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... Quasselstripper's bar chart ... I am somewhat curious as to where he sourced the underlying data. ...
Just an aside... while diving down that rabbit hole for a bit, I happened upon another interesting visualization of the various beta releases: ThinkyBits iOS Version History Chart

My 1000th message in this thread will bless you with a beta 5 ✨
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good to hear, any issues with Messages not syncing? I remember that was an issue in one of the earlier betas, were messages were not being marked as read between devices.
Yes, early on I had massive sync issues (beta 1, maybe 2) - that have since been corrected. On my older iPad, it'll eventually catch up on sync - but not everything is always properly marked as already read on that old tablet

That unit is on iOS 26 (EOL), so it's not currently in our beta run. With the new filtering of texts, it's easy enough to catch all the threads that are marked 'unread' and clear it up when it occurs

Between my '27 OS devices (mobile and laptop), all syncs properly and nicely now - I think from beta 3 onward
 
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