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It’s two step because of the supposed non beta release of Messages in the Cloud, which didn’t happen. When you delete a thread you get a pop up that for deleting this conversation, or about deleting the conversation from all devices (Messages in the Cloud). Maybe this could change in 11.4
Anyone know a way to turn off two step deletion in Messages? Just showed up with iOS 11.3.
Since upgrading to 11.3 I’ve noticed that to delete an iMessage or Text instead of just a simple swipe and tap RED DELETE, you get an extra pop up from below asking “Do you really want to delete this conversation?”. Kind of slows things down. Not a major issue but why add now? Apple Support pushed to multiple advisors cause nobody knew anything about it.
As far as I know it was always there. Even on previous iOS versions.
It’s not...or maybe it was option. My girlfriend is on 11.2.6 still and is sitting right next to me and she doesn’t have to do it.
Apple Support said it is new to 11.3 and cannot current be turned off.
But it’s funny, I only called because I couldn’t remember if it was always there or something new. It felt new, but also like it could have been there. All signs point to it being new.
It is new to 11.3. When beta 1 of 11.3 was released with iMessage in iCloud, this extra step was added. iMessage in iCloud didn’t make it the final release of 11.3, but the extra step stayed.
It’s slightly annoying but I feel like it will save my life 2-3 times so I’ll accept it and forgive Apple for not asking permission from its customers.
It’s slightly annoying but I feel like it will save my life 2-3 times so I’ll accept it and forgive Apple for not asking permission from its customers.
That’s just it: Apple doesn’t need permission to do anything. However, what they do need is feedback (https://www.apple.com/feedback/#mn_p) to let them know how their users think about stuff.
As far as I know it was always there. Even on previous iOS versions.