I have the macOS Sierra final beta, but I seem to be unable to send or receive the new iMessage effects.
Such as the Invisible Ink:
Is it possible to view these effects on macOS Sierra currently? And if it is, how can I enable it?
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I have the macOS Sierra final beta, but I seem to be unable to send or receive the new iMessage effects.
Such as the Invisible Ink:
Is it possible to view these effects on macOS Sierra currently? And if it is, how can I enable it?
I just transferred all my chat history by copying ~/Library/Messages
from an existing (OSX 10.8) machine to a new one (OSX 10.10).
Couple of things to note:
chat.db-shm
and chat.db-wal
from ~/Library/Messages
on the new machinesudo kill -9 pid
in a terminal). To find out which process (and the pid) is holding on to those files I used the excellent What's Keeping Me. It found the culprit process, but I wasn't able to kill it from within it (and hence had to resort to killing from a terminal).I am happy with the above and am not too worried about the list of open conversations not being restored as long as the history itself is there.†w
Try turning off iMessage in Settings, reboot the device, and turn on and log into iMessage again. This should re-register your device with Apple's iMessage servers, and may resolve your problem.
This has fixed a similar issue for my iPhone in the past.
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Sierra doesn't support all the effects from iOS. I don't have a definitive list from Apple and I haven't seen one on their site.
On my Sierra I'm missing all the backgrounds and text effects. I can see any stickers sent to me.