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Have you not seen Instagram, Messenger, and SnapChat? iMessage is going where it needs to go to maintain a user base. You don't have to use the "cute" features if you don't want to.
 
Hi does anyone feel like iMessage is becoming more childish in its features?
Seems like that's been covered fairly well in many discussions about this back in the early iOS 10 days.
 
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