How is deleting texts still so insanely bad?!

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I haven't deleted individual texts for a good few years, since after iOS 7 (I think) it became insanely difficult to delete texts, where scrolling up and causing the app to load it would unselect all texts.

Anyways, I thought, surely this would be fixed by now! Apparently not. iOS 16.3.1 and it still resets all my selected texts while scrolling up. Worse yet, it seems to preload in the background, which means that even when I finished scrolling and started deleting, it could reset all my selected messages.


If that wasn't annoying enough, it also seems like every time you confirm deleting the messages, it skips to the bottom. So now I have to scroll back up all the way to start deleting more (because I can't just delete bottom up otherwise it unselects them).


Someone please tell me how this is still in this pathetic state after 9 years?!

 

[Paddle1]

My guess is that most users don't manually delete such messages one by one. They either delete the latest messages so little to no scrolling is needed, or have auto delete enabled. Or they just delete the entire conversation manually. I generally only delete spam messages.

In other words it's probably not a priority to Apple.

 

[Black Magic]

My guess is that most users don't manually delete such messages one by one. They either delete the latest messages so little to no scrolling is needed, or have auto delete enabled. Or they just delete the entire conversation manually. I generally only delete spam messages.

In other words it's probably not a priority to Apple.

I think most users behavior are in line with yours.