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#images no longer available in Messages on iPadOS 16.1

In iPadOS 15.x I could use the #images app to insert GIFs in the Messages

app. This appears to be missing in iPadOS 16.1. Is there a way

to get that functionality back? Searching onilne has been almost useless

since the # symbol is also used to identify tags on various platforms.


I've confirmed that it still exists in iOS 16.1, but I don't understand why it's not available on iPadOS 16.1.


I also checked the App Store and in the "More Apps" section, but it's just gone.



Screenshot from iPadOS 16.1's "iMessage Apps" screen:




Screenshot from iOS 16.1 "iMessage Apps" screen:

iPad Air 4 Wi-Fi

Posted on Oct 24, 2022 3:29 PM

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It turns out it was my network DNS ad-blocker. Just for the heck of it I disabled blocking and now #images shows up. I assume Apple is doing some sort of lookup to determine if #images are available in my region, and I must have been blocking that. Now to fuss around with what URL that might have been.

Posted on Oct 24, 2022 5:07 PM

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Oct 24, 2022 5:07 PM in response to obsidianspider

It turns out it was my network DNS ad-blocker. Just for the heck of it I disabled blocking and now #images shows up. I assume Apple is doing some sort of lookup to determine if #images are available in my region, and I must have been blocking that. Now to fuss around with what URL that might have been.

#images no longer available in Messages on iPadOS 16.1

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