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.
What's really horrible is that people come to a 55 page thread, and then don't even bother to read any of it. You are wasting your time and our time. The answer you need has been posted at least once on each of the 55 pages here. We are users here. We are not interested in your unhappiness about the change. Read the thread, and do something productive about it.
GB
The first thing I did after updating both iPhone's and iPad's was go to Cloud Settings and turning that feature on! So glad to see this. Can't wait for the people who delete messages and will never be able to get them back after this. They'll be crying that there should be more warning if one deletes a message.
markfromburraneer wrote:
Please Apple remove the extra steps to delete a message thread.
Remember that now, if you have iMessages in iCloud enabled, if you delete messages on one device, it will delete them on all devices.
Also remember, Apple isn't reading here
My vote goes against removal. Giving all users a global delete without a confirmation dialog is like giving them a loaded handgun without a safety. Given the opportunity a large proportion of users will manage to have it pointing at their feet or genitals when it goes off.... Backup? What's that?
Ghostdust wrote:
See my reply sir. REPEAT. NOTHING...it’s a suggestion as opposed to this stupid new message deletion feature
You make no sense, so I'm guessing that you are just trolling here to waste everyone's time. We are users just like you, so there is no point in making "suggestions". And making remarks that are totally unrelated to the thread or it's contents is even more pointless. Find something better to do. No one here cares what you think about the new feature. If you have a beef with Apple, tell them: Apple - Feedback. Just stop wasting our time.
GB
And I'm again amazed at seeing someone who posted to the very opening post, without reading through the thread they were posting to so they could better understand why this is not only a good thing Apple did, but WHY they did this.
I have the same issue and I think it was a mistake for Apple to add this in as a feature this late in the IOS game.
These are texts, not medical records. I shouldn't have to confirm deletion of a text when my email provider doesn't even require that.
THEY'RE TEXTS!!!!!
Norm1026 wrote:
I have the same issue and I think it was a mistake for Apple to add this in as a feature this late in the IOS game.
These are texts, not medical records. I shouldn't have to confirm deletion of a text when my email provider doesn't even require that.
THEY'RE TEXTS!!!!!
Just because they are not important to you doesn't mean they are not important to other (lots of other) people.
Submit your feedback to Apple using the feedback link that has already been provided in this thread.
Yes, and people accidentally delete really important ones all the time. It really doesn't matter what you think as this is a user only forum.
If you don't like this (I am grateful Apple finally did this) you can provide your feedback to Apple directly via the link provided throughout the thread. Which you would have seen, had you taken any time to read the thread anyway.
APPLE PLEASE GET RID OF THIS USELESS "FEATURE!"
How many people accidentally slide a message far enough to the left to delete it? Oh and then press "delete" after doing so? My twerking skills are sub sub sub par if this happens more often than I would think.
doc1899 wrote:
APPLE PLEASE GET RID OF THIS USELESS "FEATURE!"
How many people accidentally slide a message far enough to the left to delete it? Oh and then press "delete" after doing so?
Based on the number of posts asking about how to restore deleted messages, quite a few. And, now, those people won't be able to restore them from a back up.
Retain the feature sure. But give those of us who don't need to second guess ourselves the option to turn it off. I think it's a great feature, hands down. And some people probably need to have their device ask them twice if they'd like to delete something. It's like having your dad right there saying; "Son, are you sure?"
Well my dad was an alcoholic that used to like to beat on women. When the time came where I no longer needed his guidance? I turned his *** off. I should have that option on my phone.
Just do a search here for how many times it has happened. And since your finger is on the delete key when you slide it over it isn't that hard to do. Given that Apple has implemented iCloud Messages it isn't going to go back.
doc1899 wrote:
Well my dad was an alcoholic that used to like to beat on women. When the time came where I no longer needed his guidance? I turned his *** off. I should have that option on my phone.
No one is preventing you from deleting texts, blocking people or muting alerts. Rather, a half a second has been added to the deletion process. Nothing one needs to get histrionic about.
So you're ok with the company that built your $1000 phone having ulterior motives in adding that "half second" delay and then telling you no, you can't turn it off?
And your use of the word "histrionic" is contextually irrelevant though it did look cool.
iOS 11.3 - Delete Message Confirmation
