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iOS 26 Will Add 10 New Features to the Messages App on Your iPhone
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Gosh, I hope so too
Drives me nuts when I read a message on my iPhone and then I still get an unread badge on my MacBook Air
Odd, I only see Backgrounds as an option for my Apple contacts, not any of my Android contacts, even my android contacts that show RCS, don't have the Backgrounds option.
It's not a big deal for me either way as I will rarely use a background. I am just surprised that some folks see the option with Android contacts, and others don't. I am using a 16 Pro, and am in the US, so its not a hardware or location issue.
Yeah, been pretty much fine for me too
One of my few friends I have that has an Android phone, and between me (AT&T) and him (Xfinity Mobile, which uses Verizon's towers) it's also been rock solid
Same with my family's group chat which has all of us on iPhones but 1 person; so nice now when I'm on CarPlay or my AirPods (which I have Siri set to announce notifications from messages) Siri will now just come back with saying "[person] [reaction] your message" instead of what it did before with "[person] reacted to your message [message] with an [emoji]"
The iMessage background feature really makes the iPhone look like Android. What will they do next, add font options so people can use Comic Sans? 😖
What do you mean? You don't need texts in your inbox from 7 years ago?
Then what's the reason to have the unknown sender filter on in the first place? It's not like unknown sender spam uses the same phone number. They change it basically every time. That's the entire reason I was quick to use the feature.
Also, as it was... iPhone separated the messages. Although some leaked thru or you saw notifications for some or all maybe? And sometimes I had to select All and then Known again to get rid of the unknown messages as it seemed to sometimes to not remember. It seemed buggy.
btw, the Mac needs to get up to par with the iPHone's handling of these. There isn't even known/unknown folders.
I can't picture this because you had to go into settings in the first place to filter messages by known/unknown in the first place. Takes a certain level of savviness to do that.
iPHone was already sending messages to unknown folder too. So I was already checking the unknown folder once in awhile.
Any convenience or security feature is welcome, so credit to Apple for adding to the functionality of Messages. There's some good stuff here - polls, natural language search, and end-to-end RCS encryption are standouts. I'm also not mad at typing indicators or the add contact option.
The background option would have been a winner if you could also change the background of the conversation list itself - still, a nice touch. What I would also love to see in the future is send delay, which I found incredibly useful when I was still on Android. For me, the current "send later" feature hasn't thus far proven to be useful. A 30-second message delay option would be far more convenient.
The background option would have been a winner if you could also change the background of the conversation list itself - still, a nice touch. What I would also love to see in the future is send delay, which I found incredibly useful when I was still on Android. For me, the current "send later" feature hasn't thus far proven to be useful. A 30-second message delay option would be far more convenient.
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Maybe I'm wrong about this, but I don't see a way to add someone to a messages thread between myself and one other person. I do see how to add another person to an existing group chat though.
Not currently possible. Although it makes zero sense, adding a contact to a group chat is only possible if there are three or more members already present. If you want to add a contact to a two-person chat, you need to start a new group chat instead. No one does arbitrary and illogical quite like Apple.
Lol Y3ah you and me both!I don't get this background thing. Perhaps I don't have enough friends iMessaging me enough to care. Sounds like a "me" problem
Toomuch of a social buttery elementary school playground show off feature - i have this on AndroidOS.
Honestly with "Unknown sender screening" Id love for Apple's iOS and Psuh notification servers to take this up a notch where Ai or NPUs across the system identifies Spam, the sender's number and email address across all Apple OS systems and end users to refine spam with options to mark spam as:
Telemarketing,
cold calling or cold sales/marketing,
Robot Caller/messenger,
etc
this way with a collated higher than say 60% community voting such nefarious actors have THEIR Messages accounts suspended or blocked and purged from every good Messages community userfromever receiving spam from the same source again.
just thought could be fixed.
