SMS messages, you can't (without two same apps with extensions).

RCS messages, you can.

These days, SMS and RCS messaging just come under the banner of "text messaging". It's pretty handy to be fair, blows MMS out of the water anyway.

Depends on the message. You can't really edit an SMS.

Editing a SMS only works between two "smart"phones. Me, I see a second message starting with EDIT, and yes, I can see the previous shit you sent me forever.

I'm a millennial and I strongly prefer editing. It's much easier on the recipient not to have to cross-reference your correction with your message, and it usually doesn't result in a separate notification ping.

I've seen some plugins for Discord and Telegram forks that let you double tap your own message to edit and I really wish this would become the standard.
But noooo, seems most apps don't have a double tap action or only use it for Emoji Reactions. Wow, truly putting the most useful actions at our fingertips 😒

But wouldn’t it say Edited underneath?

it's like gaslighting people that you were correct in the first place.

With Signal the edits show up in the notification.

I've always been asterisk at the end, but mostly because it's easier for me to type that way.

No, you edit the message so that the typo has a * after it, since asterisks indicate a footnote. Then you post the corrective message with the asterisk at the beginning.

I'm sure it's illegal in several jurisdictions.

I just checked, you cannot. One is a group RCS chat, the other is an RCS chat with just a single person. Neither allowed edits. I even check one with a friend where it's an SMS only, no edit.

So it seems like it's app specific and not texts.

Depends whether you call it “a splat” or “an asterisk”

I am millennial, and I prefer to edit. That said, I feel like people are less likely to notice the edit than they are an additional message.

Slope

Feel blessed that you never had to deal with drama from someone kicking off that a message no longer says what it used to.

We must be on different sides of the generational line. Editting texts is something that wasnt available to me until i was old enough to not notice it was possible. Im lucky my T9 "spelling" habits have diminished, but i dont know if my correcting text via * ever will

In iMessage, yes