iOS 16’s editable iMessages may not play nice with older iPhones
by Jon Porter from The Verge - All Posts on (#60P4H)
How edited messages are supposed to look. | Image: Apple The ability to edit and unsend messages was one of the flagship features of iOS 16 announced earlier this month, but the functionality may not work well if you're messaging anyone who's not using the latest version of Apple's software. The latest iOS developer beta 16 includes a messy workaround to allow newly editable iMessages to be received on iPhones without iOS 16, 9to5Mac reports. It could prove annoying for anyone in an iMessage group chat using an older iPhone or Android.
Rather than simply seeing the edited version of a message, if someone running iOS 16's second beta tries to edit an iMessage sent to a device with an older version of the software, then the latter will receive the edit as a second text, preceded by the words...