Scott Hurff:
You don’t go and make drastic changes like this an app that’s responsible for billions of messages a day without good reason. This update shows that Apple is keenly aware of the changing habits of their customer base, and I think this is going to be the most important change in iOS since Apple added “swipe up” access to the Camera in iOS 6.
There were some big changes in Messages in iOS 8.
Hmm. That circular menu, operated with one hand, would be very useful if, say, there was a larger screen…