Talk:IMessage

Removed paragraph
"As of December 2011 there are reports of stolen devices still sending and receiving messages of the original owner. In another case, an iPhone bought by a customer received iMessages sent to and by the employee who activated the iPhone."

This was sat in the middle of the 'history' section, where it was very out of place and not relevant. It could in principle go into a separate section further down the article, but I think it's on the edge of being relevant to the article... Thanks. Mike Peel (talk) 15:14, 21 July 2012 (UTC)

Technology Section
I am not happy with the source for this information. It is a wiki which I do not think has the necessary reliability or editorial review to be used as a wikipedia source. I suggest that the information in this section be verified properly Ignition00 (talk) 16:58, 2 November 2012 (UTC)

Read Receipts
It says: If the recipient enables Read Receipts, the sender will be able to see that the recipient has read the message. However, I have some doubts on this point because there's nothing more to say that sender will be able to see that the message has been presented. There is still the chance that it's not read or that it's read by someone else. Ppso (talk) 06:56, 20 April 2013 (UTC)


 * Not sure if this helps clarify, the article currently has the following, written before the read receipts bit that you quote: All iMessages are encrypted and can be tracked using delivery receipts. Can delivery also mean what you claim is needed "has been presented"?


 * Regarding your bit, "There is still the chance [...] that it's read by someone else.", the end-to-end encryption is supposed to take care of this bit - note that the respective security/encryption pages have information on vulnerabilities/backdoors etc.


 * I believe the language about read receipts and delivery should be expanded for clarity, but I believe the article is okay as-is. 134.186.234.108 (talk) 23:27, 9 January 2018 (UTC)

Problems section
I feel that this section should be completely removed, since the problem listed is alleged and is sourced from a Business Insider article that appears to contain erroneous or incomplete information. I've edited the passage to reflect that the problem is alleged and is not universal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.152.232.130 (talk • contribs) 01:40, 18 May 2014‎ (UTC)


 * It's also sourced from a Bloomberg article. Guy Harris (talk) 06:02, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * That was added after the comment above; the article reads accurately now. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 50.152.232.130 (talk) 08:11, 18 May 2014 (UTC)
 * An iMessage from my wife's iPhone gets sent as a picture message to my email account. A text message gets sent as a text attachment. This is ridiculous. If Apple are sending iMessages as emails, why not all switch to emails? There is nothing iMessage can do that cannot be done via email! 51kwad (talk) 08:41, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Undue Weight
The statement that iMessage security is no better than TLS, while reflected in the citation, is not a common viewpoint. It’s an exaggeration at best, and even the article that makes the claim says that Apple has since adopted many of the suggestions made by the researchers. More importantly, including that statement without including similar audits and opinions about iMessage security makes the viewpoint seem more prevalent than it actually is.

--Saklad5 (talk) 18:42, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Expanding Lead
The lead of this article is extremely short, and fails to cover basic aspects of iMessage such as supported content, popularity, mechanism of use, and security. This should be expanded to be closer to the introductions of similar topics like AIM, SMS, or WeChat.

Saklad5 (talk) 19:02, 20 April 2018 (UTC)

Recording and Archive Features
The article might be enhanced by a section regarding the recording of chat sessions (both initiated by user and those that invite the user, locating the archiving of the chats also poses some problems for users (insufficiently documented by Apple currently) Francois Lachance--Scholar-at-Large (talk) 15:05, 16 April 2020 (UTC)

Removed paragraph to be properly sourced
This edit was published a couple days ago, but neither of its sources can be construed as even close to meeting Wikipedia's reliable source guidelines. As such, I'm leaving it here (along with the citations) for someone who feels like it to properly source this information:

" As of February 2021, MacOS Big Sur has a small limitation on AirMessage that does not allow users to create new chats from Android. "

 TheTechnician27  (Talk page)  03:36, 25 February 2021 (UTC)