Saturday 30 July 2022 07:11 AM
While messaging apps like Signal, WhatsApp, and Viber have some versions of “delete for everyone” after sending, there was nothing you could do about it on iMessage, but in the iOS 16 beta, Apple introduced a feature for its iMessage chat app, letting you Unsend and edit a sent message if the recipient is also on iOS 16, iPadOS 16, or macOS Ventura.
According to the verge, here are the steps to follow in case of deleting or modifying the message:
Simple steps to delete the message
• Long press on the message.
• In the drop-down menu, tap Undo Send.
• The message will disappear immediately.
If you have updated the first public beta, you are allowed 15 minutes to unsend your message, however, if you have installed the second public beta, this has been changed to 2 minutes.
Simple steps to edit the message
• Long press on the message.
• In the drop-down list, click Edit.
• Edit your message and click the check mark to the right of the message to send the correction.
• If you want to see all the edits you’ve made, click the small editor link at the bottom of the message, and you can then click Hide Edits to see only the last message.
You also have more time to edit a message which is a full 15 minutes, but if you long press on your message after 15 minutes have passed, the edit option will not be in the menu.
However the second public beta added a new limitation:
While you can edit this message as many times as you like in the first public beta, you can now edit it only up to five times; After that, the edit option disappears in the drop-down menu.
Also, neither option works if the recipient is using an earlier version of the operating system.
Source: Technology: How to do it.. How to edit or cancel sending an iMessage in iOS 16