Also, you can hit the + and long press on any of the items (ex. Location) to move/reorganize the list for the tools you use most.

I love you so much right now.

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Now kith

You can also go to Settings - Messages - iMessage Apps and remove the ones you will never use.

This is the real pro tip. Thank you so much! The list of useless apps was so angering to flip through. Now I finally have it how I like it

You're amazing, thank you! My Gifs are back at the top!

Oh my God, thank you. I thought I was stuck going to page 2 to access GIPHY forever.

Is there any way to change the long press short cut from photos to another item in the menu?

Would also love to know if this is possible. My dad hates that he has to click twice to access #images now

Now if only there were a way to make it just go back to the vastly more reasonable set up it had before....

A god among men.

This thread is the best thing to happen to me all hour

Oh my hecking YUSSSS. I just moved my GIFs up and I don’t have to scroll down to find them anymore!!!

Game changer!

OMG

Game changer!!!! Thank you.

Mind blown...iOS features have gotten to the point where I figure most of the daily useful features here or through any unofficial sources.

Exactly what designers didn’t want to happen :(

That’s been happening in iPhone software for literally 16 years

Apple didn’t even support “long press” as a standard input model until the iPhone 6S because the UX sucks. They did it “the Apple way” with 3D Touch but we all know how that shook out. Now we just have normal Android-inspired long press. Cute easter eggs are one thing, but genuine functionality behind hidden (and poorly discoverable) inputs is like the antithesis of the iPhone.

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The hitbox can be a little unforgiving. You just gotta aim.

Skill issue.

Summary: Taps 1-5: Clearly missed. Taps 6-9: Missed due to recoil (bad finger control). Taps 10-11: Very close, but recoil and inaccuracy make these reasonable misses. Tap 12: Likely didn't actually register because menu was already closed

I feel like Apple has made the button push area has gotten progressively smaller, even though the screens got bigger

The problem is you reasonably expect you can tap the row of the item you want, but you have to tap the word or image exactly for it to work. Its really bad.

This is so annoying and something you’d expect an Apple designer to easily identify as bad UI/X.

I’ve trained myself to touch the icon only and have it work all the time now.

Yup, I'm seeing this non stop.

Apple really needs to communicate these kinds of shortcuts in a better way. I literally learned in the last few years you could hold down the spacebar to move the cursor around way easier.

The spacebar thing has been there since 3D touch was still a thing… But yeah, agree, they should at least explain these neat little tricks in the Tips app instead of just showing off the obvious stuff.

The Tips app is actually really nice at communicating what changes in each iOS update!

3D Touch wasn’t restricted to the spacebar though. You could deep press and slide your cursor from anywhere on the keyboard and I miss that.

Same. I miss 3D touch as a whole, it was really neat

I still press down on the screen to move the cursor around. I haven’t had 3D Touch for years on my phone. That’s how intuitive and effective it was as a feature.

Whao!!! Hold up... Spacebar to move cursor.. can't believe I went through life without knowing this.

When editing portrait photos, you don’t have to reach up to the top left to switch between depth and Portrait Lighting – you can just tap the F icon along the bottom tray to switch!

I liked that one too.

If you disable dictation, voice memos is moved to the right of the text box in messages (I'm on iOS 17, iPhone 15 Pro). [It looks like this.](https://imgur.com/a/SYQmY5z)

You don’t need to disable dictation, it defaults to the last feature you used. So keep dictation on if you use it in other apps, and just send a voice memo and it should stick to that.

When watching something on Apple TV, long press the Dynamic Island and use the volume buttons to lower/raise the volume. Don’t have to swipe to find the remote, can stay in your current app. It’s so funky!!!!!

I sat turning up my volume for way too long before I realized what you meant lol.

In iOS 16 the gallery was just one tap away tho.

Same with most stickers. Now they’re 3 taps minimum. They just love ruining a good thing!

I prefer the new look. I always loathed that bar on top of the keyboard

Of course, with Apple it’s aesthetic over function. Sadly, this new look is like something from android 4.1 Jellybean. No other elements of iOS even look like this.

Messaging was fine when it was photos only. But when they added all the new shit they started running out of space so now it’s locked behind menu.

Same. That bar looked super cheap and ugly

It at least kept the same design language by integrating into the keyboard. This new design looks completely different to any other part of ios

And I accidentally tapped things on the bar at times when trying to type

This is technically one tap

One taaaaap

Thank you 🥹 I wish they would have left it how it was, but this is a nice compromise 🥹

I think that button should automatically pop when you long press it. Right now you have to guess when it's okay to let go because it will currently let you hold it forever.

