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What is with the confetti?
iOS added animations to the iMessage app a while back. When it detects that you've said certain things or sent certain emojis, it shows an animation. I think one of those things is that "yay" or "congrats" gets you confetti all over the screen.
Not sure why it's happening for "I think we should see other people," though.
You can manually show whatever animation you want just hold down the send button
I think there's a reason the message before is hidden.
We could also consider the possibility this is a meme made for funny.
I choose to trust my fellow human. If the meme says it happened, who am I to say I know better?
It’s because it’s typical fake bs. iOS wouldn’t do confetti on a conversion like this.
Definitely possible, but I've seen Apple release weirder bugs. Especially when they brought this functionality over to FaceTime.
Siri thought a journalist's phone number belonged to a Trump official and helped cause signalgate
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened
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I mean, how do you think spelling correction works? Local on-device "reading" of text is a pretty simple feature that's used for a bunch of stuff (detecting URLs, email addresses…)
Yes, iOS displays your messages. In order to do that it has to read your messages. That's just how computers work. Same for Windows, iOS, Android, Linux, and even Temple OS.
Doesn't look like it's reading it over the network or sending up any data. It seems like it's just doing it locally, in the process of loading the message.
On Android devices, the apps are auditable as part of the AOSP. If they were exfiltrating data, a security researcher would already have flagged it.
Ironically, this is the comment in this thread that's not paranoid enough, because to my knowledge both Google and Samsung use their own closed-source message and phone apps, along with other standard apps. (Idk about other vendors, but the same is pretty likely for major brands.)
I just looked, and you're absolutely right. I had no idea that the Messages app wasn't part of the AOSP. Very interesting (and not in a good way)
Google integrates its own services in both the phone and messaging apps: namely spam reporting and blocking. I'm guessing that other major brands also have services to that end.
Google's ‘Messages’ also has a button to make a video call, and I dunno even what app and protocol would be used for that, as I never used video calls and don't have any Google apps for that functionality.
Looks like it delegates to Meet, for me.
Yeah, honestly, spam reporting is good. Call screen is amazing. I would be loath to give it up.
Looks like the first message has an engagement ring and heart emoji
That’s how the contact is saved in their phone, a name with a ring and heart.
Huh, I wonder if it set off the confetti anyway
It did not because that’s not how it works
That appears to be part of the contact's name
iOS automatically detects certain key words/phrases, and does animations. Or you can just hold down the Send button to trigger it (and a variety of other effects) manually. This person went out of their way to intentionally trigger the confetti with the “I think we should see other people” message, by holding Send and then selecting the confetti option.
Brutal.
Maybe they thought it was like throwing a smoke bomb, and they could ghost while it clears.
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