For those of us who simply want to send and receive text messages, without effects, Digital Touch images, apps, etc., is there any way to turn all that off and return to the simpler interface we had in ios 9?
iPhone 6s, iOS 10.0.2
If you turn on "reduce motion" in the settings you will no longer see the fancy effects when people send them. Instead it'll put in parenthesis whatever the effect was. I.e. "(sent with whisper)"
You'll find this setting in
Settings>General>Accesibility>Reduce Motion
Keep in mind this will only turn off the effects. You will still receive the handwritten messages as normal.
Thanks. I knew this. Interestingly, Reduce Motion seemed to be turned on by default. I'm annoyed that now when I want to send a text, the area I need to click to bring up the keyboard has been cut in half and I'm always (initially) presented with camera, Digital Touch, and apps icons.
I remember when Steve Jobs insisted that the two-button mouse was an abomination that destroyed the elegant simplicity of having a single button. Wonder what he would have thought about all this.
OOooo. I understand what you meant now. Yeah, there's nothing you can do about that. If this is not something you want, get a simpler phone. Or get an android phone and use their painfully boring messaging app. IF simple texting is what you want, just get used to tapping on that halved message thing.
I found the solution: iOS 9.3.5. Works like a charm.
Is there any way to disable Messages bells and whistles in ios 10?
