![]() Tap Edit in the upper-left corner, tap Show Recently Deleted, select the messages to restore, and tap Recover in the lower-right corner.įinally, Apple has tweaked Messages so you can use the Tapback feature (press and hold a message, and then tap one of the response icons above it) to send a corresponding emoji to messages sent by Android users with SMS. What if you inadvertently delete the wrong conversation or message? You can now access those for up to 30 days in Recently Deleted. Then tap Delete in the prompt that appears, and Report Junk in the next one. (We like to imagine an Apple satellite’s space laser vaporizing the offender’s phone.) If you get a junk text, either via iMessage (blue bubble) or SMS/MMS (green bubble), swipe all the way left on it. There’s no way to know how effective reporting junk messages is in preventing future spam from that person or phone number, but it feels good. In short, you still need to think before you send! Meanwhile, even if the recipient is running iOS 16, they still could have read the message before you unsent it, and if they didn’t see it, they would still see a message saying that you unsent it. It disappears instantly, and you see a warning about it working only with compatible devices. To unsend a message within that 2-minute window, press and hold the message, then tap Undo Send. However, if the recipient isn’t using an iPhone or has any Apple device logged into iMessage that’s not running iOS 16, iPadOS 16, or macOS 13 Ventura, the message will not be deleted on that device, with no indication that you tried to recall it. With iOS 16, if you realize you’ve made such a mistake within 2 minutes, you can undo sending, which deletes the message from the recipient’s iPhone, replacing it with a message saying that you unsent it. Have you ever sent something in Messages that you wanted to call back? We’ve certainly sent the right message to the wrong person and inadvertently sent gibberish with errant taps on the keyboard. In other words, you can fix mistakes, but you can’t pretend they never happened. If they tap Edited, they can see previous versions of the message. It’s important to note, however, that the recipient could have seen the message before you edited it, and even if they didn’t, such messages are marked with Edited in the conversation. Make your changes and then tap the blue checkmark if you change your mind, tap the gray X. To edit a message during that 15-minute window, press and hold the message, then tap Edit. With Messages in iOS 16, you can fix such errors within 15 minutes after sending, and if necessary, you can do it up to five times. We’ve all been the victims of auto-correct or dictation errors that render a message embarrassing, confusing, or inexplicable. For a pinned conversation, press and hold the conversation and tap Mark as Unread. To mark a conversation as unread after looking at it, return to the message list and swipe all the way right on the conversation. Note that Mark as Unread works at the conversation level, not the message level. That way, if you receive a message while you’re busy, you can pretend that you haven’t read it so the red icon badge and blue dot remind you to deal with the message later. If an icon badge or blue dot is your nudge to do something, you’ll like Messages’ new capability to mark messages as unread. The same applies to the blue dots that appear next to conversations in Messages to indicate unread posts. There are two types of people in the world: those who use red icon badges as reminders and those who ignore them entirely. An unsent message can’t be called back from a recipient not running iOS 16-it will remain in the conversation with no indication that you tried to unsend it. Instead of an edited message, a device running any other operating system will display a second message with the edited text. Finally, there’s a Tapback improvement for SMS messages to Android users.īefore we begin, beware that editing messages and Undo Send work the way you expect only if your recipient is also using iMessage (blue bubble friends) with iOS 16 (or iPadOS 16 or macOS 13 Ventura, once those come out later in 2022). ![]() Plus, when you delete junk texts in Messages, you can now report them to Apple and your carrier, and you can find inadvertently deleted conversations in Recently Deleted. After years of user requests, Apple has finally beefed up Messages with a few welcome features-options to mark conversations as unread for later reference, edit messages after they’ve been sent, and undo sending entirely.
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