highlights in this tweet<\/a><\/span>, the ability to edit or delete messages poses a problem with those in family court who rely on text message records as evidence for their case. Of course, you can imagine the same applying any time messages are used as evidence, no matter the case: If the other party knows you’re going to use their messages against them, they might take advantage of the fact they can say whatever they want to you with 15 minutes to clean up the mess.<\/p>\nNow, any iMessage that is<\/em> edited in iOS 16 is labeled as such, so you’ll never confuse an edited message as the original intent. However, there’s no edit history<\/em>: Unless you have a screenshot of the message as it first was, there’s no way to confirm what the sender really said to you. You can report the message exactly as it was sent to you, but the sender can claim to have simply fixed a typo. Sure, you could burn through your battery recording your iPhone’s screen<\/span> all day, but that’s certainly not ideal, just because Apple introduced a new feature.<\/p>\nOf course, you can only edit and undo messages on iOS 16, which isn’t available to the public yet. As of this article, iOS 16 is only here for those running the iOS developer beta<\/span>, but it isn’t too difficult for non-developers to install the software on their iPhones. The public beta will open up to all iOS testers in July, and, how fall, most iPhones will have access to the messaging features.<\/p>\nHere’s the bad news: There is no way to turn these features off. If someone is running iOS 16 on their iPhone, they can edit and unsend any iMessage they want to, even if you’re not running iOS 16 on your end. However, the keyword here is iMessage<\/em>: If you’re texting<\/em> someone \u2014 as in SMS, green bubble texting \u2014 those messages are locked in, with no way to manipulate or undo them. <\/p>\nIf you’re concerned about other people editing their messages to you, the only thing to do is to disable iMessage, to force all conversations into SMS. Unfortunately, there’s no way to do this on a contact-by-contact basis: You either have iMessage enabled, or you don’t. To your friends, it’ll be like you have an Android, turning all group chats into the green texts of horror. But if you need to make sure no one is changing their texts to you, this is the only way to go about it. Thankfully, iOS 16 quietly fixes the worst<\/em> part of SMS group chats<\/span> on iPhone, so you won’t annoy your friends that<\/em> much. <\/p>\nTo disable iMessage on your iPhone, open Settings, scroll down and tap “Messages.” Now, tap the toggle next to iMessage to disable the feature on your end. All of your future messages might be green, but at least they can’t be edited or deleted.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n