- You’ll be able to edit textual content messages on your iPhone for up to quarter-hour after sending.
- To edit a textual content message on your iPhone, faucet and maintain your finger on it and choose “Edit.”
- This characteristic is new in iOS 16, and it is solely accessible on iPhones which have the newest replace.
Even with autocorrect turned on, it is simple to make typos when texting. That is why a brand new iPhone characteristic enables you to edit texts even after you ship them, so nobody has to see your fumble-fingered messages.
Here is how to use it.
How to edit textual content messages on your iPhone
Earlier than something, be aware that you could solely edit iMessages — in different phrases, texts despatched to different Apple units, which seem on your machine in blue bubbles. It does not work with SMS messages, the sort that non-Apple telephones like Android use, which ship inside inexperienced bubbles.
To edit a textual content message that you’ve got despatched, faucet and maintain your finger on the message. Within the menu that seems, faucet Edit.
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You may now have the option to edit the textual content of the message nonetheless you need — you simply cannot erase your entire factor. Whenever you’re completed with it, faucet the checkmark icon to save and ship it once more. The brand new model of your message will substitute the unique on each machine you are texting.
You’ll be able to edit messages for up to quarter-hour after sending them. After that time, the Edit possibility will disappear.
Anybody that you simply’re texting will see the phrase Edited seem beneath your new message. In the event that they faucet it, they’re going to have the option to see the unique textual content and all of the edited variations you have made.
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What occurs in the event you edit a textual content to somebody who does not have iOS 16?
Above we talked about that you could’t edit texts despatched to somebody who does not have iMessage. However even in the event you’re iMessaging somebody, the edit characteristic nonetheless will not work except they’ve up to date their units.
For enhancing to work, the individual (or individuals) you are texting want to have iOS 16 on their very own iPhone, iPadOS 16 on their iPad, or macOS Ventura on their Mac.
In the event that they have not up to date their machine, you will nonetheless see the choice to edit your textual content. However as an alternative of your new edited message changing the outdated one, it’s going to simply ship as a completely new message, prefaced with the phrases Edited to.
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