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ryandrake on Aug 9, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: “It’s time for Apple to fix texting”

You can still tell whether it is an iMessage or text message without replying and observing the color. Long-press on the incoming message. If the menu shows: Reply, Copy, Translate, More… then it is an iMessage. If the menu shows: Copy, Translate, More… then it is a text.

MarkSweep on Aug 10, 2022 | [–]

The text input box will also say whether it is a text message or iMessage before you start typing anything.

y2bd on Aug 9, 2022 | [–]

That's cool, didn't know that Apple didn't try to somehow shoehorn threads into SMS (like they currently do extremely poorly with tapbacks and stickers)

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