iOS 11.3 - Delete Message Confirmation

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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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.

How do I recover deleted messages?

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

Bonhamet wrote:

If I may join the choir.

Honestly, the choir is too full of people off key already.

If you have an opinion about an Apple product, tell Apple. They're the only ones who can make any changes.

Product Feedback - Apple

igniter813 wrote:

I just spoke to Apple tech support and they said this is not an issue with series 3. Why wouldn't they fix it for all series I stead of just the newer one. That's *****.

Either the person who told you that made a mistake or you misunderstood. iCloud message syncing is only available (at the time of this writing) for iPads, iPhones and Macs. See Apple's own support document:

Keep all your messages in iCloud - Apple Support

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.

I did use the link to tell apple https://www.apple.com/feedback/iphone.html

And you are taking this way to personal. Chill today will end and tomorrow will come. Is there a solution to the problem that I didn’t see? I’m not going to read through 90 pages of forum to find the solution.

MaltyMatt wrote:

I did use the link to tell apple https://www.applei.com/feedback/iphone.html

And you are taking this way to personal. Chill today will end and tomorrow will come. Is there a solution to the problem that I didn’t see? I’m not going to read through 90 pages of forum to find the solution.

Apple did this to help the literally THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of posters who are not as perfect as you. People come here daily begging us to find a path back to a very important text message. Unless they backed up before they deleted the message, there is no path. So Apple, like Android has done since day one, finally made the decision to ensure people get a warning to confirm they really do want to delete a message. Smart.

But here's your solution. If you don't like the confirm to delete, you can bypass this altogether (which you'd have learned had you read this thread) by choosing Edit as opposed to swiping to delete. Tap Edit, then tap the circle on the left, then the trash can. Voila, message deleted without the need to confirm.

Well that wasn't very inclusive of you IdrisSeabright. Perhaps you might consider that the more people that complain, the more likely the big A will do something.

The only Apple employees reading these posts on a regular basis are the forum hosts. They read the posts to make sure they don't violate the terms of use. That's all they have time to do. Apple has created a specific place for you to provide feedback:

Product Feedback - Apple

Perhaps you might consider that the more people that complain, the more likely the big A will do something.

If you want to Apple seeing "more people" complaining, then follow the advice given over and over and over again - tell Apple, and stop wasting our time: Apple - Feedback.

The TOU of this forum are quite clear about prohibiting rants, discussions of Apple policies or procedures, or speculation on Apple decisions. You should post constructive comments and questions. Unless otherwise noted, your Submission should either be a technical support question or a technical support answer. You can read the TOU here: Apple Support Communities Use Agreement - Apple Community

GB

If you are using iCloud Syncing for Messages, those messages are gone. There is no way to get them back.

If you are not using syncing and you have a back up that contains the messages, you can restore your phone from that back up. Note that doing so will overwrite everything currently on the phone.

Restore your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch from a backup - Apple Support

To those who (like the last poster who's post was in violation of the TOU for this forum, thus the post was removed) say they are going Android. You can go Android if you want and honestly, none of us actually care if you do. Since I didn't really know how Android handles text deletion, I thought it would be interesting to see. This is the process on an Android phone:

Of course this is probably what drove this little nugget. I can only imagine someone having a meltdown at a club after inadvertently deleting that text they wanted to save forever.

And probably someone who had some pull got it into the development cycle without any attention to UX, despite the fact it is wholly inconsistent behavior with at least three apps (and that's without looking for any others), and extremely poor behavior.

• Visual voicemail
• Notes
• Mail

Add it as an option like they do in Mail, or perhaps let people have a 'keep deleted messages for x days' or 'delete immediately' option in prefs.

But no, someone had some pull. More than anything it's THIS that feels like Android.

If you took the time (which you didn't) to read the thread, you'd see:

1. A link to let Apple know what you think was provided
2. This is a user to user only forum, so telling us what you think is pointless
3. The reason Apple did this was to help the many many many people who accidentally delete text messages EVERY day and to the forum to ask us regulars how they can get them back (most of the time, they can't). And yes, I along with most the people who are here daily helping these people think this is great and was much needed.
4. You don't have to use the swipe to delete a text message, thus you can avoid the confirmation

You can express your opinion. I certainly did, but for very valid reasons. I think helping people is a good thing, which is why I spend a lot of time helping users with real problems. I hardly think having to confirm (again ONLY if you use swipe to delete) you want to delete a text message is such a horrible thing for most people. And yes, Android has always made you do this.

I must admit this thread has gotten my ire the most of all threads. And that's because (you're not alone) people like you who have never posted on the forum, who likely just joined because you want to agree you don't like this one new featuer, who will likely never try to help others (the real purpose of these discussion forums) and who couldn't be bothered to read past the first post to see if maybe there is some reason they could learn about a new feature and how it might benefit anyone. That doesn't mean you have to like it. Just understand there are other people on this planet who also have needs and maybe, just maybe, this will help them.

So, rmbohnhoff, this is why I said it's a much needed feature.

I'm actually on a time out, but just felt I could help you.

Based on the number of text messages you're deleting, I propose you're doing it a way that takes more time, even if there wasn't a confirm to delete. Given the way you're doing it, you would:

1. Open Message App
2. Swipe Left on Message
3. Tap Delete
4. Repeat for each message

This way would be much faster and there is NO confirm to delete, because Apple provided the best of both worlds for folks, just like you.

1. Open Message App
2. Tap Edit
3. Mark all messages you want to delete (no need to swipe anything and you can mark multiple messages at once)
4. Tap Delete and there is no confirm to delete and voila, all selected messages are deleted