How to edit and unsend iMessages on your iPhone, iPad, or Mac - Macworld

One of the champion caller features of iOS 16, iPadOS 16, and macOS Ventura is the quality to either edit oregon callback messages that person already been sent. Not lone could this prevention you embarrassment erstwhile calling a enactment workfellow an accidentally amorous name, but could besides springiness you a mode retired if you nonstop the incorrect idiosyncratic the incorrect message. Here’s however to edit oregon callback sent messages connected an iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

How to unsend a message

To callback a message, it needs to beryllium an iMessage successful a bluish bubble. Tap and clasp the sent substance bubble (iPhone oregon iPad) oregon right-click (Mac) until you spot the options paper appear. Select Undo Send and the connection volition beryllium deleted from the recipient’s provender arsenic good arsenic yours.

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This diagnostic is lone disposable for up to 2 minutes aft the connection was sent. When a connection is unsent, it’s removed from some the recipient and sender, with a enactment indicating that an unsend occurred.

Unsent messages cannot beryllium recovered. This is antithetic from the regular deletion of messages, which removes it from your iMessage past and places it successful a caller Recently Deleted section. Messages successful Recently Deleted (where they tin beryllium recovered) enactment for 30 days and past they are automatically deleted.

How to edit a sent message

If you find that you’ve sent a connection that’s got an embarrassing misspelled word, each is not lost. The caller iMessage editing diagnostic successful iOS 16 and iPadOS 16 tin beryllium a lifesaver.

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Simply long-press connected the sent connection (iPhone oregon iPad) oregon right-click (Mac) and hold for the options paper to appear, conscionable similar with the Undo Send diagnostic above. The 1 you’re aft this clip is Edit. Tap this and you’ll beryllium capable to interact with the substance successful the message.

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Highlight the unwanted connection oregon words, regenerate them with what you meant to say, and the substance volition beryllium corrected. For afloat disclosure, determination volition beryllium a notification nether the bubble that says Delivered – Edited. Both you and the recipient tin pat connected this to spot anterior edits.

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One happening to note: You tin lone edit a connection wrong 15 minutes of sending it, and you tin lone marque 5 edits to a azygous connection earlier the enactment disappears. More than that and you’ll conscionable person to nonstop a follow-up substance with an apology.

Will it enactment connected older devices?

Ideally, the recipient should besides beryllium moving an iPhone oregon iPad with iOS 16.iPadOS 16 and a Mac with Ventura. If they are, editing volition enactment arsenic described. But if you effort to edit a connection sent to idiosyncratic connected an older mentation of iOS/iPadOS oregon macOS (or adjacent an Android idiosyncratic participating successful a radical iMessage chat), an wholly caller connection prefixed with “Edited to” followed by the caller message, portion inactive leaving the original, perchance embarrassing, connection successful the recipient’s inbox.

Author: Martyn Casserly, Contributor