Apple filed a patent that would allow its users to edit their sent texts on iMessage.
Apple filed a patent that would allow its users to edit their sent messages on iMessage as well as other possible features that will unveil soon.
This, as the United States Patent and Trademark Office on Thursday, April 30, published a 981-page Apple patent application on its website — including a patent application that would described the features of a messaging UI of a message application that were not present in iOS.
The features of the said patent, as seen in Figure 5 of the US Patent and Trademark Office’s website, would include display private messages, translate foreign language texts, as well as the improvements to Apple’s iMessage.
However, one of the design patents that Apple filed was a feature that would allow its users to edit their messages even if it was already sent — which netizens sought this as an impossible feature to make. According to a design patent, a menu will appear when users opted to long-pressed the message — for senders, the “Edit” button will appear on the menu; for receivers, the “Show Edits” will appear when they long-pressed the sender’s message.
iMessage applications were introduced in Apple’s iOS 10 with some limitations. However, the said patent detailed apps within Messages as well as the new “Application Management Interfaces”.
By improving the applications in Messages as well as the text-editing features, this would allow the company to compete with other messaging apps, including WeChat.
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