Will always be a half baked app unless it goes multi platform. Too bad because it keeps getting better.
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You Can Edit or Unsend an iMessage Up to 15 Minutes After Sending in iOS 16
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My swear jar hates this changes, the amount of times I curse at apple’s autocorrect when I have sent a message. Now instead of having to send a corrections message I can fix the original.
I accidentally texted my middle schooler a message about our taxes. I attempted to lock down her iPhone. Then was greeted with new opt-in 2 factor authentication. Drove to school. Had principle bring her phone to office so I could confiscate “phone for a minute. As I recall there still was no way to delete it (back then).
Elon says you can change a tweet until someone replies.. hmm
I’m not sure whether I should laugh or stare in concern! But yes, this should address that specific issue at least. I’ve had a few “whoa, that was the wrong thread!” moments, but nothing as potentially catastrophic as that!
Your mistake is caring what people think
Nope, it's so others don't know whether I have/haven't read their message, and then expect an immediate response or similar. Privacy of thought leading to an action or not. ;-)
Again, no. It's not about caring what they think. It's about them KNOWING WHAT I'VE DONE, for business decision reasons.
I’m trying to picture how this is more than just a gimmick to some extent. If the recipient reads the iMessage, and is aware it can be deleted then they will take a screenshot if they want to keep it. I also ambivalent about why if you send me something and I receive it you having the power to take it back once it has arrived on —MY phone- I wouldn’t mind getting a notification saying “Bob wants to retract the embarrassing iMessage he sent: allow or disallow?”
It seems like the problem isn’t read receipts but people’s boundaries/expectations re: availability. Just because I’ve read your message doesn’t mean I’m available at the moment, and just because you’ve read my message doesn’t mean you’re available at the moment. The IM at work has a similar issue, so people do the “hi [person]” thing. I’d rather they say hi but include the thing they need to say in the first message. I don’t want to get a ping only to have to wait on you to tell me why you’re pinging me. Send it all at once so I can know how to respond.
Yeah but Craig had an enormous amount of air time. He's great and I enjoy his presentations. I know, it's because he's in charge of both iOS and macOS software now. Just thinking of Craig and all that "speaking time". That had to be a lot of work on him!
Yes something like that. Hence just turning off read receipts, saves one the bother in the first place.
Likewise the new “undo send” feature for Apple Mail will come in handy for doofuses like me. The feature has been quite helpful at work with GMail (which can be configured to undo a send for 30 seconds). On a laptop it is unnerving to fat finger while editing and send a half written email. (“If I hit Enter now is that going to new-line or send the email?”). Drives me nuts
Why do you care if someone knows which version of iOS you're running? It's not like you'll compromise anything personal to let someone know they can use a feature and actually have it work. There's nothing wrong with a small text at the bottom of the iMessage indicating if someone is running iOS 15.5 or iOS 16.
The people you should be messaging are hardly "random yabbos," they are people you know personally.
Classic chat room (etiquette) problems since the days of IRC.
"Don't ask to ask a question, just ask!"
More accurately, it's a general society etiquette issue. How often do you hear "can I ask you a question?". Ugh. "Not anymore, you just burned your only one. Good-bye."
You guys remember when Apple made their apps independent from the OS so they wouldn’t have to wait god knows how many months to release minor updates like this one? What happened to that?
I don't care. That's why they don't need to know.
Whether or not I know someone sending me a text message personally is irrelevant to whether they get to edit what is now on my device.
Those are the good uses for it. Sending an abusive or threatening message that then disappears is the bad side. If I or anyone I know was on the receiving end of a message like that, I would like the evidence to remain.
The message(s) are on iOS software, which isn’t something you own. You only own the hardware iOS runs on.
You share the iOS messages app platform with other iPhone users, which is owned by Apple and is based on cloud-services.
This type of situation is no different than when people un-send Instagram or Facebook messages.