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.
gail from maine wrote:
Ever heard the term "glutton for punishment"? What is WRONG with us??????
GB
I don't know. Honest, I don't. I think what I really need to do is un-follow this ridiculous whiny thread and just let them enter, post they agree and exit, which is exactly what they all seem to do. They don't read past the first post, so why should we provide the link to them?
rbrylawski wrote:
gail from maine wrote:
Ever heard the term "glutton for punishment"? What is WRONG with us??????
GB
I don't know. Honest, I don't. I think what I really need to do is un-follow this ridiculous whiny thread and just let them enter, post they agree and exit, which is exactly what they all seem to do. They don't read past the first post, so why should we provide the link to them?
Maybe we should confer with King_Penguin, who has patiently and unceasingly posted the same answer with the same link in practically every other post for 72 pages (probably more by now) of "I can't make purchases. I keep getting the message Contact iTunes Support WorldWide when I try to buy something. What do I do?"....
GB
gail from maine wrote:
rbrylawski wrote:
gail from maine wrote:
Ever heard the term "glutton for punishment"? What is WRONG with us??????
GB
I don't know. Honest, I don't. I think what I really need to do is un-follow this ridiculous whiny thread and just let them enter, post they agree and exit, which is exactly what they all seem to do. They don't read past the first post, so why should we provide the link to them?
Maybe we should confer with King_Penguin, who has patiently and unceasingly posted the same answer with the same link in practically every other post for 72 pages (probably more by now) of "I can't make purchases. I keep getting the message Contact iTunes Support WorldWide when I try to buy something. What do I do?"....
GB
King_Penguin, was clearly born with the patience gene. I must have been browsing some other gene pool during conception as I clearly don't have such a gene! 😉
gail from maine wrote:
rbrylawski wrote:
gail from maine wrote:
Ever heard the term "glutton for punishment"? What is WRONG with us??????
GB
I don't know. Honest, I don't. I think what I really need to do is un-follow this ridiculous whiny thread and just let them enter, post they agree and exit, which is exactly what they all seem to do. They don't read past the first post, so why should we provide the link to them?
Maybe we should confer with King_Penguin, who has patiently and unceasingly posted the same answer with the same link in practically every other post for 72 pages (probably more by now) of "I can't make purchases. I keep getting the message Contact iTunes Support WorldWide when I try to buy something. What do I do?"....
GB
I feel a certain urge to post, "Swipe to unlock is gone and never coming back". I suspect a lot of people wouldn't get the joke, though.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
gail from maine wrote:
rbrylawski wrote:
gail from maine wrote:
Ever heard the term "glutton for punishment"? What is WRONG with us??????
GB
I don't know. Honest, I don't. I think what I really need to do is un-follow this ridiculous whiny thread and just let them enter, post they agree and exit, which is exactly what they all seem to do. They don't read past the first post, so why should we provide the link to them?
Maybe we should confer with King_Penguin, who has patiently and unceasingly posted the same answer with the same link in practically every other post for 72 pages (probably more by now) of "I can't make purchases. I keep getting the message Contact iTunes Support WorldWide when I try to buy something. What do I do?"....
GB
I feel a certain urge to post, "Swipe to unlock is gone and never coming back". I suspect a lot of people wouldn't get the joke, though.
Just us'ns would get it. LOL
rbrylawski wrote:
gail from maine wrote:
King_Penguin, was clearly born with the patience gene. 😉
Naturally. Male King Penguins will stand for months incubating their egg by balancing it on top of their feet.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
rbrylawski wrote:
gail from maine wrote:
King_Penguin, was clearly born with the patience gene. 😉
Naturally. Male King Penguins will stand for months incubating their egg by balancing it on top of their feet.
See, I'd naturally make a really bad King Penguin! Yes I would!
IdrisSeabright wrote:
Lawrence Finch wrote:
Amazing! This is the biggest bunch of whiners I have seen; even bigger than the swipe whiners and the calendar whiners.
I must have forgotten the calendar issue.
How lucky you are. I wish I could. Does "Holi" ring a bell?
It is beyond amazing. What we need to do though, ALL OF US need to do, is stop responding to any of them. This thread keeps getting moved to the top because every time we respond, we're helping keep it at the top. If we stop responding to these whiners, it will get buried and die the death it truly needs to die.
I'm going to do my part and unfollow the thread. I invite you all to do the same. Let them come, not read anything, post their "me too" post and get no responses from us.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
IdrisSeabright wrote:
Lawrence Finch wrote:
Amazing! This is the biggest bunch of whiners I have seen; even bigger than the swipe whiners and the calendar whiners.
I must have forgotten the calendar issue.
How lucky you are. I wish I could. Does "Holi" ring a bell?
Oh that calendar thing. I was thinking a change in how something worked like the swipe to unlock (which I had forgotten about until someone reminded me.
Would that I could forget the U.S. Holiday kerfuffle.
I agree, this needs a disable option, I suspect the more updates that are installed the complaints to come. It’s like the volume adjustment appearing right in the middle of the screen, pure obnoxious!!! Do you hear us Apple!?!!?
M22407 wrote:
I agree, this needs a disable option, I suspect the more updates that are installed the complaints to come. It’s like the volume adjustment appearing right in the middle of the screen, pure obnoxious!!! Do you hear us Apple!?!!?
No, Apple doesn't hear you here. Maybe if you would take the time to read even one page of this thread you would realize that.
GB
Wes Adams wrote:
It’s like having to walk a letter to the trash can then walk the whole trash can to the outside garbage can just to throw away one letter!
But, good exercise and the trash probably needed to be emptied anyway. And you should probably be putting paper in recycling anyway. 😉
I'm throwing my voice in too. This "new feature" is a complete waste of time. Now when I delete a message I have to delete it, or confirm it, three times. All I need is a single swipe and its gone. I get hundreds of text messages a week and if I have to spend 3x time on each one of them it consumes my time. Who else does this, oh yeah Face Book Messenger, and that is a complete waste of my time too. (Apple I did not know you were trying to be like FB)
Docdavid01 wrote:
I'm throwing my voice in too. This "new feature" is a complete waste of time. Now when I delete a message I have to delete it, or confirm it, three times. All I need is a single swipe and its gone. I get hundreds of text messages a week and if I have to spend 3x time on each one of them it consumes my time. Who else does this, oh yeah Face Book Messenger, and that is a complete waste of my time too. (Apple I did not know you were trying to be like FB)
Gee, that's really terrible.
iOS 11.3 - Delete Message Confirmation
