and the comments ... that iMessage might finally go cross platform! As speculated here
I can't believe how Apple has let such an important app stagnate. Its missing modern features, like disappearing messages and sharable group invite links. What year is this, Apple?
Yeah the ‘Facebook’ replacements for this haven’t had IT. The reasons to go back. Somewhere between MySpace and Facebook greed took the lead. I’m cool with an iPhone photos wall to invite friends and family to view.
They don’t want to make iMessage popular - they don’t make money off it. They want to sell i-devices.
Never mind iMessage, are we ever gonna get updates to iCloud Photos? Apple could have the #1 photo-sharing service if they just put a modicum of effort into it 🙄
iChat back in the day was closer to Zoom than FaceTime is today. They had big hopes for FaceTime, but a poor execution.
Bringing iMessage to external platforms would remove a major network effect benefit that Apple currently enjoys. Like it or not, blue messages signal that you have an iPhone and that’s going to be more desirable for many people. iMessage directly drives iDevice sales.
To put a finer point on it, I have a friend who bought an iPhone for the sole purpose of keeping up with the iMessage group chat amongst our friends.
Apple wants to sell hardware. iMessage itself is a cost center.
That is risky for me, especially with work texts, although I can see the attraction.
What about the ability to prevent someone in your list from adding you into a group message circus without your approval? I would also like to have a way to completely get out of a group message.
Can they please please please update the phone app. It’s so antiquated, and it still takes FOUR taps to listen to a voicemail from the app. And the UI is possibly the worst from Apple.
I'd love to see a way to sort certain messages into subfolders. When I open Messages, I'd like to just see messages from friends and family not all the automated messages. Those could go elsewhere.
You can pin your preferred / frequent contacts to the top of the screen by swiping right per thread. All others go below.
If they do that, then Zoom will call it anticompetitive to be because it’s built into the system
I live in a country where whatsapp has been the app that fully replaced MSM, and have been using it for a decade as my main messaging app.
About a month ago I convinced my best friend who's an iphone user to switch our conversations to iMessage.
I've found tons of issues and bugs that don't happen on whatsapp and I could write a very long list of things I can do on whastapp that I can't on iMessage.
But my main gripe is with voice messages. If im wearing aipods, the voice message won't record, and if i rotate the phone the app it will stop recording and freeze. I have to kill and open the app again to continue.
I was really surprised at how buggy it is.
About a month ago I convinced my best friend who's an iphone user to switch our conversations to iMessage.
I've found tons of issues and bugs that don't happen on whatsapp and I could write a very long list of things I can do on whastapp that I can't on iMessage.
But my main gripe is with voice messages. If im wearing aipods, the voice message won't record, and if i rotate the phone the app it will stop recording and freeze. I have to kill and open the app again to continue.
I was really surprised at how buggy it is.
Thanks. I should have said that I'm doing that already, but then it changes the whole Messages UI. I'd prefer to see a list with my preferred people at the top instead of huge icons eating up screen space.
iMessage Plus Arcade coming your way. $4.99 a month. Bet
AMEN! I recently had to review a large number of older voicemails on my phone and transfer quite a few to my computer, and it's a near-disaster in terms of UI.
Both Messages and voicemail need to be on the iCloud interface so we can use a computer for things as well.
so? who cares what zoom calls it?
Creating a competitor is the opposite of anti-competitive. Anti-competitive would be zoom saying nobody could compete with it.
Hope they include the ability to export chats and save as plain text files. They need this ability in Notes, too.
They should also beef up FaceTime’s capabilities to include a chat and share screen feature
They should also beef up FaceTime’s capabilities to include a chat and share screen feature
iMessage is turning into bloatware. I have an old iPhone that runs iOS 9 and iMessage on that OS is so much nicer and simpler to use. I prefer it leaps & bounds over what it has currently morphed into. iOS 15 looks like it's going to pile on even more fat