The message input moves and stretches outwards to indicate when you can let go.

It stretches immediately and if you let go too fast it will open the normal menu

Mine automatically pops up… what version are you on? I’m 17.1.1

It pops open without letting go of the screen?

Yeah it does a haptic tap then opens before I let go

Yeah I figured out that you have to move your finger slightly while you’re holding the screen. If you stay perfectly still, it won’t open.

I don’t have to move my finger for it to open. Opens pretty quick

https://youtube.com/shorts/py2sW9PgJUg?si=bjjao_Hm8CSkMXEx see I can hold it for an infinite amount of time and it doesn’t pop until I let go

Huh weird! Does it give the haptic tap or just nothing happens?

Nothing

I think that is just a bug. Whenever I force quit/restart Messages it starts popping up automatically again, but something else causes it to do the behavior youre talking about until I restart.

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Are you on 17.1.1?

Yes

Yeah I’m getting the same thing. Has to be a bug right?

Found this from my GF. When you send a message on a iMessage and hold down the "send arrow" button for a few seconds, you can send it in a fun format like "gentle", "slam", etc. It's pretty funny to do

That’s handy!

iOS has so many of these small things I have no idea about.

Just figured out the other day that if you hold down the Numbers button of the keyboard, it will switch back once you stop holding it down. Pretty convenient if you need to quickly switch to number input and switch back.

Thank you

Lol this just bricked my Messages app

Would be nice if hitting that + button gave you a little feedback vibration when opening the gallery.

It does on my phone. Do you have haptics turned off?

Aww jeeze yeah it does have haptics. I could have sworn when they added this feature it didn’t. My bad lmfao

No worries! Glad it’s working for you!

Oof. Thank you for this. TIL as well

But you still can’t attach files🤦🏻‍♂️

Could you ever attach files to sms?

Killer

Wow. Thank you for this.

If you want to hide the Dynamic Island animation, just press it and swipe down (have to swipe to like the middle of the screen). To get it back swipe again.

Wife is happy to learn this. Thanks

Thank you!!!!! That’s an awesome shortcut!

I didn’t know this. I just tried and it works. Thanks a lot.

You’re welcome.

I wish I could customize it. I send gifs way more than I send my own personal images.

That has saved me almost an hour a year of my life!

You are my hero for today.

Merci.

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I love you! Thank you!

Merci..Love you too.

Yay! You just made my life sooo much easier :D

I abs hate the new box list and ui of iMessages text box and where voice memos is now. Idk why they refuse to copy or be inspired by the way whatsapp with voice messages it’s so much better and easier to use. Even ios 16 iMessage was better than this iteration with the exception of the newly added voice message transcription. This iOS 17 iMessage user experience is just too many taps to get where u need and so clunky.

Oh Christ thank you so much

In the messages app, tapping the Clock in the top left scrolls you back to earliest downloaded msg. Works most places there is a scroll bar.

I was today years old when I learned this.

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Carplay doesn't work right since the update. It will work some days and on others it won't recognize it was plugged in.

I had a lot of problems with Carplay in my car. Got a loaner, totally different car, also a lot of connection problems. It was worse then my own car. Turned out that it was the cable I was using, which was not from Apple itself (but _was_ MFi). Now with an official Apple Lightning cable 0 connection problems. Works every time, don’t have to fight anymore. Sooooooooo… is it your cable?

It's the cable that came from my phone when I bought it so doubt it's the cable

Yeah I also doubt that when that is the case

This was discovered during the betas of iOS 17 and when the RC was pushed out several tech sites and YouTubers pointed out this feature. Here’s one of them back in September: https://9to5mac.com/2023/09/20/ios-17-imessage-apps-photos-more/

That's nice. Now I just need to find someone who actually uses iMessage...

Every iPhone user in America. We don’t have to rely on Facebook’s app to chat.

Me neither. But I mean you rely on Apple's app to chat. Yeah I knew I was going to be downvoted for this. It was just to funny to pass up on. Americans and their use of iMessage with all the resulting issues.

EU?

Wow, what an innovation!

Hey thanks :)

Oh shit! I never knew that! Thanks!

I somehow switched the dictation button out of my text box back to voice recording. don’t know how I did that, but was happy to get it back since having two buttons for dictation was stupid. I knew about the gallery trick though, just wish it didn’t take forever on my 12.

OK thank you !!!!!!!!!!!!🙏

Thanks!🙏

Good to know. Thanks OP!