iMessage and Message List

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

I've been having this problem for a long time, even on my previous iPhone 14 Pro Max.

Here in Brazil we don't use iMessage much. The majority use here is with WhatsApp.

But with friends and close relatives, I usually exchange messages through iMessage.

With my wife, I exchange messages only through iMessage. So, when I enter the app, instead of it always being inside my wife's message, it automatically returns to the message list. I believe this could be happening due to excessive RAM use and the operating system closes the iMessage app to free up space in RAM, but this occurs shortly after I change apps or mess with social networks, for example. When I go back to iMessage, it opens inside my wife's message, but soon it automatically returns to the message list, which I don't want to happen.

Does that happen to you too?

 

[FreakinEurekan]

I've noticed the same behavior. I don't think it's RAM-related though; you can force-close the Messages app & immediately re-open and it'll still be on the same thread. But after "some period of time" it'll return to the message list.

There is no setting to tell it to behave one way or the other, so if you want the ability to set that - apple.com/feedback

 

[BR4DOKYBrazil]

I've noticed the same behavior. I don't think it's RAM-related though; you can force-close the Messages app & immediately re-open and it'll still be on the same thread. But after "some period of time" it'll return to the message list.

There is no setting to tell it to behave one way or the other, so if you want the ability to set that - apple.com/feedback

It's a strange problem and, I believe, it's been happening since iOS16. I will send the complaint to Apple.

 

[ManuCH]

I noticed the same. That's probably just how Apple wants it to behave. It would be nice to have a choice. By all means, send feedback to Apple!

 

[FreakinEurekan]

It's a strange problem and, I believe, it's been happening since iOS16. I will send the complaint to Apple.

I expect it goes back a lot longer than that, and that it's "Behaving as Designed" - the design just isn't shared with the user.

For most people, I expect the behavior is fine. Like I said, I've "noticed" it - but I'm not bothered by it per se. Frankly the USUAL bother is going to Messages and finding that it HASN'T happened yet, so that I have to exit the last conversation I was on to look at a different one.

What you're submitting isn't a "Complaint" as much as it is an "Enhancement request." You want Apple to implement a setting that tells Messages that after exiting the app, wait [Zero seconds, 10 seconds, 30 seconds, 5 minutes, 10 minutes, never] before returning to the message list.

You'd select "Never" from that list, I'd select "Zero seconds"