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.
doc1899 wrote:
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.
Ulterior motives? You mean helping people avoid deleting texts with a very simple and oh so not time consuming confirm you really want to delete the message? If those are ulterior motives, I've clearly missed the meaning of ulterior motives all these years. I see this as nothing but helpful. Helpful to the people who accidentally delete text messages EVERY single day. Helpful to people like me and the other people like me who come here daily to help those people see if they may be able to retrieve those important messages.
This is what apple does, they come up with these silly annoying little features, then when the new iPhone comes out, they make new and improved changes so you buy the new iphone, just a money making sche
doc1899 wrote:
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.
What "ulterior motives" might those be, exactly?
And how is the use of "histrionic" in the sentence "Nothing one needs to get histrionic about" contextually irrelevant. It is completely relevant, since the level of indignation regarding this step is completely out of proportion to the thing itself - i.e., we have a lot of melodrama going on here - hyperbole as well as angst.
GB
App101231 wrote:
This is what apple does, they come up with these silly annoying little features, then when the new iPhone comes out, they make new and improved changes so you buy the new iphone, just a money making sche
Huh?! that makes no sense at all.
Lawrence Finch wrote:
App101231 wrote:
This is what apple does, they come up with these silly annoying little features, then when the new iPhone comes out, they make new and improved changes so you buy the new iphone, just a money making sche
Huh?! that makes no sense at all.
Nope. Makes less than no sense. The reality is if people are truly getting this worked up over something so simple, they're not going to buy a new iPhone, which will have the same "silly annoying little features." No, they'll buy another platform, like Android. But Android has required this "silly annoying little feature" since like forever. This is one place where Apple caught up to Android.
It makes perfect sense. What I’m saying is that they get rid of those annoying little features when creating the next iPhone and call it an upgrade so you buy the latest iPhone. It’s their scheme to make more money.
App101231 wrote:
It makes perfect sense. What I’m saying is that they get rid of those annoying little features when creating the next iPhone and call it an upgrade so you buy the latest iPhone. It’s their scheme to make more money.
That's total utter nonsense. And this "annoying little feature" is going nowhere and for very good reason. Pity you can't possibly look past your nose to see the benefit it provides so many people.
mollyfrompurchase wrote:
What a hugely disappointing example of messing with UX. One interaction to three...?! Fail.
Did you bother to read the thread to understand why Apple made the change? No?!?! .... Fail.
mollyfrompurchase wrote:
What a hugely disappointing example of messing with UX. One interaction to three...?! Fail.
Not realizing that there are dozens (no, hundreds) of posts like the one below...?! Fail.
mollyfrompurchase wrote:
What a hugely disappointing example of messing with UX. One interaction to three...?! Fail.
Please explain from your experience, how it went from one interaction to three to begin with? Perhaps the fail is your inability to count?
So, let's see how this changed things:
1. Open Messages App (Step One)
2. Select Message to Delete (Step Two)
3. Swipe to bring up Delete or Hide Alerts (Step Three)
4. Tap Delete (Step 4)
5. Now here's where it gets life altering different: Tap Confirm to Delete (Step 5)
If you had bothered to read any of this thread you would know that there is a reason for this. This is a support forum, not a place to vent your issues with Apple. If you wish to share your thoughts with them, do so here: Product Feedback - Apple. Posting it here is pointless.
GB
It’s an engineer who decided it was a cool feature and doesn’t understand how quickly we want to delete crap.
I see a lot of dumb and ill-informed statements here. This one is going in to my hall of fame.
LACAllen wrote:
It’s an engineer who decided it was a cool feature and doesn’t understand how quickly we want to delete crap.
I see a lot of dumb and ill-informed statements here. This one is going in to my hall of fame.
Yup.
IdrisSeabright wrote:
LACAllen wrote:
It’s an engineer who decided it was a cool feature and doesn’t understand how quickly we want to delete crap.
I see a lot of dumb and ill-informed statements here. This one is going in to my hall of fame.
Yup.
Thrice Yup!
LACAllen wrote:
It’s an engineer who decided it was a cool feature and doesn’t understand how quickly we want to delete crap.
I see a lot of dumb and ill-informed statements here. This one is going in to my hall of fame.
Yup Yup. Yup. Yup.
Some people have no concept of how any large company works. Engineers NEVER make decisions about anything. They do what Marketing, Human Factors, User Experience, Sales and other higher level organizations dictate. And every design change is reviewed through many levels of management. No engineer has ever decided something was a cool feature and implemented it on their own. And there is a very good reason for every change. No changes are made as whims, except by Steve Jobs, and he hasn't had any whims in quite a while that he made known to anyone.
iOS 11.3 - Delete Message Confirmation
