Make deleting whole conversations in the message app more clear
asked 2018-11-11 01:00:04 +0200
Once I accidentally deleted a whole conversation with another person in the messaging app. On the overview page where one can see all the contacts he/she have communicated with by SMS there's also a preview of the last message for each contact. So I called the context menu by tapping on one preview message believing I would delete that message. But in fact I deleted the whole conversation with that person. I think there should be an extra warning apart from the 5 seconds timer when attempting to delete a whole conversation. Or the delete option should get another name like "Delete whole conversation".
An extra warning would be most annoying. But it would be clever to re-name the delete-option in the context menu to "delete conversation". I personally don't believe a lot of people encounter this issue (because the concept of organizing conversations rather than single messages is know from other OSs) but re-naming this menu item really doesnt break anything and improves things a lot.
ossi1967 ( 2018-11-11 10:00:11 +0200 )edit