Messages is one of the original iPhone (now iOS) apps shipped with the iPhone. It also now includes version of Messages shipped with OSX Mountain Lion.
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How can I force Mountain Lion's Messages app to refresh a conversation?
Sometimes when an iMessage comes in and I switch to the Messages app, the conversation doesn't contain the new message.
I know the message was received because an alert banner popped up with the ...
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How can I set a preferred contact method in Messages
I have a contact with iMessage, AIM and Google Talk accounts. When using Messages to open a new chat with her, I'd like it to always default to Google Talk if she's online -- instead, it seems to pick ...
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Is there anyway to style Messages.app's message view?
Messages.app is a one of my favorite applications now-a-days because it allows me to reach my friends portable devices and computers with great ease and speed. But it didn't really hit the bar with ...
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Why is the number of unread messages in Messages negative?
Occasionally, and with no apparent correlation with what is going on on other devices where I have Messages enabled, I get a negative count for my unread messages in Messages on OS X:
What could be ...
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How can I log in to ICQ using iChat?
It used to be possible to log in to ICQ accounts with iChat by using your ICQ login info as an AIM account. However, that no longer seems to work.
Is there any way to use ICQ with either iChat or the ...
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iPhone log for actions like deleting text conversations?
I recently found one of my long-running text conversations cleared. I may have deleted it accidentally, but I would like to know when I did. Is there a system log that logs information at this ...
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After sleep, Messages doesn't consult Keychain for passwords
My MacBook will often sleep while I take a break, and when it wakes up, Messages doesn't consult Keychain for passwords. Instead, I'm prompted for all of my passwords again.
Why is this? Is there ...
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Disable Notification for specific Account in Messages
Is there a way to disable the Notifications for a specific Account in Mountain Lion's Messages App?
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Messages.app asks for iChat every time I open it
Every time I open up Messages, it asks me to locate iChat. This is on a new machine that I migrated from an old one on Lion and then upgraded to Mt. Lion. I don't have iChat on this machine any more, ...
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iPhone-Android texting compatibility
Text messages from my iPhone to my friend's Android phone do not stay in the 160 characters as sent. Sometimes they appear as two or three separate texts when they are received.
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How to see the phone numbers a message was sent to?
I sent a message to several people, and one of them indicates that they never got the message. Is there a way that I can email a copy of the message showing all the phone numbers the message was sent ...
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How to keep Messages chats sorted manually
It is possible to keep opened chats in Messages in order i sort it manually? Because it always resorts it chronologically, so it's changing all the time and it's kind of confusig to me.
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Ensuring replies to group messages go to the whole group rather than just the individual who sent the original
When I send a group text - I get back replies as individual messages all in their individual conversations and no one else can see the reply - this is fine if I want them private.
But I have once ...
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LAN Chat via OS X Server — Will Messages App Suffice?
I'm setting up a network for a small business with two geographic sites, which will be run on OS X Server.
We need a "chat" tool of some sort, and the contents of those chats could possibly contain ...
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How do I make Messages.app override a contact's buddy icon?
I have a Jabber account configured in Messages. When other people on the server change their buddy icons, the changes are pushed to my machine. I want to override their icons and force Messages to ...
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Text Stuck in Message Field
Using an iPhone 4 and within Messages, a previously sent message text is stuck within the text box!
Whenever I open a new message window, the text box shows with the old message text pre-populated ...
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Extracting Profile Picture from Messages
How can I extract the profile pic from Messages to jpeg to save to my computer?
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Email verificaton not sending when linking Messages to my iPhone iMessage phone number
I am trying to link my iPhone iMessages account (with my phone number, not email address) to Mac Messages. I entered my phone number under the "add email" option. Messages subsequently told me that a ...
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Messages incorrect password or username
The messages app is giving me an error message that says that my yahoo password or login ID is incorrect. I'm sure i'm entering the right login ID and password. Any solutions?
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Making Messages report that it is a different client
My company recently upgraded their XMPP server for internal chat, and now require the Jitsi client. I don't know if Jitsi is nice on Windows, but the Mac version is like having bleach dripped in my ...
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How can I get the Messages app on iOS 6 to NOT open the newest message?
All the phones I had in the past could open the SMS/text app without actually opening the newest message; not so my iPhone.
Sometimes I need to access some info from a prior text message but there is ...
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Change behavior of “Messages” window in Mountain Lion Messages
In general, I'm more than pleased with the changes in Mountain Lion, but in any release there are a few niggling things that bug me. One of them involves the behavior of the Messages app which ...
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Messages app doesn't receive Adium messages over Jabber/Gtalk
On my brand new Mountain Lion setup, the Messages app behaves weirdly with remote Adium clients when using a Google Talk account:
I appear offline in my friends Adium contact list
These Adium-using ...
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imagent constantly sucking network bandwidth, won't die
Since installing Mountain Lion and configuring Messages, I've noticed a trickle of network activity that is basically constant.
I installed Little Snitch and discovered that a process called ...
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Why do I get an invalid certificate error with my Gmail account in iChat/Messages?
I've had this problem for a long time now, and it's finally bothered me enough to ask. Can anyone explain why I get an invalid certificate error when I try to sign into my @gmail.com account within ...
