How do you permanently display a time stamp for each and every text message?

I agree, it is totally HORRIBLE that time stamp does not appear. HATE that I decided to try IPhone, people who like them obviously never used a Windows phone. How do we tell Apple this is not acceptable? Many a time I have had to show management time stamps of conversations, specifically to prove responding in a timely manner. I don't have all day to swipe each message, and can't even do a screen capture. When all display, I can screen capture & email it asap.

You may have not read the question right. We already know about the swipe left thing. The question was how do you make it show the timestamps all the time. It looks like there is no way. iOS *****. I wish I could go back to Android.

FOTE_FriendOfTheEarth wrote:

You may have not read the question right. We already know about the swipe left thing. The question was how do you make it show the timestamps all the time. It looks like there is no way.

There is not. But, many people don't know that you can find the information quickly which is why people keep pointing it out.

Submit your feedback to Apple here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

iPhones hold their resale value very well. You can always sell your iPhone and put the money toward a phone that better meets your needs. Life is too short to get grumpy over a little pile of metal and glass.

Sweetskris wrote:

Someone is using my Apple tv to do this to me..please help

To do what to you? This thread is about displaying a time stamp for SMS/iMessages. The Apple TV has no messaging capabilities.

With respect, this answer does not answer the question. I appreciate that I could submit feedback to Apple, and that if I don't like the way something works there are other options. But if you are going to provide feedback to a legitimate question at least try to address the issue instead of dismissing the question as though it is ridiculous.

So to get to the point...for those of us who want to have a permanently displayed time stamp is it possible? It seems like something that an add on like Glims for Safari could do. Can this be done somehow?

And if the answer is no...that is all you need to say...I don't need instruction on what I could do regarding feedback.

Unless your friend's device was jailbroken, that's incorrect. iOS 6 did not show the time stamp for every message. It only displayed them after a 15 minute pause in the conversation. Now, in iOS 7, you can see a time stamp for every message when you swipe. If you don't like the way it works, submit your feedback directly to Apple using the appropriate link on the Feedback page:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

So is there a way to permanently view timestamps without the swiping right to left? Yes or no? Anyone know? Cuz id really like that.

BillieBong3 wrote:

Finally not finally. How does one toggle on persistent timestamps without the invoke swipe?

Nothing has changed. You don't. That's not a feature of Messages.

Submit your feedback to Apple requesting something different here:

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Someone is using my Apple tv to do this to me..please help

norssk wrote:

And if the answer is no...that is all you need to say...I don't need instruction on what I could do regarding feedback.

As it happens, I wasn't responding to you four months ago when I made that post. And, many people are unaware of the correct feedback link to let Apple know what kinds of change they'd like to see. You are quite free to ignore any answers that don't meet your needs.

Best of luck.

Julesxo wrote:

To all of you saying no after ios7 came out in august/sept you're wrong. There is a perm enact time stamp you just can't see it. You have to swipe the screen to left and hold it to see the time.

Yes. I was quite aware of that, as was the person I was directing my answer to. However, it isn't displayed all of the time. You have to invoke it. Which is what Veruca 25 was asking if it was possible to avoid.

Best of luck.

I am able to take a screenshot while also swiping the messages aside to see the timestamp. It does require some manual dexterity though -- three fingers with simultaneous functions to perform. I'm right-handed so I hold the phone in my left, swipe texts aside with right middle finger (moving right to left), use right thumb on home button at the bottom and left pointer finger on on/off button at the top.
Thank you for the information about swiping -- that is exactly what I was looking for when I found this thread.
Best,

-lwitman

Hi Meg,

Could you please advise what the time stamp relates to on an SMS, the time the send button was pushed or the time received by the recipient? Much appreciate your wisdom (or Witchdom??). Thank you.

Lord Lamborne wrote:

Hi Meg,

Could you please advise what the time stamp relates to on an SMS, the time the send button was pushed or the time received by the recipient? Much appreciate your wisdom (or Witchdom??). Thank you.

As those two events are generally not even seconds apart, it usually wouldn't matter. But, it's the time the message is sent.