Funny, I don't think I have a single close friend or family member that DOESN'T use iMessage as their primary messaging platform. Lol
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iOS 14: Everything New in Messages
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Funny, I don't think I have a single close friend or family member that DOESN'T use iMessage as their primary messaging platform. Lol
I must be one of the few who wishes for MARK AS UNREAD. Home with two preschool-aged kids during a pandemic hasn't really allowed me to respond to read messages right away.
Did they fix the years lasting bug that doesn’t allow you to send a voice message because the screen goes on standby and if you touch the screen to wake it again the recording stops?
HOW ON EARTH DID THEY STILL MANAGE TO EXCLUDE MARKING MESSAGES UNREAD? HOW HARD CAN THAT POSSIBLY BE?!?! Lol. This is driving me crazy.
No, still the best.
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Results speak for themselves with Tim, the best CEO in the world. Deny it all you want. The truth is in front of you and the data proves it, convincingly.
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No it doesn't.
Yeah, seems bizarre that they never thought this would be a valuable feature. I mark emails as unread all the time so that they don't slip through the cracks when I'm too busy to respond immediately - why can't we do the same for messages after all these years?!?!
Ok, good. Just pretty useless outside of USA where most people uses WhatsApp or Telegram. In some countries iMessages are even charged. How about making the Fonts in the emails actually readable as several iOS versions ago?. 3 or 4 iOS versions ago the fonts in emails auto scaled, now you have to manually pinch and move the screen around to read emails from most, even Amazon. All email clients I have tried really on the same rendered for Apple. In Android the email actually works. This is and not TouchId are my only real gripes with my IPhone. Well, also the crazy unconfortable form factor of the Max size, but ok. I guess Tim never reads emails in his IPhone or just does not see any real Usage opportunity area.
This is what the original person asking wants to happen: Person A sends a message to Person B. Person A realizes they sent the message to the wrong person, so they delete the message on their own thread WHICH ALSO deletes it from the recipient’s thread (leaving the words ‘Deleted Message’ in its place.
This scenario is currently possible in What’s App. Doing this on iOS Messages merely deletes it from your own thread on your own phone, but does nothing with the recipient’s thread.
Not sure how iMessages can be charged as they are just data like that from any other messenger or basically any app. Ultimately people use whatever they need based on what others use that they contact. These days it doesn't really matter much one way or another.
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It's not really something that has been associated with text messaging, just like deleting messages isn't really associated with regular text messaging. With iMessage built into the Messages app to work seamlessly with regular text messaging it's quite likely that has had influence on these type of features. That said, with features expanding for iMessages in particular it's all something that Apple should be able to add in.
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indeed and it’s been continuously improved beyond bug fixes.
with all these new features, along with MacOS being on par ... what’s going to happen to messages on Apple Watch?!
navigation of group chats and not syncing deletes to/from is going to be an absolute nightmare.
not to mention Announce with Siri via headphones as well. How’s that going to work?
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this is apparently coming to iOS iMessage this year
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take not that regular sms protocol does not allow deletion of a message once it’s delivered to the base station within the mobile carriers network. Thee WatchOS a new standard I beloved supported with Android 10 and carriers soon that may allow for sms to be deleted.
Memojis are disgusting.
"Messages" are good from privacy POI (at least I hope they are), but still so underfeatured, comparing even with sh*ty WhatsApp, not to mention Telegram. All of these "new features" were new many years ago for the rest of the world.
"Messages" are good from privacy POI (at least I hope they are), but still so underfeatured, comparing even with sh*ty WhatsApp, not to mention Telegram. All of these "new features" were new many years ago for the rest of the world.
One and only feature that would make it greatest would be crossplatform compatibility that Steve Jobs planned for FaceTime in past.
It would make all those great features really welcome. Otherwise those 2 people who have iMessage as well that I message often gives no reason to thrill.
I know, some features are not iMessage limited.
It used to only filter iMessages, now it filters both SMS & iMessage. If the number is not in your contact and if you did not reply to the chat, it should show up in Unknown Senders.
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You can block the number in the info view.
Unknown Senders used to only filter iMessages, now it filters both SMS & iMessage. If the number is not in your contact and if you did not reply to the chat, it should show up in Unknown Senders.
I've seen several articles from late June that say the SMS filtering is only available in India. Can anyone confirm this? I've been getting twice daily spam messages for marjiuana gummies and hope this feature will be available in the U.S.!
Having played with it it seems like the filtering is working and it's good that it now includes regular text messages and not just iMessages like before. However, it seems like the filtering doesn't affect notifications, or at least I'm still seeing them, which kind of defeats part of the usefulness of such filtering as you are still interrupted and bothered by these messages. I was under the impression that the notifications would be suppressed when this filtering is enabled, but seems like that's might not be the case (unless I overlooked something or perhaps there's a bug somewhere).
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iOS 14 (given that this thread is about new Messages features in iOS 14). The filtering available in Messages prior to iOS 14 only applies to iMessages.
Your last point about the seamless integration with SMS/MMS is well made, and is somewhat an Achilles heel in Messages in the context of the modern instant messaging landscape. In particular, the “Send as SMS” function is likely to make it even more complicated for Apple to implement these “advanced” iMessage-only features. Perhaps they should only be activated when a user has “Send as SMS” turned off?
Echoing a previous commenter, I really do wonder whether Apple developers actually use their own products in the real world; how often they test competitors’ products; and how much of the development is not US-centric. All of these “new” features are very late coming to iMessage compared to most other instant messaging services. And Apple’s choice to ship iOS with “Send as SMS” switched on by default here in the UK is a liability, where charging to send multimedia works completely differently.