iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see light of day (2018)

Re:iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see... by oarsinsync on Thursday June 04, 2020 @03:31AM (#23413711)

The whole point is to be about your social circle. If 90% of my social circle is on iPhone, they're on iMessage.

What the rest of the world outside of my social circle does isn't really relevant to my conversations inside my social circle.

I've run up against this reality multiple times. I personally prefer signal & whatsapp for group chats than iMessage. If only because I can mute them and not get an annoying red bubble telling me about the hundreds of messages I'm trying to not react to in real time when I'm busy.

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Re:iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see... by jedieaston on Thursday June 04, 2020 @10:19AM (#23416840)

If you tap on the info button in Messages, you can click "Hide Alerts", which works fine for me.

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Re:iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see... by oarsinsync on Thursday June 04, 2020 @12:15PM (#23418484)

That doesn't stop the red counter bubble from appearing and incrementing on the messages app, sadly.

Whereas a muted group chat in whatsapp is completely muted, unless someone explicitly @tags you in a message or explicitly replies to your message (another feature iMessage group chats lacks - tagging specific people, and explicit/contextual replies to specific messages)

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Re:iMessage for Windows: A labor of love that will never see... by snazz on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:58AM (#23418301)

Swipe a conversation in Messages and tap Hide Alerts.

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