Set iOS text messages as unread
Update (Sep 2022): 🔥 Finally! With #iOS16, you can mark messages as unread! It took six iOS releases to make it happen.
Here is what users expect in #iOS…to have a possibility set again a message as "unread"!
Probably you are saying right now something like: "hey, this exists!". Unfortunately, it doesn’t! It exists only in Mail, but not in Messages (iOS 10.3.2, June 2017).
I took the opportunity of presenting the idea visually (in motion). Recently, a new animation and prototyping tool Kite Compositor was launched and I wished to try it out.
More thoughts on mental models, consistency, context can be found on my blog UXGood: https://medium.com/uxgood/why-the-upcoming-ios-11-should-allow-to-mark-text-messages-as-unread-2cd7cb194845