Ah, the overly descriptive item for visuals, kindly provided by AI (and kept
from being too clever lest it get things wrong).
One of my contacts did indeed write a message there; and there were no ifs,
buts or maybe’s with that.
From: David Nason
Sent: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 9:25 PM
To: iphone_newbees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [iphone_newbees] Re: Message from maybe John Doh... in WhatsApp
On further reflection, I’ve just realised that I don’t think it’s WhatsApp
at all which is providing the word “Maybe”.
iOS has a feature which attempts to read icons, buttons, images etc if they
have a symbol or text on them, where the app itself hasn’t provided a label.
So I’m thinking that when the person isn’t in your contacts, WhatsApp
displays the name that the person has on their profile as I said before, but
it’s on some kind of non-text element, and so iOS is adding the “Maybe”, as
it does in such circumstances.
Dave
On 24 Mar 2020, at 18:28, Tim.j.culhane@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
Could be wrong here, but does the ‘maybe’ refer to the name of the
person?
i.e. They can’t be sure that is really the person’s name.
From: iphone_newbees-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
<iphone_newbees-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> On Behalf Of Flor Lynch
Sent: Tuesday 24 March 2020 17:30
To: iphone_newbees@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [iphone_newbees] Message from maybe John Doh... in WhatsApp
I’m in a WhatsApp group, and I get ‘message from maybe’ then the name of
the person who probaby wrote the message. Why Maybe? What kind of
authentication or verification is that!? They also give the mobile phone
number of the person who sent the message – or maybe sent it! Is there some
way other than what is being used here, to verify that the sender is REALLY
who they say they are?
Yours maybe,