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iMessages - can one disable 'join/leave' messages in group chats?
Does anyone know where you can disable the join/leave messages in group chats in iMessages? In low-traffic chats it's utterly annoying to have scrollbacks full of 'xxx joined the chat.'/'yyy left the ...
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Messages 7.0 lost ability to auto join chat rooms?
iChat had the ability to auto-join jabber chat rooms, but Messages 7.0 seems to have lost that functionality. Anyone know if there is a defaults write … command to either auto join specific chats, or ...
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How to “merge” my Messages transcripts in OSX?
EDIT: Perhaps a better way to say all of the below, is this: Is there a way to restore my Message (iChat) history onto my iMac, from my iCloud backup? All of my iDevices have the complete chat ...
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Messages and AIM confusion
My aim screen name is my email address. Lets call it foo@bar.com. It's the same email address that I have on my apple account for I messages. Occasionally - 3-4 times a week - a colegue will message ...
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Message.app not saving font settings
I'm having a bit of a problem here. I set the sender's font to Lucida Grande while testing things and now it won't let me change it back to Helvetica. Every time I restart my Mac relaunch Messages, it ...
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Apple Messages randomly removes messages, how to force sync?
I'm flabbergasted at the behavior of Messages (previously known as iChat).
I primarily use it as a client for GTalk's IM service, but I'm getting seriously irritated at having random bits of ...
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How do I completely reset Messages app on Mountain Lion?
I have tried many times to reset Messages app on Mountain Lion by deleting the plist files and cache. Regardless it always stops working again after a few days. Messages show up in the notification ...
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How do I setup a group chat through a Jabber service on both OS X and iOS native clients?
I basically want the closest thing to iMessage (native clients for me) but for use with my friends who don't use Apple devices.
I would prefer Google Talk (gtalk) but I can live with Facebook ...
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Managed Preferences (MCX) to stop iChat/Messages from waiting on “Files being transferred”?
My users, they are actually good little users, they mostly listen to the instructions to log out at the end of the day / when they're leaving their laptop on the office LAN overnight.
The problem is, ...
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iChat showing contacts from people I've emailed once
In my iChat (now Messages?) buddy list I have a lot of buddies that are not buddies but people I've emailed once. It used to not do this. Is there a way to go back to that previous list?
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Messages app on Mountain Lion stopped logging chats?
I have checked the Messages pref to "Save history when conversations are closed" but conversations aren't saved to the chat window. They were but stopped back in December for some unknown reason.
I ...
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How to chat with multiple Apple ID's?
I have two Apple ID's to have Messages chat sessions for work and private separated.
Is it possible to use these both at the same time, on my Mac, at home?
Now, I can only login with one Apple ID at ...
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Extracting iPhone text messages
I was just reading online about how to extract iPhone text messages. I've followed the instructions and have found my messages. I used the instructions on this website: http://iphone-sms.com. (It was ...
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Messages icon not clearing “New message” alert
Often (though not all the time), after receiving a new message the little number badge (alerting me of the number of unread messages) doesn't clear after I open and read the message. The only way I ...
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Autocomplete in jabber chat?
Is there a way to enable auto nick complete in chat rooms on Messages? I would like to avoid having to install another client just to use for jabber.
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Messages quit searching names
Recently the search function in text messages on my iPhone 4 quit searching the contact names and only searches the text of the messages. Now if I want to recall the latest message I received from ...
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Messages app won't receive Facebook messages sent while being offline
I have tried setting up the Messages for Mac app to work with Facebook chat. I think the account is set up fine, it says that i am connected and I can successfully send messages, however I cannot ...
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Deleted iPhone 4S messages and pictures, with no backup, on Windows 7
I hadn't backed up my iPhone in a long time. I lost messages and pictures I've been wanting back. Is there any way to get back everything that was lost? I'm running on Windows 7. I can't find software ...
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Texts/Messages shows a contact listed nowhere else
When I send a new text message, I can search in my contacts. But for some reason, deleted contacts appear in the list as well... I think they are remains from the recent-calls list and all texts ...
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My Texts Show Up as Emails
My texts show up as emails to a contact. I have her mobile number stored, and from the contact screen when I hit "send message" it sends her an iMessage. From my message app, if I were to start a new ...
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How to create new message in iChat without sending, using Automator to grab selected text
I am trying to create a service that grabs the URL of some link, then create a blank iMessage with that URL in the body. Basically, I want to recreate that Message share feature in Safari in Mountain ...
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Why aren't images downloading in Messages?
Images (and videos) sent to my mac.com iMessage account aren not downloading in OS X Messages, even though there appear immediately on all of my iOS devices:
What could be causing this behavior? Is ...
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Assigning more than one outgoing messages on iPhone 4
Can I assign more than one outgoing message for different contacts?
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Disable diacritics in iOS Messages app?
Some people have reported to me that messages that I send them that originally contained diacritics were garbled, or the diacritics are replaced by boxes/stars etc.
Is there a way to make Messages ...
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Messages / iMessages notification routing
Having an iPhone and iPad lying on the desk while chatting with the new Messages beta app gets very annoying, as each device beeps separately.
Is there any way to have the notifications only on the ...
