We’ve all probably done it, sent a text message to the wrong person. Whether it was a drunk “u up?” text or accidentally saying something to your family group chat, most of us had endured the dreaded wrong text before. Well, luckily for us, we may not have to worry about that for much longer. According to MacRumors, Apple is reportedly testing a new feature that will allow iPhone owners retract messages sent through iMessage. However, since this would be an iMessage feature, this capability would likely only work when sending texts to another iPhone, iPad, or Mac user — not those using Android devices remember.
The logistics aren’t yet revealed as for how long you would have before the text was officially sent. On Google's email service, you can adjust your settings to choose whether you'd like to have the option of rescinding an email five, 10, 20, or 30 seconds after it's been sent. So I’d expect something similar to that concept.
It's one of several updates Apple is reportedly testing for iMessage, which may arrive in the company's next major iPhone update, expected to be called iOS 14. Other features Apple is reportedly testing include a typing indicator for group chats, aka those little dots you see when someone is typing, as well as a mentions feature for tagging other people in a group message.
Apple didn’t respond to the rumors, but we’ll be sure to keep you posted if confirmed or more info comes out. Stay tuned.
Johnny Depp Threatened To Burn Ex-Wife Amber Heard In Raging Texts
Disturbing text messages that Johnny Depp sent his friend about his ex-wife were read aloud today in court.
Johnny Depp is currently overseas at the moment taking on a court battle with British newspaper The Sun over an article that alleged Depp had been abusive to his ex-wife Amber Heard. Well during the court hearing yesterday, the defendant revealed some damaging evidence against Mr. Depp, which showed text messages he sent to his actor friend Paul Bettany back in 2013 that revealed Depp threatening to burn and drown his ex-wife.
Depp allegedly wrote on Nov. 6, 2013, “Let’s burn Amber,” the court heard aloud. He later texted Bettany again that day to say, “Let’s drown her before we burn her!!! I will f–k her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she is dead.” However, it should be noted that following those rage texts, Depp did say he could never harm Amber. “I am admittedly too f–ked in the head to spray my rage at the one I love’,” he admitted.
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In addition to all this, the court also heard further texts allegedly sent by Depp to Bettany a year later in May of 2014, which read: “I’m gonna properly stop the booze thing, darling… Drank all night before I picked Amber up to fly to LA, this past Sunday…Ugly, mate,” he said referring to a nasty fight the couple got into while on an airplane.
Depp’s lawyer Adam Waldman said, “What does the Sun do to keep Amber Heard’s hoax alive? [Wednesday] in court we learned the answer — cherry-picking a fragment of a single frustrated text message to a friend sent out of 500 gigabytes of text and email messages provided,” which refers to the texts the Sun chose to highlight this week. “One person, one side, is lying, and one is not,” Depp’s lawyer added. “Obviously, we say that it is Ms. Heard (who is lying), Mr. Depp is 100% clear about that.”
It’s safe to assume this won’t be the last time we hear about Johnny and Amber’s nasty break up and legal woes. Read more about it all right here if wanting to know more.