The text effects works sometimes for me, in some conversations they work just fine, and in others it shows the action in text.
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How to Use Messages' Tapback, Screen Effects and Bubble Effects in iOS 10
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I totally agree, I like reduced motion because it makes the transitions quicker and the app icons moving with the motion isn't worth it, would rather save the little but of battery it uses.
It was not working for me either and it was driving me crazy. So I took the advice of others and turned my iMessage "Off" and then back "On" and it started working. Hope that helps
Have her sign out of iMessage in the settings and sign back in. I had to do the same to get it to work!
I have a pesky Microphone icon where the arrow should be, and for the life of me can't figure out how to get rid of it. Any tips?
Tim
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Nevermind... As soon as you start typing it changes to the arrow. Silly me!
Tim
Tim
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Nevermind... As soon as you start typing it changes to the arrow. Silly me!
Tim
I'm looking for a similar answer; if there isn't the option to opt in (or out) of receiving effects either globally or by effect or by "conversation"; I'm not inclined to install ios10.
None of the screen effects come through for me when receiving on a Mac running Sierra (replaced with text description).
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Make sure Reduce Motion is disabled, otherwise it won't give you the option.
Good God Apple needs to let Reduce Motion be a switch selector menu. Out of everything in iOS that you can't customize, this one irritates me the most. Fix it Apple!
The rich link previews don't seem to be working properly for me. When I send a message with a link, the preview works fine and shows up in the sent message. But, the preview doesn't show up when I receive a text, just something like "money.cnn.com" followed by a Safari icon. I sent several texts of different links to myself and that's what happened every time. Am I missing something?
This is what worked for me. After I toggled iMessage off then on, everything was fixed.
I'm having trouble using force touch on my 7 plus Press on the blue arrow next to the chat box to bring up the Bubble Effect and Screen Effect menu... it does nothing even if I press really hard, I've adjusted force touch intensity on various levels and nothing.
Have you checked to make sure your reduce motion setting is disabled?
"Settings > General > Accessibility and switch on the 'Reduce Motion' option. " only works SOME of the time and at other times, it's back. I have appealed to Apple to put out an update allowing people to SHUT IT OFF versus a 'work around' that *should* work. Effects and expressions is not appropriate for work phones and it will be things like this that edge the market share downward for apple as buying decisions become based on things like this. I have already had to explain to a co-worker that I wasn't trying to be funny when my text message included "sent with gentle effect" because she had an older IOS that didn't know how to interpret the 'effect' so added the text with my message - I couldn't believe it and this has become so frustrating. HELP APPLE...
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seemed fixed but if like mine, the problem came right back. I loathe this latest update with 'effects'.
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ABSOLUTELY RIGHT. I used to buy them for work phones but no more. Wish I'd seen this IOS 'update' coming.
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DO NOT install the latest IOS unless you want to trade your beloved functional phone for a kiddy op-sys with all the bells and whistles your kids might enjoy. Apple should be ashamed of themselves for releasing something like this.