The fact that Apple assumes all users have no ability to precisely tap their screen where they want the cursor to be is insane to me. Just let me put my cursor where I want it, not at the end of a word or wherever else they randomly feel it should be. I tapped a location, put my cursor there.
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iOS 26 Finally Fixes This Annoying Messages Problem
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The fact that Apple assumes all users have no ability to precisely tap their screen where they want the cursor to be is insane to me. Just let me put my cursor where I want it, not at the end of a word or wherever else they randomly feel it should be. I tapped a location, put my cursor there.
If Steve Jobs was alive it would be fixed by now, guaranteed. Steve wouldn’t stand for such software usability problems. Heads would roll. Scott Forstall would get this fixed.
Tim isn’t a product guy, it’s something you’re born with or you are not. Apple needs a new product-focused CEO in my opinion. Messages with Apple Money sending transactions to fund the app should be cross-platform for simplified, robust and secure money sending and messaging to anyone out-of-the-box.
Still no large iMac after all these years. Entire lineup of products is needlessly complex. Apple shouldn’t be making movies (I don’t care how many awards they get) and should have a turn-key mesh network product that’s the best on the market. MBA is much faster with Apple chips, but had better port variety ten years ago and was a better machine for it.
Apple should pause their software development across the board and fix what they have until it works very well, and they should streamline their hardware lineup and perfect those they keep around:
iPhone (thinner), iPhone Ultra (fatter)
Simplify Camera Control as Camera Button with three features: one press from anywhere, snap, one hold from anywhere, record. Half-press from anywhere, Peek View, see through the camera without yet deciding to enter the app or take a snap.
Apple Fold (5.5”), Apple Fold Ultra (6.6”)
iPad mini, iPad, iPad Pro (SD Card)
MBA (port variety), MBP (port count)
iMac, iMac Pro (display, ports, thick, 16TB)
Mac mini
Mac Pro (no Studio, smaller Pro, 128TB)
Apple Keyboard Pro (wired with selection of ports), Apple Mouse Pro (ergonomic, buttons, wired). Magic Trackpad Pro (wired, shortcut buttons). Come with a dual adapter for connecting two into one port on your Mac in a sleek manner. Apple’s new professional lineup of desktop peripherals designed for getting work done, zero latency, no need to charge, convenient features.
Apple Mesh (home Wi-Fi simplified)
Apple Display, Apple Display Pro
Software and hardware move to a two-year update schedule to allow more time to get things just right, tick-tocking between software and hardware years. An added bonus being both hardware and software updates can be a bit more of an uptick. Couple of additional hardware colours added in gap years. In hardware year hardware moves to a more predictable update schedule similar to how software is now, with certain parts of the year as predictable launch times for certain groups of products.
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Didn't they introduce this problem much more recently than that? Like 2016 or so?
I could swear before tapbacks text selection worked as expected.
to add pinned emojis...iCloud is the worst part of Apple indeed. There are so many problems with notification/synchronisation part of cloud services:
Mail notification (read/deleted messages) is broken since iOS13 (_partially_ fixed now),
Safari bookmarks synchronisation (turning on/off synchronization every now and then to have same Favorites),
Messages reading messages from iCloud after reinstallation forever,
and many other problems.
To make it even more annoying, no 3pty app I use has ANY problems with synchronization/notifications, only those delivered by Apple using iCloud for synchronization/notifications. I hate it.
I bet they are undergoing serious cultural war within before deciding on whether to treat users like users or just dumb people, for example finally pulling the trigger to implement selection feature in message app.
This is one of those "why the hell did it take this long" kind of things. You also can't select text in Google Messages so it's not just Apple either.
Agreed. I blame the apple inteligence feature which my phone doesnt support or have. BUT Im saying ever since ios 18 my icloud storage has doubled for no reason whatsoever. Its gotten better a little over time but its not perfect or fixed. I was just reading where they brought back a ai feature that was taken away in 18.3 about notifications summary. I wonder if them taking it away i wonder if it caused texts that you manually delete and from recently deleted I wonder if it caused it to not delete on the server end? Im just thinking out loud. Either way they should fix these issues. BUT they wont I bet
Am I the only one who would love to see a 2-column pop-up menu?? Maybe not for everything, but it would be so useful (and space-saving) to have related things like " < reply | forward >" on the same line, as well as " [] Copy | Select {]". Might be more efficient enough to get rid of the mostly useless "More..." option which is basically just forward, and replace it with "Translate" which would be super handy. (I know there's even larger/fully integrated translation features coming in Messages, but sometimes a quick one-off is handy.)
Yes, the "Copy" function appears to be the same as before, and copies the whole contents of the text bubble...
Does it? How do you do that? I only get the Copy option when long-touching any message, always been that way from my experience!
Long tap a message to bring up the context menu, then tap and hold anywhere in that message to activate the text selector.
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I was muttering nasty words at this problem just yesterday. I'm glad some of you have listed some of the many frustrations.
Another I have is the difference between Messages for iOS and macOS. The iOS version has an Arrow button to send and a Return button for Carriage Return, New Line (CRLF). The older macOS implementation doesn't have the Arrow. Instead Send is implemented with opt-return.
I hope this all gets fixed in the 26 versions of the operating systems. Can you imagine Steve Jobs's reaction to seeing these annoyances.
Another I have is the difference between Messages for iOS and macOS. The iOS version has an Arrow button to send and a Return button for Carriage Return, New Line (CRLF). The older macOS implementation doesn't have the Arrow. Instead Send is implemented with opt-return.
I hope this all gets fixed in the 26 versions of the operating systems. Can you imagine Steve Jobs's reaction to seeing these annoyances.