Just needed to add another barb against Apple’s woefully oversimple Text Messaging interface…I know, I know…it’s Apple…it’s about simplicity…great. I appreciate that but here’s a thought…While I know not everyone’s that popular and not everyone has automated alerts sent by machines that are in trouble coming in but there WILL be times when you want to delete a LOT of text messages.
When something falls down and goes boom at work, I end up with hundreds of SMS messages. Fixing the hundreds versus one or two issue is a different story. Deleting all those messages becomes a console-thumb-inducing exercise in monotony.
1) Click Edit
2) Click the minus sign
3) Wait a second or two for the Delete button to show up
4) Click Delete
5) Wait a second or two for the message animation to show so you can be sure to wow your friends with the slick way a message is deleted
6) Groan
7) Repeat steps 1-6 ad infinitum
This is up there on my list of reasons Apple can’t suck enough right along side (I mean, they’re neck and neck here) the lack of folder organization in the e-mail client. I love this. I can move messages from my POP3 account inbox to my Sent Items folder (what else would I move it to since I can’t even CREATE a new folder)…but then they don’t show up, presumably because they’re TO me and Apple probably put some sort of filter in there to show everything FROM me…why offer me the ability to move an e-mail if I have NO WHERE to move it?
Which reminds me…want to delete a lot of e-mail (read: spam)? Follow steps 1-7 above…