How can you disable the new "edit" feature in Messages

Thank you for joining this discussion, Motick01.

Yes. You would have read the edited message, and then by clicking "edited" you would have seen the original "send" as it was before it was edited. So we see only what is actually sent after editing, unless we want to investigate what it was they edited. (Those with the newer iOS versions, may see things displayed a little differently than others using earlier iOS versions.)

The linked article in the "Best Reply" at the top of the discussion gives more details about using the message-editing feature. The feature can not be turned off, yet it can be ignored, and / or not used.

Hi brad300,

welcome to the Apple (user-to-user) Community!

Re: New iMessage “Edit” feature : how can you disable the new "edit" feature?

Seems you can not disable the new edit feature, yet neither is it compulsory to use it.

Apple support's article: Unsend and edit messages on iPhone - Apple Support

spells out how it works.

All the best :-)

Hi alizaye,

Seems a message sent before editing would already be received, and likely viewed, just like any other message. Any editing is done after that, at a later moment.

Perhaps you see the situation differently. We are all Apple users like yourself in the community, so no-one here can change features. You may want to send a feature request to those who work behind-the-scenes at Apple, using a feedback form.

For iPhone or iPad: Feedback - Messages for iOS and iPadOS - Apple

or

For Mac: Feedback - Messages - Apple

others & ourselves should not be able to see the message that was edited if the message is edited users and the other person on the other side of the phone should not be able to see the message that edited therefore i would like the edited feature to not show the message that was edited please and thank you in advanced

That's a terrible idea. To see what one was thinking or considering before deciding to send a message. You might have an incendiary thougth about an issue but upon further consideration change it before hitting the send button.

As for unsending a message why would you even think of that if what you actually did send was the edited/cleaned up version of the message? So if I reply to someone initially with the words 'you're being a jerk about this' but edit it to say 'that's not the best option here'. They can still see my first thought?

Why would Apple ever think this is a good idea? What is the value of this option anyway?

Seems you can write and edit anything you like before you hit the send button, and the receiver only reads what is actually sent.

The message-editing feature we are discussing is about editing a message that has already been sent, when you need to change something.

Must Austrailians be up all night? ha

I got a text message with the word 'edited' in small blue letters beneath it. Clicking on that showed what they had typed and edited before sending or had 'undone'. So I was able to read their original text.

I will find the right forum for this issue. I was replying to this item:

New iMessage “Edit” feature

how can you disable the new "edit" feature? when typing in imessage, you make changes/"edits" & send or you go back to existing text & edit it. Then receiver can click "edit" in blue & sees what you changed. OMG, I don’t want receiver to see that edit. Who wants that?! I know I can turn off iMessage completely but I don’t want to do that. Among other reasons, I like the unsend messages.

AlexNetto wrote:

Yeah. The fact that the recipient still can see the unedited message turns this feature into something useless. My opinion.

It can be quite useful if you make a typo that makes your message ambiguous. It doesn't appear to be intended to retract something you said or make it appear that you didn't say something you actually said.

Yeah. The fact that the recipient still can see the unedited message turns this feature into something useless. My opinion.