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.
Why don't you read the post immediately above yours?
A bug report is pointless. It isn't a bug. A bug is something that doesn't work the way it was designed. Message delete is working exactly as it was designed.
This feature was most likely added because many people every day accidentally delete messages that they didn't mean to, then find out there is no way to ever recover them. And, believe it or not, there is more than one opinion on this subject. See, for example, PLEASE FIX HOW EASY IT IS TO DELETE MESAGES
Apparently you didn't read the thread you posted in.
Now that iCloud syncing of messages means that if you delete messages on one device, they are deleted on all devices AND they are not longer included in your back up, Apple wants to make sure that you don't delete messages accidentally.
The message delete confirmation is SO ANNOYING! No means to disable this confrirmation in settings is even MORE OBNOXIOUS! Come on Apple! Please provide users with the ability to TURN OFF these Ridiculous confirmation messages!! Grrrrr. Not happy, once again with Apple’s implementation of new features. Not well thought out from a user’s perspective!
Husky8 wrote:
The message delete confirmation is SO ANNOYING! No means to disable this confrirmation in settings is even MORE OBNOXIOUS! Come on Apple! Please provide users with the ability to TURN OFF these Ridiculous confirmation messages!! Grrrrr. Not happy, once again with Apple’s implementation of new features. Not well thought out from a user’s perspective!
Never gonna happen.
GB
I'm glad to see a community that hates this feature as much as I do as well.
Not sure the 1000s of community members hate it as much as the dozens of short attention span visitors who come here with a single "me-too" contribution, and not understanding that those 1000s of community members aren't affected by their short-sighted and myopic opinions.
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Yes, they are texts. Which are admissible as evidence in court proceedings if on the original device. That can prove or disprove infidelity, or support alibis. That are commitments from businesses and relatives. The are final communications from loved ones (intentional or otherwise). That are suicide notes. Not everyone uses text messages exclusively for drivel. And once deleted there is no way to ever get them back. Over the past several years we've been running 5 to 10 posts a day from people who accidentally deleted texts, and are devastated that they can't recover them. One that sticks in my mind was the last post from a child killed in an auto accident. It was drivel when send, but had much more significance after the fact. So that may be why Apple added this valuable feature. Along with the fact that if you enable message syncing in iOS 11.4 they can't even be recovered from backups.
Batterista wrote:
If you have only one message to delete. ANNOYING when you have to delete multiples!
OMG - if you have to delete multiple messages, why wouldn't you just tap Edit (once), tap each message you want to deleted (1 tap for each message), and then tap the trash can.
So, if you were deleting, say, 10 messsages, you would tap one tap for Edit, ten taps for selection, and one tap for trash. A total of 12 taps.
If you were to delete those 10 messages the "old" way, it would take 1 tap to slide to the left, and one tap to delete each of the 10 mesages. So, a total of 20 taps.
With the new verification, you tap one tap to slide to left, one tap to delete, and one tap to verify deletion for each of the 10 messages. So a total of 30 taps.
So, you are grousing about 10 extra taps, when you have never even used a method that allows you to accomplish the same exercise in a measly 12 taps as opposed to your (original) 20 taps.
If saving nanoseconds of time is that critical to you, then it would be a good idea to figure out where you are wasting those nanoseconds by using inferior methods for achieving the same ends.
Best,
GB
How "unfluid" (sic) do you think it will be if you accidentally delete one that you need? Do you plan on using iCloud messages?
Tell Apple you are annoyed: Feedback - iPhone - Apple but given that the change was made as they were implementing iCloud messages I would not hold your breath for a change.
dude996tt wrote:
I wonder if Apple even looks at these request? It can’t hurt to try. I sent the below this a.m.
“As you well know by now, the software update 11.4.1 requires one to swipe, then delete, and then delete again. This a useless, annoying feature that *****. What next, are they going to require the user to add their Apple ID to delete. This is a stupid feature and we should have control to turn off.”
No. Apple does not monitor the post here for problems for engineering. The only they check is for violations of the Terms Of Usage.
Because daily, until Apple made this change, people came here daily crying they accidentally deleted an important message and needed to get them back. And when Apple moved messages to the cloud, deleting a message on one device, meant they would be deleted on EVERY device. You may think this is poor programming, but to me, who has tried to help those people get an important message back, this was a very smart move.
Well you see, it really doesn't matter if you don't like this or I do like it. This is a user to user only forum and Apple isn't here, nor reading these posts. Had you bothered to read past the first post you replied to, you'd have seen that the only way for you to tell Apple how you feel is to provide feedback via the link that has been posted over and over and over again. Apple won't respond to you, but your message will be read. I wouldn't expect Apple will change this though as it has helped a lot people. And the extra half a second it takes you to confirm you do want to delete a message is what we call a first world problem.
To provide feedback to Apple visit Feedback - iPhone - Apple
apple please remove the confirmation feature or allow us to turn this feature off.
Feedback for Apple goes here >>> http://apple.com/feedback
Why not tell Apple instead of us users? You don't have a bad idea. But Apple won't know about it for posting on this user to user only forum. Provide feedback to Apple: Feedback - iPhone - Apple
twherry wrote:
I agree! remove confirmation or at least give us the option to turn it off.
No one here can make that happen. Let Apple know what what't you'd like to see:
iOS 11.3 - Delete Message Confirmation
