You Can Edit or Unsend an iMessage Up to 15 Minutes After Sending in iOS 16

[subjonas]

Apple warns that people running earlier versions of iOS are able to see messages that have been unsent, even if it is no longer visible on your end.

Is this warning shown every time you edit/unsend or only when the person you’re messaging has an older iOS? If it’s only when the person has an older iOS, then there is no point to edit/unsend and may even cause confusion later, so there should be no warning, and the option should just be greyed out instead.

There's also a new option to recover recently deleted messages, and deleted messages can be recovered for up to 30 days after deleting them. Deleted messages are located in the Recently Deleted section under the Filters list. Recently deleted works for both iMessage and SMS messages.

Does recovering deleted messages include recovering unsent messages? And what is this Filters list? Is that already in iOS 15? I’m still on iOS 14.

What is this translate feature in the image? Has that been there since iOS 15?

 

[subjonas]

But do people still see the original message in their notification? Unless the notification gets edited too, I don’t see a big benefit to edit or unsend. Just do the *correction follow up message. Or unless it’s a long message and the part you want to edit gets cut off in the notification.

 

[subjonas]

Apple should also add a temporary message feature for things like passwords or financial info. It should auto delete from every device after say 15 minutes from read.

 

[_Spinn_]

Apple should also add a temporary message feature for things like passwords or financial info. It should auto delete from every device after say 15 minutes from read.

This could definitely be useful.

 

[_Spinn_]

Looks like Apple is fixing Tapbacks in SMS conversations (like Google did awhile ago).

iOS 16 fixes annoying reaction texts in “green bubble” message groups

Apple is hiding annoying SMS Tapback reactions in iOS 16.

www.theverge.com

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/imessage-reactions-will-no-longer-annoy-android-users-thanks-to-emoji-change.2324505/

 

[iPhoneFan5349]

Fair point, on the other hand if you bundle updates of smaller nature together it’s likely easier for the customers to see the value and enhance adoption. If they’d continue to release app updates individually all the time, knowledge retention would probably suffer and we’d all be complaining about these constant updates.

So you’ll rather wait until September for app updates?

 

[ericwn]

So you’ll rather wait until September for app updates?

I am in no rush personally, but my post was intended to provide the perspective of the maker of the product rather than the I-want-everything-now view of the enthusiast who likely fiddles around with the beta soon enough.

 

[Howyalikdemapls]

Good for typos and adding to a text but if a message is read......you can't take that back

It would be nice if it shows you that it’s been edited and gives you the ability to see what it used to be by long pressing or something like that.

 

[Howyalikdemapls]

I’m trying to picture how this is more than just a gimmick to some extent. If the recipient reads the iMessage, and is aware it can be deleted then they will take a screenshot if they want to keep it. I also ambivalent about why if you send me something and I receive it you having the power to take it back once it has arrived on —MY phone- I wouldn’t mind getting a notification saying “Bob wants to retract the embarrassing iMessage he sent: allow or disallow?”

Correcting typos, retracting a question that you figured out the answer to, removing a message that was intended for someone else. Everyone makes mistakes sometimes. It’s cleaner to fix the original message than respond with an addendum correcting the typo, clarifying the message, saying “nm” and explaining the goof, etc.

 

[kc9hzn]

It would be nice if it shows you that it’s been edited and gives you the ability to see what it used to be by long pressing or something like that.

I’d argue that that may defeat half the purpose for a feature like this. If the goal is to avoid an embarrassing typo or an accidental embarrassing message sent to the wrong thread (say, sweet nothings to your significant other accidentally being sent to your work colleagues), including the information that it was edited or deleted might raise more eyebrows and questions than just silently editing or removing it before people see it.

 

[Fofer]

It would be nice if it shows you that it’s been edited and gives you the ability to see what it used to be by long pressing or something like that.

Yes, the screenshots during the WWDC presentation showed an "edited" label:

But I haven't read any confirmation about whether or not the edit history is accessible, like you describe. I agree that would be ideal. Can anyone running the Developer Beta confirm for us?

 

[turbineseaplane]

If you only can edit within 15 minutes, is it really necessary to show that it was edited?

 

[kc9hzn]

If you only can edit within 15 minutes, is it really necessary to show that it was edited?

Especially if it can’t be edited after people have read the message (which has been suggested in this thread but not confirmed by anyone with the developer preview).

 

[srbNYC]

Since it only works with someone else who has iOS 16, it is a little hard to test right now

 

[srbNYC]

Update: I've now tried it with a friend who also has ios16. Conclusion: It will be a jackpot for therapists, because seeing "[ex-lover's name] unsent a message." will drive people absolutely insane.

 

[ericwn]

Update: I've now tried it with a friend who also has ios16. Conclusion: It will be a jackpot for therapists, because seeing "[ex-lover's name] unsent a message." will drive people absolutely insane.

If I compare this to the day to day silliness that users go through right now where autocorrect suggests a wrong word that gets send or when someone sends to a wrong recipient, I’d bet your scenario of the ex sending something and then deleting it within the 15 minute window is the lesser problem.

 

[chrischillzz]

iOS 16 adds a long-awaited feature set allowing you to edit and unsend iMessages that you've sent to someone, but as it turns out, there is a time limitation.

You can edit or unsend an iMessage up to 15 minutes after it's been sent, but after that, it is uneditable and can no longer be unsent.

Unsending an iMessage or editing an iMessage requires both Messages users to be running iOS 16. If you try unsending an iMessage to someone running iOS 15 or earlier, it does not work, nor does the editing feature.

Apple warns that people running earlier versions of iOS are able to see messages that have been unsent, even if it is no longer visible on your end.

You can edit or undo an iMessage by long pressing on it in an iMessage conversation and tapping on either "Edit" or "Undo Send." Note that these features are limited to blue bubble iMessages and do not work with green SMS messages.

There's also a new option to recover recently deleted messages, and deleted messages can be recovered for up to 30 days after deleting them. Deleted messages are located in the Recently Deleted section under the Filters list. Recently deleted works for both iMessage and SMS messages.

In addition to these two features, there is a "Mark as Unread" option for when you want to respond to a message at a later time but don't want to forget, and all of your unread messages can be seen in the new "Unread Messages" folder under Filters.

Article Link: You Can Edit or Unsend an iMessage Up to 15 Minutes After Sending in iOS 16

I’m curious as I just ran into this situation.
What if you started editing your message (just before the 15minute timer ended) but by time you sent the new edited message, the 15minute timer had been over for a couple minutes? I’m not sure if it went through full because on the screen with all my texts to people it shows the fully edited version but when I go to that person’s messages, it doesn’t show the edited version BUT it does say “edited” underneath like it would if it had been lol

I just want to know if the edit went through fully or not 😂