Isn’t the difference the platform? On my phone it’s still listed as iMessage but on the Mac and iPad it’s the Messages app.
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My phone calls it messages.
My iPhone app says Messages. Apple went through and took the i off of all their apps.
They did that to provide continuity across all their system platforms.
Right the section is “Messages” but under that heading the specific switch for iMessages is iMessages isn’t it?
Messages includes text messages as well as iMessages.
Based on the OP's message
he would seem to be talking about the messaging "system", not a particular app. I mean, you can't send text messages on an iPhone without Messages/iMessage (I'm aware of alternate apps like WhatsApp, etc too).
iMessages still exists. It is Apple's version (protocol) for iOS-to-iOS device messaging.
As of the most current iOS 15 public beta, it still has the iMessage setting, and still only applies within the Apple ecosystem (iOS, iPadOS, macOS).
iMessage is strictly iOS to iOS. Turn iMessage off on your iPhone. You can still send text messages just fine.
I wouldn't hold my breath on this. I think the smarter thing would be for Apple to adopt RCS
I forgot that I'm running that but yeah, the screenshot from iOS I posted above is from iOS 15.
Rich Communication Services, basically like iMessage without being iMessage.
What device do you have running iOS 15? I have the xr and 1st gen se, do you know if either one is supported to run iOS 15?
iOS 15 isn’t out for the general public yet. Apple runs a beta program where you can voluntarily enroll your device and get early access, but the software may be buggy and they make no promises. The public betas in my experience though have been fairly stable however, at worst a 3rd party app or 2 might not function properly/at all till that particular developer updates it.
But to answer your question, both the 1st gen SE and XR are supported for iOS 15. The official release date is “Fall 2021” which is usually the middle of September.
Do you know when? IT couldn't have been a long time back and would have had to be recent.
If you go to the settings in an iPhone XR and iPhone 11 its still referred to as iMessage
Its also referred to as iMessage in the google chrome store and iMessage in the apple support page
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207006
(ok I can see now that I am late to the game on this reply, it was one of those things with the new forum, wasnt showing other replies until you clicked on "see more replies" or something like that... *LOL*
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Thanks for the info.
Not "strictly" as they can also be sent/received on macOS.
The app is called "Messages" but the protocol is still called iMessage.
This is from macOS 11.5.2
Messages/iMessage still works on iPhone 4s
