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Replying to an older text message

Since the most recent update, I no longer have the “reply” option when pressing and holding on an older message in a text chain. Any settings, fixes, etc for this?

iPhone 12 Pro Max

Posted on Aug 25, 2022 2:15 PM

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Posted on Aug 25, 2022 2:34 PM

Is this an iMessage, or an SMS/MMS, sent by a non-iOS device? If a non-iOS device, then the message is an SMS/MMS and the reply from tapback does not work. It has to be an iMessage.

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Replying to an older text message

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