With iOS 16, recipient phone numbers should be easier to classify in the future. There are also new features for the editing and deleting functions.
The Messages app is one of the areas in iOS 16 that Apple is particularly focused on heavily dedicated. Long-awaited functions will be added later with the new iPhone operating system.
New function: Unexpectedly often
The second beta version of iOS 16 now shows a feature that Apple hasn’t even done yet hadn’t announced: The ability to sort iMessages by recipient if you’re running more than one SIM in the device – something that more and more users are doing, for example to separate private and business. For this purpose, a new filter function has been integrated, as Apple states in its beta release notes, which are now freely accessible. It states that the Messages app now allows “customers with a dual SIM iPhone” to “filter messages based on their SIM cards.”
Previously, iMessages sent to different numbers or SIMs go, cheerfully mixed together in the news app, they often end up in the same thread. At first glance, no distinction can be made as to who was written to – the user cannot sort according to importance (business vs. private), only according to the respective sender. In order for this to work, you still have to activate filtering for unknown recipients in the settings. You can then activate various filters in the news app itself and also name them. Apple has been selling dual SIM devices since the iPhone XS. In the beginning, a physical SIM was always combined with an eSIM, since the iPhone 13 it can also be two eSIMs.
Editing and deleting understandable
Probably the two most important new iMessage functions – the Possibility to edit or delete sent messages for up to 15 minutes – has been specified again by Apple. When communicating with devices that are not yet on iOS 16, Apple indicates that “older versions of iOS” still “possibly” display deleted or edited messages as in the original.
Unfortunately, this is missing so far an explicit warning as to whether this is really the case for the respective recipient. Apple could also simply decide to only offer the feature if the communication partner is a person who already has the current operating system version – the group should be able to recognize this without any problems. Activists who work for abuse victims had recently criticized Apple for introducing the function because it could be abused by perpetrators. The company was asked to limit the ability to change and delete to just two minutes.
