…wait what?
I’m pretty tech savvy and had no idea I could edit a text…
Yes, am millennial… Lol
SMS messages, you can’t (without two same apps with extensions).
RCS messages, you can.
These days, SMS and RCS messaging just come under the banner of “text messaging”. It’s pretty handy to be fair, blows MMS out of the water anyway.
Google Messages doesn’t seem to have an edit button despite specifically using “RCS message” as the placeholder text.
There’s apparently a 15 minute window to edit
How many people even remember MMS these days
I do! I also remember using WAP to read the news. Well, my first venture on the internet was December 24 1994, so I am old…
Curious, why do you remember day 1 for you?
I don’t know mine. I do remember sitting in my kitchen at the family computer listening to the modem connect via an AOL disc though. Sometime in the late 90s if I had to guess.
Apparently in 1998 half of all cds produced worldwide had an AOL logo on them. Wild.
Because my 15 year older brother got it for Christmas for the family that year. We open gifts on the 24th, which if why I remember it.
A wireless access point? People still use them all the time… (also old here)
nah, Wireless Application Protocol - a way of serving web pages that was very similar to the HyperCard technology of the time.
Ah, the memories of checking football scores on a Nokia 3330 in school playgrounds…
Oh yeah, that. I didn’t have a mobile then so almost completely missed that even existing, but now it does sound familiar having been dredged up from the depths of my memory.
Holy. Fuck. I didn’t think of that 🤣
This post is a millennial trap, so I’d think most people here?
I know one person still using MMS, because they refuse to get a Internet capable cellphone.
There is one phone in our family that can send them SMS, everyone else gets error messages. How is that even possible? I thought SMS are standardized.MMS is no longer universally supported among carriers
And nothing of value was lost.
Fine by me, but why can’t I send them SMS?
Missed that. Which side gets the error? The sender? Must be carrier weirdness.
Alternatively, they opted in for RCS somewhere somehow but they don’t have an online RCS client so RCS capable senders get errors unless you explicitly set the app to send SMS only to this person
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All of me.
What are some apps that support RCS? I’d prefer to keep Google, Apple, etc off my device.
Not a lot because you need something that supports what your carrier use and there’s no userspace API exposed for it
The only options are Samsung, Google, and Apples messaging apps. Every carrier uses Google implementation of it and they have not created an open api for other apps to use it.
Even if a third party app supported it, it’d still be completely reliant on Googles RCS services.
Depends on the message. You can’t really edit an SMS.
I thought you could on Apple
Blue bubbles aren’t sms
It’s probably not actually an SMS if it’s apple to apple messaging, you’re probably using imessage.
Editing a SMS only works between two "smart"phones. Me, I see a second message starting with EDIT, and yes, I can see the previous shit you sent me forever.
Sending a Correction is literally so much easier!
To edit message you probably have to long press on it, select Edit, then select the part of text to edit (which is famously easy on mobile /s) then erase and rewrite. There’s no point putting this much effort into a chat message! There’s a reason people don’t capitalise or use punctuation in those.
Sorry I’m with the millennial on this one (being a millennial and a tech savvy person myself).
I’m a millennial and I strongly prefer editing. It’s much easier on the recipient not to have to cross-reference your correction with your message, and it usually doesn’t result in a separate notification ping.
Notification ping? You guys don’t keep your phone on silent?
You just outed yourself as a boomer 😂
My phone vibrates for text messages, but even if it doesn’t there’s no need for two notifications in the tray if a simple edit is possible.
Also I’m talking about the recipient, not myself. I don’t know what their settings are necessarily.
I prefer editing if and only if the recipient can see the edit history.
But clearly you start with the asterisk
No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.
This is the way.
I’ve always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it’s easier for me to type that way.
Asterisk starts a bullet list in a lot of richtext fields that use markdown
I’m GenZ but the millennial has a point
I am millennial, and I prefer to edit. That said, I feel like people are less likely to notice the edit than they are an additional message.
Also creates the occasional “I could swear that said something different when I first read it…”
I’ve taken to editing my messages to strike through removals and [edit: italicize] additions/corrections, if I think it could cause confusion.
I like this kind of editing better than the normal type. Feels more fair
GenX here, I second the morality of editing texts.
You can edit a text? Hmmm.
I just checked, you cannot. One is a group RCS chat, the other is an RCS chat with just a single person. Neither allowed edits. I even check one with a friend where it’s an SMS only, no edit.
So it seems like it’s app specific and not texts.
I’m sure it’s illegal in several jurisdictions.
Why edit and pretend to be perfect? A quick * shows everyone you’re smart enough to spot and fix mistakes *^_^
I could edit, but what if the edit doesn’t show up at the other end? I couldn’t live with that.
If I mispelled antidisestablishmentarianism, I’m not fucking rewriting the whole god damn word – I’m just editting.
If I mispell butts it gets and asterisk.
Edit: an*
I’m also a millennial and I was taught how to use a computer so of course I edit my messages.
Feel blessed that you never had to deal with drama from someone kicking off that a message no longer says what it used to.
Im surprised lemmy let’s you edit the title of posts you make. I appreciate it though as a mistake prone mess of a man. I’ve only seen one post use this feature maliciously so far so its a good run thus far.
Got a guy in my group chat (all millennials) who refuses to edit and also follows up with cursing at sleep
Slope
Dammit, swept
Mutha frucking swipe!
Literally half his messages are like that
I don’t bother to correct it unless the person on the other side is mentally deficient or a grammar nazi.
“too lazy to swap apps”? huh?
The text messaging software that came with my android phone doesn’t allow text editing.
I still do that way. I don’t plan to stop.
