Having a choice would be nice, but Apple Translate does not universally suck. It really depends on the context. I use both Google Translate & Apple Translate, as sometimes one works better than the other.
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iOS 26 Messages App Rumored to Get Polls and Automatic Translate Feature
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I’m sure any scammer worth their salt already has this sorted.
In the Anglosphere India and Nigeria seem to be the epicentres and English is widely spoken anyway.
Really?
I've got a huge bee in my bonnet about Markdown. I've worked as a writer for decades in both journalistic and corporate copy writer environments. I've used the major content management systems daily. Do you know how many times I've encountered Markdown?
Zero times.
If I asked any of my colleagues about Markdown, none of them would know what it is. They'd assume maybe it's some unusual extension of HTML or XML.
Yet it's baked into nearly every Mac app that involves working with words, in an almost cult-like way. There are people who will reply to this with anger and hate that I'm questioning it here. That's how strong a grip it has.
It actually puts me off apps if they build their user experience around Markdown.
OK, it supposedly makes it easier to stay in the flow. But I use a Mac because of its elegant user interface. I don't want to find ways to avoid using my Mac and staying at the keyboard/cursor interface. If I wanted that, I would use Linux.
Moving my hand to the mouse to highlight a line and switch to it to header format is not difficult. My mind isn't taken away from the work at hand. If anything, it's better to work this way because I can visualise live how the piece will look online.
Many applications to this. Interacting when traveling or just real life situations. For example : I'm greek and my wife is not. Still, she's in the WhatsApp group of the greek school we take the kids every Saturday morning, with like 20 incoming messages a week in a language she doesn't speak.
Yes I came here to give the same example, though with a different language.
For people with family from other countries this could be quite nice.
Of course not. Craig is waaaay too busy with perfecting his guitar riffs.
The Babel fish is small, yellow, and leech-like, and probably the oddest thing in the Universe.
We (I, at least) really need a very simple, yet useful feature: archive messages (NOT delete them).
This feature appeared first in Gmail 21 years ago(2004) and is now standard in almost all email services.
It's also in WhatsApp.
This feature appeared first in Gmail 21 years ago(2004) and is now standard in almost all email services.
It's also in WhatsApp.
It’s called WhatsApp and it’s what we use in Europe mostly from experience.
I am in a group chat with Spanish neighbours. The automatic translation has been the perfect feature for a while. Before that I had to hover with the S Pen over the text block and it was translated. This feature saves a lot of time.
I am talking about WhatsApp running on a Galaxy phone (other OEMs don't have it, I believe).
What sucks is that it doesn’t support many languages.
I would love to have a way to select more than one iOS language to operate in. I regularly move between French and English, and autocorrect is always a pain. Especially when writing both languages in the same document.
Translation in messages will be useful for travel.
Translation in messages will be useful for travel.
It is now possible to add up to two languages to one keyboard. I'm also French and have French + English in the same keyboard (important here: it's not the same as having several keyboards, which is also possible). Then when I type, it recognizes the language and the autocorrect works fine. Try it
North American here: I wish WhatsApp were the global messaging app (and it was then an independent non-profit company). Life would be easier.
Imagine political marketers are salivating at the polls feature.
Hope they’re specifically blocked from it.
Hope they’re specifically blocked from it.
This is the first time I hear an American say this, especially on this forum.
Over here in Europe nobody uses iMessage. Even when both parties have iPhones and you ask them to use FaceTime and iMessage they're like: "No"
Let's see if the Messages app in iOS 26 supports GSMA RCS Universal Profile 3.0 specifications. If it does (and Google Messages in Android does the same), then the messaging war between iPhone and Android will likely be over.
Nope, that''s a third party app. I want it built into iMessage so I can iMessage all uses and they receive an iMessage, not an RCS. I don't want to use a Meta app, besides the WA interface is not beautifully designed.