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Apple's iMessage to Finally Get Major Update at WWDC?

Social network? Like Ping 4.0? /smh

The last few events have had Memoji's front and center. I just chalked it up to a lack of new innovative ideas.
 
I fully expect for words and phrases to be a thing of the past. We'll strictly communicate with emojis from now on, it's been heading on this direction for some time now. "Resistance is futile, you must assimilate."
 
Not a burning issue for me, but I'm sure it's targeted at keeping people in the ecosystem. Personally what I would LOVE to see is that the geo location stuff becomes "mode aware." When I arrive at home by car, it's great to open the gates when I'm a hundred yards away. But if I'm walking, then I haven't a hope of getting to them before they close. So being able to say "When I arrive home by car" to limit it to when it detects it's in a car would be lovely.

And so would the ability to choose what shows up for HomeKit on the summary page in CarKit. I have electric gates and garage and I want the gates to show up there but no matter how hard I try, adding and deleting those items in different orders etc I can't get the gates to show up. Would be lovely if I could just have the first thing I had listed on my Home page in the Home app show up.

And lastly, proper automation support in Home so I can trigger things based on temperature ranges etc would all be great for me.

But hey, it gets a bit better every year so I'll wait and see. :)

Stay Safe!
 
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I could see Messages getting a big overhaul and code refresh. Even the one they did with Big Sur still feels a little unoptimized even on my 2.4ghz 8c MBO. Like come on. Why should this app ever lag at all on this hardware? Id love smoother transitions etc. Make it feel like iOS. And then again Ill get the apple silicon 16" which will probably close that gap better than apples optimization efforts.
 
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One thing I find interesting in the promotional photo above are the white speech bubbles. We obviously know there are no white speech bubbles on iMessage and this seems like a detail a company that like apple would not miss.

Cross platform iMessage perhaps? It has been suggested that Apple might go cross platform for anti-trust reasons

EDIT: I stand corrected, white speech bubbles are for the person you're chatting with.
 
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cmaier said:
I would hope they’d also put a lot of effort into making Facetime more of a zoom competitor.
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There are a lot of platforms for video conferencing, many way better than Zoom depending on what your needs are.

FaceTime is fine the way it is for the purpose it serves.
 
Please, improve search. I'd love to go into individual threads and search there.

I would also like to be able to remove messages kind of like signal - an option for each person type thing.
 
sully54 said:
One thing I find interesting in the promotional photo above are the white speech bubbles. We obviously know there are no white speech bubbles on iMessage and this seems like a detail a company that like apple would not miss.

Cross platform iMessage perhaps? It has been suggested that Apple might go cross platform for anti-trust reasons.
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What would even be the anti-trust issue? iMessage has lower market share than even iPhone.
 
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sully54 said:
One thing I find interesting in the promotional photo above are the white speech bubbles. We obviously know there are no white speech bubbles on iMessage and this seems like a detail a company that like apple would not miss.

Cross platform iMessage perhaps? It has been suggested that Apple might go cross platform for anti-trust reasons.
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Open your messages app and look at a conversation between you and a friend. Which color are your friend‘s message bubbles? I think this contradicts your argument.
 
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Useless outside USA, in the rest of the world, nobody uses it. Can I have a light iMessages version, only for the SMS of my bank?
 
Probably opening Messages up to Android users even though internal emails says otherwise and the perceived concerns which sounds like similar sentiment with the late Steve Jobs and the original iPod. Once iPod was opened up to WindowsOS users it made iPod take-off in popularity and as a side benefit the Mac adoption “halo-effect”.
 
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zorinlynx said:
iMessage will never truly take off as a "social network" until it's cross platform. Half of my friends use Android phones; we all use Telegram to chat because it's available on all our devices.
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Friends don't let friends use android? Seriously, I don't get it. It's a free app, it works great, Android users can already send messages, and there are apps available if you want to use them. You know the old adage, if you want to sell an app that replace a free app, it has to be better. so..., if you want a better app (I don't, not missing any feature I want), there are apps available
 
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Yeah, I don't need iMessage to do "new" things. I need it to do basic things better... Like reliably sending mixed iMessage/SMS/MMS messages to groups. :confused:
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Exactly--I don't care about full cross-platform support, I just wish they would clean up the way the phone displays mixed platform messages in the app even when iOS knows exactly which people in the group chat can use iMessage and which can only use SMS.

There's no reason that an iOS user should get an SMS group message that another iOS user has 'liked' a message. Send the message as an iMessage to iOS users and as an SMS to non-iOS users.
 
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Useless outside USA, in the rest of the world, nobody uses it. Can I have a light iMessages version, only for the SMS of my bank?
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Always find it so funny when people say nobody outside the US uses iMessage. This is complete BS. I live on Germany and me and my friends use iMessage all the time. I know a lot of people who do. It might not be the most used service but anyway.
 
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Open your messages app and look at a conversation between you and a friend. Which color are your friend‘s message bubbles? I think this contradicts your argument.
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Yeah, you're right. I stand corrected. I guess i just got excited haha
 
I want to see a delayed send option. Sometimes I want to send someone something but maybe I’m up too early and know they’re asleep. Rather than setting a reminder to myself to send the message I’d rather be able to type the message, press and hold the send button and have it pop up options to send in 15 minutes, 1 hour, 2 hours, custom.
 
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