iOS unread texts get bigger

I used to be the friend who was waiting for people to text them back. Something happened, and now I am the person people are waiting to text them back. The circle of life I guess.

Even though texting someone back isn’t hard, it starts to compound when you need to reply to many different people. It’s easy on a busy day for me to let my unread message count exceed 100 if group chats are active.

This got me thinking about how you might incentivize people to read their texts. What if messages simply got larger the longer you ignored them? This would make for some great shareable moments if people ignored texts for too long. It would also potentially embarrass some people if they ignored the wrong thing.

This helps solve the problem of unread messages, but it does nothing to incentivize replies. That’s a problem for another day.

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