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

How do you permanently display the time stamp above each and every test message. I have had an iPhone 3, 4, 4s and now the iPhone 5 and each one of these phones displayed the time stamp above the text message which has been very useful to me. When I updated my iPhone 5 to os 7.0.2 this useful feature disappeared. Yes, I know you can swipe your finger left to right, that's useless for me. I must me able to see the time stamps at a quick glance on every text message that is sent or received. I am quite often required to take screen shots of text conversations and the time stamp must be there. If this is not possible haw do I return to the previous operating system?

iPhone 5, iOS 7.0.2

Posted on Oct 19, 2013 9:31 PM

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Posted on May 11, 2017 12:42 PM

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.

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

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