That’s stupid. Might as well not edit it at all. It’s like the silly message in outlook „the sender would like to take back the message you just read“
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Edited iMessages in iOS 16 Now Display Original Text, Undo Send Limited to Two Minutes
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Just get rid of the feature. It’s pointless if the original message is retained as this would be used mostly for typos.
Before anyone pops off about abusers, you can’t shield everyone from everything. Just saying, that’s how life is. 95% of people would use this for typos yet the remaining 5% of nasty people have to ruin it for others. Honestly, they should just scrap it. I’m not embarrassed if I spell something wrong and I’m used to *corrections.
Before anyone pops off about abusers, you can’t shield everyone from everything. Just saying, that’s how life is. 95% of people would use this for typos yet the remaining 5% of nasty people have to ruin it for others. Honestly, they should just scrap it. I’m not embarrassed if I spell something wrong and I’m used to *corrections.
Then delete the entire idea/feature. What’s the point.
I can just send another text as I do now to correct something I typed before. Haha
As someone who types quickly...editing was useful for the occasional typo (the kind that drive my OCD crazy 😂). Never had a use to delete a message after sending, so that wasn't something I see myself using.
With this change...I guess I might as well go back to fixing typos in a new message with an *. The original is going to be visible anyway, so that basically defeated it's only purpose that I'd be using it for.
With this change...I guess I might as well go back to fixing typos in a new message with an *. The original is going to be visible anyway, so that basically defeated it's only purpose that I'd be using it for.
If I text you and say "don't go to school tomorrow I am shooting it up" and then I edit it to say "Hi". It is hard to go to the police with a threat when all you have is a message that says "Hi".
As with everything in life we have to reduce the nice things we can have by how the stupid and horrible people will use them.
Soo... I don't get it. What is the point of this feature then? I keep seeing people saying "to fix typos" but how are you fixing them if the original typo is still viewable? How does that change literally anything?
Think of abusive partners/coworkers/parents.
If they send something real nasty/damaging/concerning/explicit/anything else horrible, then edit it a minute later to remove any evidence, that’s not ok.
Now they can’t, and if they want to unsend they’ve got less time to do it
Pointless? The point of editing isn't to hide what you wrote. It's to add on to or amend/fix the message. These changes don't stop that. The only people who should care about this change are people who are trying to hide what they initially said. Since people on iOS 15 can't see edits anyway this was never truly hidden.
It's only viewable if you click to see it, it's not there the whole time.
nah this will work well for its intended purpose
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They should allow edits up until the person replies, then no more. I also think being able to see edit history defeats the purpose.
Seriously people? The value is obvious. The unedited messages are visible only if the user bothers to click through to view them. Otherwise, this is an easy and straightforward way to fix/clarify accidental typos, errors, and confusions.
This design change means that this useful feature can’t trivially be abused in bad faith to cause confusion, doubt, and harm. If this bothers you, maybe it’s worth examining your ethical foundations? 🙄
This design change means that this useful feature can’t trivially be abused in bad faith to cause confusion, doubt, and harm. If this bothers you, maybe it’s worth examining your ethical foundations? 🙄
Sometimes Siri will auto correct too much or if using dictation. It’s definitely needed.
But for one little misspell. I’ll just send another text.
I get what you're saying (and I DO agree), but the implementation of doing it this way...is no different than sending the correction with (or without) an *. If the original is going to be there anyway, the edit feature really doesn't serve a purpose. They could remove the edit feature entirely and it really wouldn't change anything in terms of how amending/fixing works.
Many other messaging apps have these features without time limits. It’s too bad a few paranoid people are killing the usefulness of this feature for everyone else.
I would like to see the ability to print texts to PDF's again on my MAC without any redaction of the text. I have legal reasons to retain my texts and the PDF was a great way on the MAC to do that via iMessenger. You can screen shot it, you can save photos to camera rolls, what's the point in making the print to PDF so useless.
But it is different. The edit history is hidden until the recipient specifically taps on it to view. Unlike a separate unhideable new message with a *. Less clutter.
I would guess it's to allow the option to clarify a message; ensuring typos, a hastily chosen word, or any other aspect of the original text doesn't get in the way of the intended meaning.
"On second thought, that doesn't seem very clear - I'll edit the message to make sure they understand my message."