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Message Icon in Photos App
Just got the Iphone 16 Pro, with IOS 18. Does anyone know why my photos within the photo app do not have the imessage icon anymore? When my friends would share photos, i could later go into my photos app, and see them there with the imessage icon in the bottom left, allowing me to save. Did...- jpkauffman
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- Forum: iOS 18
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Contact card for a couple: is there a secret to know which member of the couple just sent the text?
Frustrating for years: you have many friends who live at single address and it is useful to have the same contact have multiple phone numbers from which text messages can be sent. It is smart to have a single contact with a single address with likely other shared characteristics. The classic...- elasticmedia
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- Forum: iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting
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What are defaults in Settings->Messages->Send & Receive? (Or your settings...) Start/Receive-Reply: Phone number with or without email?
Hi, Had to reset Network Settings and a couple of others due to what turned into a non-trivial carrier change. (iOS 17.4.1) Checking through things, noticed iMessage wasn't working. Went to Settings->Messages->Send & Receive, and the phone number was unchecked. Checked it and works now - but the...- danev375
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- Forum: iPhone Tips, Help and Troubleshooting
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iPhone iMessage on Android
To comply with the DOJ lawsuit, Apple should make an iMessage app for Android and sell it for $10.- thewill586
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- Forum: iOS Apps and Apple Arcade
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Consistent iMessage issues across years of updates.
I experience a number of issues with iMessages in both iOS and iPadOS. 1. deleting attachments is an absolute chore!! Every tIke I try to scroll back to select extra images to be deleted, it randomly opens the image instead of selecting it, which undoes anytime I had selected before, so I have... -
iPhone Why does Sonoma iMessage fail when replying to a group?
19,1 iMac, Sonoma 14.2, Sonoma Mail App & iOS 17.2.1 Mail app: I belong to a group of my contacts. They sent me an iMessage post. I tried to reply to the group: FAILURE. It is possible that I may not have all the group in my contacts if that makes a difference. I deleted images sent in the group...- blackxacto
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- Forum: iOS Apps and Apple Arcade
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iMessage Issues in iOS 17.0.2: Syncing, Pictures missing, History not loading, iMessage text threads not fully loading, iMessage search not working
iPhone 15 Pro. 512GB (89GB in use so far) 2TB iCloud plan. Hey Apple, don't tell me it is a storage issue iOS 17.0.2 iMessage does not sync and load with iCloud. Photos do not load in the iMessage photo gallery, there are no links and there are no documents previously shared with contacts. I... -
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Sounds in iMessage app
Ever since I downloaded 17 I’ve lost the text tone and vibration pattern when I get a text in iMessages. I’ve gone through several help pages and all sounds and settings are turned on correctly. Haven’t done beta 5 yet so maybe that will fix? Anyone else? Thoughts? -
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GPS coordinates of photos received by Messages on Mac
Is it possible to extract GPS coordinates from photos received by Messages on a Mac? I see some contradictory statements online. So far, I'm not able to see any way to do it. I understand the privacy concern - is location always stripped by Messages for that reason? Can it be overridden by... -
Can't send opt-out text messages ?!
Hi all! My iPhone 14 pro (latest iOS) cannot seem to send opt-out text messages - often very short phone numbers. It just 'fails to send'. It does not work on my Mac either. I have no problem with sending anything else, either text or iMessage. But for some reason I cannot send opt-out...- apple fan23
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- Forum: iOS 16
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iMessage pictures not saving to info section photo gallery of iMessage iOS 16.0.3
iPhone 14 Pro 512GB with 300GB available and Apple One Premier 2TB iCloud storage plan (1.6TB available) Installed iOS 16.0.3 ios 16.0.3. Apple fix this! I got a new iPhone 14 pro and transferred from iPhone 13 pro. At first there were no pictures in the information section AND new... -
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Messages turns green until app restart?
Sometimes, for seemingly no reason at all, messages seems to stop working as iMessages and defaults to SMS. I'll find that conversations that were previously blue iMessages have all turned green, and I only have the ability to send as SMS (green) until I force close and restart the Messages app... -
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iPhone 12 Attachments in iMessage
I will be visiting a foreign country next week, and my cell carrier says I have unlimited texting, but that any attachments sent (or received) via iMessage will count against my 5GB foreign data allowance. Say someone sends me a text containing an attachment, and at that time I'm not on WiFi... -
iMessage conversations, scrolling
With iOS 15, has anyone noticed that when you receive a reply from someone via iMessage, and open the message, you have to scroll up, to see the message/response? Almost as if the view is saved from the last time you were in that message/conversation. That was not the case on iOS 14+, it would...- ivanwi11iams
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- conversations scrolling
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- Forum: iOS 15
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How do I easily export entire iMessage thread to PDF on MacBook Pro without manually scrolling back?
I know how to export to PDF the most recent messages by tediously scrolling back the iMessages thread from my friend on my MacBook Pro then printing them to PDF. BUT HERE IS THE PROBLEM: scrolling back goes slower and slower and I can only go back about a year before iMessages app crashes...- remoteportal
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- export to pdf
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- Forum: macOS
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Major iMessage issues
So yesterday my iMessage starting crashing just trying to open the program. Also, my wife, mother in law, and 2 brother in laws all had the same issue. Thats 5 people in three different households that all lost iMessages. So... we signed out of our accounts and resigned in our cloud settings and... -
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imessage shuffling out of order
Hello all! I am sorry if this is a bit confusing to follow but recently I have been having issues with my imessages. my imessages will randomly shuffle out of order to where all of the sent (blue) messages are moved to the bottom of the thread and all of the received (grey) messages are moved...- Juju2785
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iPad How can I receive a text to both Ipad and Android phone from someone with Apple iphone, Ipad, Macbook?
How can I receive a text to both Ipad and Android phone from someone with Apple iphone, Ipad, Macbook? I don not have an Iphone. I currently have just an Android phone. People can of course text me from an Iphone or any other phone. I am getting an IPAD soon: My family members want to... -
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iPhone Force send SMS to user on iMessage?
Seems force to send SMS to someone who's on iMessage is no longer possible... Any ideas?- W2u7Yw4HaD
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- Forum: iOS 12
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iMessage screen not showing type box.
When I open a message from a notification while I am in another app, the image app doesn't fit properly on my screen or hides sections, most often the latest text or it hides the type box. Anyone had this issue? iPhone 6 running iOS 12.0- Scalpelpro
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- Forum: iOS 12