This is a very misleading feature that is going to confuse & frustrate a lot of people. "Unsending" a message doesn't REALLY unsend it if the person has already seen the message on their lock screen. You have no idea if the person has already read your message or not.
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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 wife and my former boss (then current) have similar names. Let’s just say one time there was almost a huge problem and I dropped the phone when I realized what was about to happen and I had to defuse it like a bomb. Never again. This new feature would’ve been a nice backup assurance, especially for sending to people who are busy and don’t often check their messages.
Has anyone figured out if you can unsend a message that has been read if sent in that timeframe? Like ”IDK what you’re talking about, you saw nothing!” Hah. Doesn’t seem like that should work but idk.
Has anyone figured out if you can unsend a message that has been read if sent in that timeframe? Like ”IDK what you’re talking about, you saw nothing!” Hah. Doesn’t seem like that should work but idk.
My wife and I like a confirmation that another person received the message. Like when my wife is at the store I like to know she saw my message about needing to get something or I’ll have to call her if she doesn’t notice it. Or if she is busy and needs me to pick up the kids from whatever thing they’re doing. It’s useful. But yeah, for everyone else I leave that crap off!
This is awful, will 100% cause confusion and frustration. Unless there there are notifications of edits and deletions on both sides
so can recipients undelete any messages sent to them and subsequently delted bu the sender or can only senders delete then undelete or recover in some way?
I spend more time I messaging than email or the abysmal WhatsApp so any improvements are welcome
Tbh quite impressed with the wwdc overall , better than last year that’s for sure
Tbh quite impressed with the wwdc overall , better than last year that’s for sure
how do you customise receipts on a per recipient basis? my settings just has the on/off switch. iOS 15.5
I wonder what the legal ramifications would be for this. I know of more than one person who was able to get a judgment on someone based on an iMessage thread.
Yes, but having someone momentarily read a message you didn’t mean to send (embarrassing or otherwise) is a lot better than having it remain in perpetuity.
It’s so easy to send the wrong photo accidentally in iMessage. Or to add the wrong photo to the one you meant to send. Being able to unsend these is a positive, IMO.
How do you know the recipient has not read the message? I’m assuming that if the message has been read, you won’t be able to “unsend” it.
How do you know of the recipient has iOS 16 and that the “unsend” will actually work?
Considering the whole point of text messaging is to send and receive communication instantly, and using my example where if someone sends me a text I get it and read it immediately on my watch, that feature is totally USELESS!
How do you know of the recipient has iOS 16 and that the “unsend” will actually work?
Considering the whole point of text messaging is to send and receive communication instantly, and using my example where if someone sends me a text I get it and read it immediately on my watch, that feature is totally USELESS!
I would guess that if iMessage detects that the other user is on iOS 15 or older, the unsend button won’t appear.
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You can’t edit or delete the message once it’s read even if it’s in the 15 minute period
Go to any conversation thread and tap the contact's name. From there, you'll see a toggle for "Send Read Receipts".
Are you sure about this? None of the articles I’ve read mention this. Was it detailed during the presentation?
Tap on the person’s name in iMessage. Turn Send Read Receipts on or off as needed.
The intended behaviour brings iMessages more in-line with popular tools like Slack where taking a message back, deleting it, editing it etc is common. Users tend to expect similar features these days, and in each scenario you could of course take a screenshot etc - but that’s the same everywhere. Also, not everyone reads every message immediately so there will be benefit for some.
Fair point, on the other hand if you bundle updates of smaller nature together it’s likely easier for the customers to see the value and enhance adoption. If they’d continue to release app updates individually all the time, knowledge retention would probably suffer and we’d all be complaining about these constant updates.
Happy to see both unsend option and editing option available this year.
Couldn't this be used in nefarious ways by someone stalking and or harassing someone? Send harassing messages only to edit them shortly after getting rid of the proof.
The potential victim should collect evidence in any case, and immediately via a screenshot.
That’s the thing about any technology. There’s always a way to use them maliciously or benevolently, it’s just a matter of whether, on-net, it’s more beneficial to the bulk of people or more harmful. Reasonable people may disagree to what extent any given technology is beneficial or harmful. I think this happens to be net beneficial. (It would be really hard to use this for abuse since it has to be edited or deleted before the recipient has the ability to see and document the abusive message. If the recipient fails to see your abusive message because you deleted it in the 15 minute window [maybe the recipient is asleep or in the shower], the recipient wouldn’t even know.)
