The newest iOS 11.3 update enables a feature that asks if you're sure you want to delete a text message/iMessage once you choose the delete option. It's making me crazy! I tried searching through the settings to remove this deletion confirmation, but can't find anything on the topic. Is there any way to remove this feature?
iPhone 7 Plus, iOS 11.2.6, iOS 11.3
Dave in Oxford wrote:
Every so often Apple comes up with a "Feature" that so small and so annoying that begs the question as to whether they ever consult with a user. YES! Delete confirmation is an unnecessary addition to IOS and we can only hope that some security patch will remove it
No, Apple doesn't consult with users. Instead, they see what users do with their phones and often introduce features based on what they perceive as a real need. This is one such feature. Daily, multiple users come here to these user only forums begging for help to recover an accidentally deleted text message. In most cases, the only way to get the message back is to restore from backup, which often people simply don't have.
So, this very small change was introduced to help the countless thousands of users to ensure when they use swipe to delete that they truly do want to delete the message.
Are you aware there is another simple method to delete messages that will not ask you to confirm you want to delete? Yes, Apple provided the best of BOTH worlds to users. Simply use the Edit/Tap Messages(s)/Tap Trash icon and voila, message(s) delete without confirmation. That can't be any more cumbersome could it? It's three steps, just like it was before on swipe to delete.
Every so often Apple comes up with a "Feature" that so small and so annoying that begs the question as to whether they ever consult with a user. YES! Delete confirmation is an unnecessary addition to IOS and we can only hope that some security patch will remove it
Dave in Oxford wrote:
Every so often Apple comes up with a "Feature" that so small and so annoying that begs the question as to whether they ever consult with a user.
Apple has a long and storied history of giving users what Apple thinks they should have, not what the user thinks they need, going back to the mouse. I don't understand why this still seems to come as a surprise.
Dave in Oxford wrote:
Interesting that you should cite the introduction of the mouse. While times and acceptance have changed, the use of the mouse is still optional.
Whether or not there was a way to work around it was not my point. And irrelevant because there is a way to work around that delete confirmation. But, if you want others, the removal of the SCSI port, the removal of the floppy drive (yes you could still get a third party drive but, yes, you can use other messaging systems), the removal of optical drives, iOS 7, the change to USB-C, the change from the dock connector to the lightning port, the removal of the headset jack on iPhones.
You forgot "slide to unlock" or did you block that from memory? 🙂
That is the last time I can recall such a simple change in iOS causing this kind of reaction. Despite the predictions by many, the world did not end and to my knowledge, the sun has risen from the east each and every day since.
This too shall pass.
So many apps have this stupid problem. Wherever there’s a list of deletable items, There should be an edit button at the top. Then you check off all the ones you want to delete, then you hit delete and they all get deleted in the push of one button. This should be a new standard for all applications. I mean Christ it’s 2018 and they still haven’t figured this crap out – this is basic stuff.
There should be an edit button at the top. Then you check off all the ones you want to delete, then you hit delete and they all get deleted in the push of one button.
Seriously ??????
This exists in the very dialog we are endlessly discussing here.
Top left corner of the Messages app. Click EDIT. Select conversations to delete. Press the trash icon.
One button, all deleted.
Richpepp81 wrote:
So many apps have this stupid problem. Wherever there’s a list of deletable items, There should be an edit button at the top. Then you check off all the ones you want to delete, then you hit delete and they all get deleted in the push of one button. This should be a new standard for all applications. I mean Christ it’s 2018 and they still haven’t figured this crap out – this is basic stuff.
You are suggesting something that the Messages app already offers. Also, not sure what your commentary has to do with the specific issue being discussed in this thread.
As for other apps, what other apps are you even referring to? There are, literally, thousands of apps in the App Store. These apps are designed and sold by independent developers. How they design the app, is up to them. There is nothing to figure out.
If you want to make a suggestion to Apple regarding Apple-designed apps, then use the Feedback link that has been provided multiple times in this thread. You will have to be more specific in your feedback than you are here or the submission would be pointless. "So many apps" is too generic to be of any value.
GB
Agree completely. In spite of all of the upsides, the world would be a fat better place had cell phone technology (more specifically smart phone technology) never been invented. I have an hour commute to/from the office, and witness hundreds or morons every single day, driving at speeds up to 80 mph, texting away as if they are on the road alone. I have made a game of counting testers and talkers as I coast through queues to traffic lights and in traffic jams - unscientific results, at least 75% of the idiots behind the wheels are engrossed in their smart phones. Shameful and without a doubt we are witnessing the end of society as it one time was and should be displaced by living in a world of idiots (similar to the SW Engineers at Apple that came up with this "enhancement")!
greg_m59 wrote:
Shameful and without a doubt we are witnessing the end of society as it one time was and should be displaced by living in a world of idiots (similar to the SW Engineers at Apple that came up with this "enhancement")!
They said that when the waltz was introduced. And jazz. Oh, and going further back, books.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
greg_m59 wrote:
Shameful and without a doubt we are witnessing the end of society as it one time was and should be displaced by living in a world of idiots (similar to the SW Engineers at Apple that came up with this "enhancement")!
They said that when the waltz was introduced. And jazz. Oh, and going further back, books.
What about Rock & Roll? And pretty much every new generation since the beginning of time....
And hippies? OMG!!!
GB
Your analogy however, at least to me, leaves much to be desired. People choosing to do something irresponsible by driving and texting (which would likely end if Congress would enact legislation making it truly illegal to do nationwide) can hardly be related or compared to Apple adding a feature that is designed to help people. It will help many and that's the point.
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witness hundreds or morons every single day, driving at speeds up to 80 mph, texting away as if they are on the road alone.
This may eventually become an example of natural selection. aka thinning the herd. May they not take innocents with them.
We have such a law in Texas. It hasn't ended the practice but I've never seen "hundreds" of drivers doing it. I do still see people eating, drinking, adjusting their radio, trying to pick up things they dropped, grooming their beard, putting on makeup and checking other cars to see if they are texting.
Laws only have an effect when they are actually enforced. Start writing $275 tickets and assessing points on people's drivers licenses, even for a first time text and driving offense and watch behavior change quickly. As to people doing other things in their cars while driving, I don't think you can totally change human behavior, no matter how much safer it might make our roads.😉
$200 is the limit in Texas. The problem actually is in the enforcement aspect. Since it is a Class C Misdemeanor in Texas the officer has to actually be able to see the person texting. For those who put it on top of the steering wheel and tap away with one hand, no problem. But those who have it in their lap, below the window line, big problem. And exceptions are almost always added for navigation. Texas passed a no drinking alcoholic beverages law (the Lyndon Baines Johnson law and some called it) but to make the case the officer has to: see the person while driving take a drink of what is clearly an alcoholic beverage. "Coolie" manufacturers loved it, they just made them that said CocaCola or Pepsi or Mountain Dew and you put your beverage in that. Every two years the legislative research group would call and ask how many tickets we wrote for the offense and every two years I would tell them 0. On average across the state about 12 - 15 would be written. I used to say that anyone who received such a ticket should be immediately be put in a mental facility for 72 hour observation, they were clearly a hazard to themselves.
iOS 11.3 - Delete Message Confirmation
