I think it’s good.
It’s not about reminding me that the person isn’t in my contacts, it’s about
telling me who sent the message. I’d rather hear “Message from maybe Flor
Lynch” than “Message from +3531234567”.
The “maybe” distinguishes known contacts from others. You can always then
choose to save that person to your contacts and you won’t hear the “maybe”
anymore.
Each to their own though, not everyone’s a fan I guess :)
Dave
On 26 Mar 2020, at 14:08, Tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Agreed, I find it just extra noise …
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<mailto:iphone_newbees-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>> On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
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Subject: [iphone_newbees] Re: Message from maybe John Doh... in WhatsApp
If there are people whom you’re not acquainted with in the WhatsApp group to
which you’ve been added, and you read a message from them for the first time
with their name prefixed by Maybe, one wonders, of what benefit is it? Why be
reminded that you haven’t got the person’s details in your Contacts, when
you know you haven’t?
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Subject: [iphone_newbees] Re: Message from maybe John Doh... in WhatsApp
Ok so I now think I was wrong about this lol.
VoiceOver actually says the word “possibly” in these situations, not “maybe”.
I believe the correct setting is Speak Detected Text & Images, located in the
Verbosity section of VoiceOver settings.
Switching it off had no effect in WhatsApp anyway, though as I say, I kinda
know I was wrong about that anyway.
So back to my original thinking that it’s intentional from WhatsApp.
Personally I think it’s a great feature as it happens.
Dave
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On 26 Mar 2020, at 08:22, tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
off?
