“With iOS 10, Apple spent a lot of time adding new features to the Messages app,” Jason Cipriani writes for CNET. “From an iMessage App Store to drawing tools to screen and message effects.”
“With iOS 11, Apple refined the Messages app, adding fewer features and making those that already existed easier to use,” Cipriani writes. “Here’s what’s different.”
• Messages sync across all of your Apple devices
• Person-to-person Apple Pay money transfers
• New app picker makes it much easier to find and use iMessage Apps
• Two new screen effects: Echo and Spotlight
• An easier way to mute conversations (hide alerts)
Read more, and see the screenshots, in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Having Messages sync across all of our devices will be a huge improvement. So will making Messages app easy to find (right now, they’re quite hidden) – for both users and developers!
My messages show up on 3 computers, a phone and an iPad already? I’m confused.
Yeah, they have for several years now. This goes back at least to 2013 possibly earlier. Even my regular green SMS syncs. What exactly is new here?
I know. That’s what confuses me about that.
If one or more devices are off-line for an extended time, sometimes messages are not subsequently picked up from other devices. Also, if you delete a message on one device, it remains on the others. IOS 11 apparently will remedy these oddities.
Yes, but the sync changes will work this way: If you delete a message on one devices, it will now be deleted on other devices, too.
That would be a change. A welcome change.
A most useful feature of Messages in iOS has been removed in iOS 10, and I hope it finds its way back.
Currently, I can’t find a way to copy a part of a text message. Let’s say, you get a two-factor authentication text from your bank:
“Your security code is 648591”. You need to copy that code and paste it into your bank’s app (or into Safari). Right now, I can’t, for the life of me, figure out how to select part of that text message (the number only) and copy it. When I tap and hold (or ‘3d-touch’ press), I get the bubble that lets me do ‘thumbs up’, ‘thumbs down’, ‘Ha, ha!’ and other such nonsense. At the bottom of the screen, there is an option to copy the entire message, but nowhere do I see a way to select a part of that text anymore.
This used to work perfectly, and is now quite infuriating. And it can’t be a fringe use-case. What do you do when someone says “Let’s meet at Le Cigare Volant at 9pm”. You want to google ‘Le Cigare Volant’, but there is no way to select only that. Or, they text “His email is dude@aol.com“. Messages will make that e-mail clickable, but that will only allow you to add it as a contact, or send a new message. You can’t copy it (if you, for example, want to add it to a Numbers spreadsheet with a list of people).
The disappearance of a feature to copy part of a text message is a colossal failure. Either that, or I’m too stupid to find this functionality on iOS 10.
Someone feel free to set me straight on this one.
Same here. Maddening. Hope this is remedied in IOS 11.
Same here.
Workaround is to hold on text bubble and click More… on the popup then click the forward button. That puts that text bubble in an edit block which you can then select whatever part of that you need, then you can just cancel out of the screen when done.
Useful work-around. Hope they fix the actual problem, but this is helpful. Thanks, SithTech!
(That sounds like a customer testimonial for a company that employs users of the dark side of the force who happen to do tech support.)
I know what you mean – Apple has a infuriating way “fixing” nice little things that ain’t broken!!! 🙁
Sometimes you wonder ‘who in hell approved this??”
I actually don’t want message deletion synced across all devices and hope there is a way to keep it as it is now.
Mainly I want to be able to delete messages, in whole or part, from my phone and possibly my laptop but always have a copy on my desktop. If I want that deleted also then it is only a matter of clicking an X.
Another reason is an accidental deletion of an entire thread that has pictures, jokes and whatnot that may be deleted across ALL of your devices. Once this happens, that shit is gone! (unless Time Machine has a way to reinstall it in the thread).
Anyhow, I can see where some people might enjoy this and where it could be handy but I don’t want it.
Seems deleting across devices or not ought to be a user option.