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Editing sent messages is not possible so far in any messaging app whether its the classic messages app or the recent online messaging apps like WeChat or WhatsApp, WhatsApp will let you delete a sent message though but can't let you edit the sent message but Apple seems like its working on a method to make users edit the sent messages, the patent was filed on Dec 31, 2019, reported by Apple Insider.
US Patent and Trademarks Office released a patent application filed by Apple which was titled Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Messaging, this patent file which contains 980 pages, and 200,000 words is all about the changes that Apple is trying to make to iMessages.
Besides making editing a sent message possible Apple is also working to add additional features to iMessage like integrating third-party apps with iMessage so that they will be able to work within the app, not just with the app, just like how WeChat integrated several apps which work even within WeChat.
The patent states this about the technology, "[The] application area... includes: an application-input area that displays one or more activatable objects of a first application, and an application-selection area that includes: a plurality of scrollable application-selection affordances."
Apple also mentioned how the current messaging apps are limited in the patent, "But current messaging applications have numerous drawbacks and limitations. For example, they are limited in their ability to easily: acknowledge messages; edit previously sent messages; express what a user is trying to communicate; display private messages; synchronize viewing of content between users; incorporate handwritten inputs."
Apple didn't mention what technology it uses to make this possible in the patent but they explained how a user can use this feature to edit messages, according to the patent, "The first message can be edited, despite the fact that it has already been sent. To initiate the editing of the first message, the user selects the first message with a predefined touch input (e.g., a tap gesture, long press gesture, light press gesture, or deep press gesture) on the first message or the message region for the first message.
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Editing sent messages is not possible so far in any messaging app whether its the classic messages app or the recent online messaging apps like WeChat or WhatsApp, WhatsApp will let you delete a sent message though but can't let you edit the sent message but Apple seems like its working on a method to make users edit the sent messages, the patent was filed on Dec 31, 2019, reported by Apple Insider.
US Patent and Trademarks Office released a patent application filed by Apple which was titled Devices, Methods, and Graphical User Interfaces for Messaging, this patent file which contains 980 pages, and 200,000 words is all about the changes that Apple is trying to make to iMessages.
Besides making editing a sent message possible Apple is also working to add additional features to iMessage like integrating third-party apps with iMessage so that they will be able to work within the app, not just with the app, just like how WeChat integrated several apps which work even within WeChat.
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The patent states this about the technology, "[The] application area... includes: an application-input area that displays one or more activatable objects of a first application, and an application-selection area that includes: a plurality of scrollable application-selection affordances."
Apple also mentioned how the current messaging apps are limited in the patent, "But current messaging applications have numerous drawbacks and limitations. For example, they are limited in their ability to easily: acknowledge messages; edit previously sent messages; express what a user is trying to communicate; display private messages; synchronize viewing of content between users; incorporate handwritten inputs."
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Apple didn't mention what technology it uses to make this possible in the patent but they explained how a user can use this feature to edit messages, according to the patent, "The first message can be edited, despite the fact that it has already been sent. To initiate the editing of the first message, the user selects the first message with a predefined touch input (e.g., a tap gesture, long press gesture, light press gesture, or deep press gesture) on the first message or the message region for the first message.
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