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Search on the messages app is broken for me on iOS and macOS. It really can’t find things that are there. So I have to scroll and look around. The sizes reporte
by AnonC 3y ago
Search on the messages app is broken for me on iOS and macOS. It really can’t find things that are there. So I have to scroll and look around. The sizes reported are also inaccurate. While iCloud will report some large number, when I dig into the largest messages section it doesn’t show anything close to that size (with just a few items in that list).
Since the macOS Messages app is some Catalyst abomination, it won’t even support expected keyboard shortcuts for navigation, selection and deletion. Having to do everything using the trackpad is a slow process.
It’s frustrating that messages is so bad.
- jahnu 3y agoWhy are message apps like this? Tons of effort for almost useless stuff like stickers but super basic media management. Even in open source apps where in theory we can contribute functionality like Signal it’s difficult. E.g. it’s impractical to delete lots of media in groups in the iOS app. I added a PR last year to help this but still waiting for a merge even though it has been approved :( Edit: PR for the curious https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/pull/5685 https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-iOS/pull/5685
- AnonC 3y agoThough Telegram’s chats are not end-to-end encrypted by default (and E2EE is not available for group chats), its storage management on device and on the cloud are quite good.