HACKER Q&A
📣 redundantly

I found a fun bug in Messages for macOS. Can anyone else replicate this?


In the Messages app I can edit other people's messages by:

1. Manually selecting a portion (or all) text in a message.

2. CMD+tab out of Messages and then back into it

3. Start typing

I am running Messages Version 14.0 (6000) and macOS 13.4.1 (22F82).

The edits are temporary. If I change conversations and go back the real messages return. Sometimes it takes tabbing away and back in twice for it to be permitted.

An example (expires in two days):

* https://streamable.com/1okjdm

I checked with a few people, no one else is able to replicate this behaviour. Anyone else?

  👤 necovek Accepted Answer ✓
As with any bug report, you should report exact software version numbers to help others reproduce it, and especially if you are using some other focus/key stealing apps (eg password managers, karabiner for key rebindings...)..