Rumors had been going on for months that Apple’s iMessage, or Messages, app was going to change in iOS 16. After yesterday’s official presentation, it’s safe to say the rumors weren’t false. Increasingly, the app looks more and more like other instant messaging apps, without becoming a social network as many other reviews have pointed out. iMessages in iOS 16 lets you delete previously sent messages and edit them within a 15 minute window, among some other news that we tell you below.
15 minutes is the time we have to delete and edit messages in iMessages
You can now cancel the message you just sent or edit it to say what you really wanted. And if when they write to you you don’t have time, just mark the message as unread and reply to it later.
The time a user has in power edit or delete a message in a conversation of iOS 16 iMessages app is 15 minutes. This is how long the edit and trash are open. The novelty of iOS 16 arrives with great applause from users who, instead of sending messages with ‘*’ as a flag, prefer to modify their messages so that they do not have spelling mistakes.
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To access the Message editing mode in iMessage just press for a few seconds during the message and press “Edit” and from the same ball where it was sent we can edit it. In the same way, if instead of selecting Edit we select “Unsend”, we can delete the message from the conversation. And, therefore, it will not appear to us or the user we are talking to.
We must also celebrate the arrival of SharePlay to Messages with which we can send an invitation to start a shared activity like listening to the same playback on Apple Music. Anyone who wants to can join the app itself. And, on the other hand, new collaborative experiences have been designed to enhance teamwork that can also be initiated from Messages, such as the ability to create a shared workboard and work on it via FaceTime.
Apple already warns: both parties must have iOS 16 for options to work properly. If one of the two correspondents has another operating system, he will not see the modified messages and the deleted messages will not disappear. New functions which, even if it does not look like it, will save more than one from disappointment. What is your opinion?
