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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (34 children)

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.

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[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 71 points 1 year ago

You can manually show whatever animation you want just hold down the send button

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[–] village604@adultswim.fan 11 points 1 year ago

I think there's a reason the message before is hidden.

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[–] iamacar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

We could also consider the possibility this is a meme made for funny.

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[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

I choose to trust my fellow human. If the meme says it happened, who am I to say I know better?

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[+] MourningDove@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/signal-group-chat-leak-how-it-happened

[–] Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 point 1 year ago

Siri thought a journalist's phone number belonged to a Trump official and helped cause signalgate

AI be doing AI things

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Definitely possible, but I've seen Apple release weirder bugs. Especially when they brought this functionality over to FaceTime.

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[–] axx@slrpnk.net 9 points 1 year ago (8 children)

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…)

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml -6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (8 children)

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

None of what's been mentioned above requires server-side processing.

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Sure, as you do with any software. A computer is always looking at your data and input. That's how it works. Unless you audit it yourself, you have to take someone else's word it isn't doing something it isn't supposed to.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (4 children)

I am absolutely not an Apple Stan. I hate Apple. I'm on Linux for a reason, and my phone is running Android (which I also hate, but whatever). You're reasoning was just bad.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

Lol. I don't. However, you're acting like just displaying something is an indication of them sending the data off. You do know the text message itself is not just displayed on the screen, right? It takes in some bytes of data and processes it, and them uses that to select characters to print to the screen. It has to process the messages no matter what. This little effect isn't anything more dangerous than the characters being rendered to the screen. Both of them are just processing the data in a message to choose what to display.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 point 1 year ago* (2 children)

Your comment that started all of this:

so... is ios reading all your messages now or what

You're message implies you think it's being sent off to Apple for processing because of this effect. You further prove this is what you meant later.

If course, the comment is technically correct. It is reading your messages. It has to to even display the text, so obviously it is. It always has been and always will, and the same goes for every other phone that has ever existed or will ever exist. It's a requirement for you to interact with it.

This does not mean it's being sent to Apple. It gives us no insight into whether that's happening either. It is neither necessary nor sufficient for that. All that we can understand from this feature is that your system is reading your messages, which again is a requirement for them to display them at all.

This is not defending Apple. It's arguing against stupid takes. It has nothing to do with Apple. I hate them and will point out when they're doing anything I even slightly don't like. This isn't evidence of anything (except being a dumb feature that I don't even want).

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh my god, you keep going. Nothing makes me think they're trustworthy. I don't know why you keep saying this. I'm pointing out that this effect is not an indication of them sending your data off the device. Are they sending data off the device? Almost certainly. This effect is not an indication of that. It doesn't require anything more than just displaying the text does. Both of them require processing the data in the message to figure out what to show.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 child)

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[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 year ago

Where is that being implied?!

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

While Apple's code isn't open-source, I believe they've subjected their code to third-party audit in the past for confirmation that the data isn't being sent off-device.

So kind of, but not entirely.

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[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

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.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

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[+] umbrella@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (5 children)

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.)

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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)

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

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.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

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.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca -4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Looks like the first message has an engagement ring and heart emoji

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[–] bran_buckler@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s how the contact is saved in their phone, a name with a ring and heart.

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[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Huh, I wonder if it set off the confetti anyway

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[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

It did not because that’s not how it works

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[–] i_dont_want_to@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

That appears to be part of the contact's name

https://youtu.be/KFYyfrTIPQY

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[+] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com -27 points 1 year ago (5 children)

AI doing AI things.

Signalgate was most likely caused because Siri thought a journalist was a Trump official and added his number to the contact book. (Well caused by both AI and gross incompetence)

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[–] ohshit604@sh.itjust.works 48 points 1 year ago

But it’s not Ai? You can send animations for any message on iMessage, people just don’t realize you have to hold the send button to open the menu.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The animations (and this image, actually) predate the current idea of AI by several years.

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[–] mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Ah ok. I don't use iOS but I thought they could have been trying to use an LLM to assess messages for automatic effects instead of just using keywords like Facebook.

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[–] ilinamorato@lemmy.world 1 point 1 year ago

Definitely just keywords. I don't use iOS either, but I think I remember early on people were getting wildly incorrect reactions because of stuff that basically boiled down to the Scunthorpe Problem.

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[–] ManOMorphos@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The animation (and this meme) have been around for way longer than modern AI. IIRC I remember seeing this meme in 2019.

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[–] mic_check_one_two@lemmy.dbzer0.com 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

Brutal.

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[–] NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 year ago

Maybe they thought it was like throwing a smoke bomb, and they could ghost while it clears.

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[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 40 points 1 year ago (4 children)

are you being fr

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

fr fr

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Cap or no cap

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

uhhhh cap?

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[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

That's a cup

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[–] slazer2au@lemmy.world 46 points 1 year ago

🎉🎊🥳

[–] _stranger_@lemmy.world 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

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[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yo is that my man James Hong? Hell yeah. I literally heard that in my head in his voice. Complete with the little "hehheh auhhh...." thing he does.

That guy INVENTED that archetype. David Lo Pan, Covetus Chen, Mr. Ping, Chi Fu, random call of duty characters, hundreds of roles. They're always so colorful and hilarious and likable or even hateable.

Sorry, just a random appreciation I have...

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