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Leon Overweel

@viticci as someone who ~never uses iMessage and doesn't really like the app, the idea of being able to get a separate, minimal app for just SMS (2FA codes etc.) sounds excellent! (As long as it can also do stuff like donate 2FA codes to the autofill bar above the keyboard etc.)

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Arnaud

@leonoverweel @viticci There is no indication that you can fully replace the app and get your texts in another app. You can set whatsapp as your default app, delete Messages and that's it based on today's announcement

Leon Overweel

@dt @viticci if you delete the Messages app, you need some way to receive SMS messages right? I doubt they’d let you stop your phone from being able to receive SMS messages by deleting Messages without there being some way for other apps to be able to fill that functionality gap.

Arnaud

@leonoverweel @viticci I don't doubt that they did. Eu asked to delete default apps and they got it.
If there were new apis to replace the sms app functionally I think it would have been announced

Call it malicious compliance if you want

D4v

@leonoverweel @dt @viticci This is gonna cause a lot of confusion especially for elderly people. Previously you could jist set-up the iPhone and IT JUST WORKED. Now I'm gonna be the tech support in our family like I used to (when my fam members used androids and always messed up something in settings)...

Arnaud

@d4v @leonoverweel @viticci I think you could use the Restrictions menu to block this, but this requires extra setup

D4v

@dt @leonoverweel @viticci yeah, but I meant the use case of where person gets a new iPhone, the initial set-up will be confusing to a lot of non-tech people IMO, but we will see, only time will tell 😊

Arnaud

@d4v It's okay bro
Just one more browser ballot screen bro I promise

D4v

@dt πŸ˜πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

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