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"Powerful Updates to Messages", lol. Apple hasn't put an ounce of power into messaging. It's been 10 years, and they haven't innovated at all in the message spa

"Powerful Updates to Messages", lol. Apple hasn't put an ounce of power into messaging. It's been 10 years, and they haven't innovated at all in the message space in any meaningful way (no, Memoji is not a meaningful extension of the messaging space). It's sad to see the lack of energy to actually create powerful and useful software, rather than to doing the bare minimum to compete in the smartphone market.

tribeca18 6y ago
What's something you wish existed/suggest?
- adamnemecek 6y ago
  I feel like imessage takes up too much space to my computer hdd. It's like 25gb. Seems like a lot.
  - nofunsir 6y ago
    Stop saving all your gif messages
    - adamnemecek 6y ago
      I'm not.
  - hadem 6y ago
    So move/delete your old messages and attachments... I don't understand how is this an iMessage issue?
- gingericha 6y ago
  A couple things I would love to see in iMessage having used WhatsApp as my primary messaging app for the past several years: (1) Direct replying/quoting to a specific message. (2) More granular group chat controls (eg ability to add/remove/leave group message threads. (3) Ability to rename group chats so that I don't have 3 chat threads that contain the same first two people plus someone else
  - TheTrotters 6y ago
    Seems like (1) is included in iOS 14? “Inline replies You can reply directly to a specific message in a group conversation. See all related messages in their own view to easily keep track of a thread.”
  - jkubicek 6y ago
    re 3: Renaming group chats has been a feature for a few years now
    - easton 6y ago
      Not for SMS (presumably because it can’t be shared to the other participants, but I’d still like a way to apply an alias to these four or five person deep threads for my own devices).
  - x2f10 6y ago
    Unless I'm mistaken, all three are available on iOS right now. You can reply to a specific message, you can add/remove/leave a group iMessage, and you can name (and emoticon) group chats.
- r1nkgrl 6y ago
  search that actually works. It baffles me that I can't search someone by firstname lastname and have our messages thread come up 100% reliably. Sure it works some of the time, but not for older threads. Im ok with waiting 10 seconds as long as it returns the results I know are there. I am forced to go to Contacts and find the person, then click the new message button linking into messages. Contacts app has a similar issue. I have < 1000 contacts, yet I can't search reliably for a contact I know is there by first / last name. I have to scroll through the list of all my contacts to get to it. Maybe this is a bug, but its been an issue for me for years.
- johnknowles 6y ago
  Threading, better search, tagging, sharing message bits with others, temporary group messages, better in-message features (polls, lists), better ways to send multiple pieces of media in a singular unit, ways to spend "live" time within imessage, higher-level walkie-talkie, ways to schedule messages, ways to send longer forms ("bursting the bubble"), sending rich text in messages,......
  - threeseed 6y ago
    Okay. That's a lot of features. You do understand that the iPhone is designed for the widest of audiences from children to elderly. I don't think making Messages significantly more complex is a good thing.
slipheen 6y ago
Huh? It can run other apps inside of it, You can @people inside a group message, pin people to the top, etc.. You may not care for the app, but they update it relatively frequently!
- johnknowles 6y ago
  "Update" which includes the most basic of iterations. I mean 95% of the current offerings could be completed in a few 2-week dev cycles. Its been almost 500 weeks of existence....@'ing people and pinning...c'mon!!! That's default stuff. The "iPhone" should be called the "iMessage" if it was true to it's purpose.
racl101 6y ago
Innovations such as ....?
- johnknowles 6y ago
  Threading, better search, tagging, sharing message bits with others, temporary group messages, better in-message features, better ways to send multiple pieces of media in a singular unit, ways to spend "live" time within imessage...i could go on for awhile
observr9 6y ago
I just want to disable the pointless "message sent" tone in iMessage.
pkamb 6y ago
iMessage (blue bubble) conversations are fairly good and well-featured, but I wish they would bring some kind of improvements to SMS text messages (green bubbles). I wonder how much of it is competitive advantage to push people to switch to iOS vs. Apple executives literally never texting people with Android phones.

tribeca18 6y ago

What's something you wish existed/suggest?

adamnemecek 6y ago
I feel like imessage takes up too much space to my computer hdd. It's like 25gb. Seems like a lot.
- nofunsir 6y ago
  Stop saving all your gif messages
  - adamnemecek 6y ago
    I'm not.
- hadem 6y ago
  So move/delete your old messages and attachments... I don't understand how is this an iMessage issue?
gingericha 6y ago
A couple things I would love to see in iMessage having used WhatsApp as my primary messaging app for the past several years: (1) Direct replying/quoting to a specific message. (2) More granular group chat controls (eg ability to add/remove/leave group message threads. (3) Ability to rename group chats so that I don't have 3 chat threads that contain the same first two people plus someone else
- TheTrotters 6y ago
  Seems like (1) is included in iOS 14? “Inline replies You can reply directly to a specific message in a group conversation. See all related messages in their own view to easily keep track of a thread.”
- jkubicek 6y ago
  re 3: Renaming group chats has been a feature for a few years now
  - easton 6y ago
    Not for SMS (presumably because it can’t be shared to the other participants, but I’d still like a way to apply an alias to these four or five person deep threads for my own devices).
- x2f10 6y ago
  Unless I'm mistaken, all three are available on iOS right now. You can reply to a specific message, you can add/remove/leave a group iMessage, and you can name (and emoticon) group chats.
r1nkgrl 6y ago
search that actually works. It baffles me that I can't search someone by firstname lastname and have our messages thread come up 100% reliably. Sure it works some of the time, but not for older threads. Im ok with waiting 10 seconds as long as it returns the results I know are there. I am forced to go to Contacts and find the person, then click the new message button linking into messages. Contacts app has a similar issue. I have < 1000 contacts, yet I can't search reliably for a contact I know is there by first / last name. I have to scroll through the list of all my contacts to get to it. Maybe this is a bug, but its been an issue for me for years.
johnknowles 6y ago
Threading, better search, tagging, sharing message bits with others, temporary group messages, better in-message features (polls, lists), better ways to send multiple pieces of media in a singular unit, ways to spend "live" time within imessage, higher-level walkie-talkie, ways to schedule messages, ways to send longer forms ("bursting the bubble"), sending rich text in messages,......
- threeseed 6y ago
  Okay. That's a lot of features. You do understand that the iPhone is designed for the widest of audiences from children to elderly. I don't think making Messages significantly more complex is a good thing.

slipheen 6y ago

Huh? It can run other apps inside of it, You can @people inside a group message, pin people to the top, etc.. You may not care for the app, but they update it relatively frequently!

johnknowles 6y ago
"Update" which includes the most basic of iterations. I mean 95% of the current offerings could be completed in a few 2-week dev cycles. Its been almost 500 weeks of existence....@'ing people and pinning...c'mon!!! That's default stuff. The "iPhone" should be called the "iMessage" if it was true to it's purpose.

racl101 6y ago

Innovations such as ....?

johnknowles 6y ago
Threading, better search, tagging, sharing message bits with others, temporary group messages, better in-message features, better ways to send multiple pieces of media in a singular unit, ways to spend "live" time within imessage...i could go on for awhile

observr9 6y ago

I just want to disable the pointless "message sent" tone in iMessage.

pkamb 6y ago

iMessage (blue bubble) conversations are fairly good and well-featured, but I wish they would bring some kind of improvements to SMS text messages (green bubbles). I wonder how much of it is competitive advantage to push people to switch to iOS vs. Apple executives literally never texting people with Android phones.