You may be thinking of the Messages app, which does read incoming messages. Facebook never has done this, unfortunately. The only way to know if a new message has come in is to try to feel the phone vibration which happens when a new message comes in, and hope it’s from the chat you’re in at the time.
> On Nov 3, 2018, at 10:34 AM, Robin Frost <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > Funny you mention this as just yesterday I was in this app and noted that it > doesn’t read in coming messages automatically at least not by me. The only > way I could get alerted to new messages was to lock the phone but then the > sighted person with whom I was speaking kept saying I was disappearing in > terms of their view. I thought the app used to read in coming messages as > they arrived but perhaps my memory is faulty on this one. Are there any > work-arounds for this? > Robin > > > From: Davy Cuppens <> > Sent: Friday, November 2, 2018 3:20 PM > To: [email protected] <> > Subject: big regressions in accessibility facebook messenger > > Hi folks > > It is no longer possible to delete messages in messenger using the rotor > tasks. However, you can click on delete message but nothing happens. If you > hold and release after the 3 progress beeps you can access the menu for that > person but there seems to be no option to delete the conversation. > > For the users of itunes 12.6.3 it makes no sense to roll back to a previous > version of the app because when reinstalling the app on your phone you are > prompted to update the app otherwise it won’t work anymore. > Please report this bug to facebook accessibility. > Regards > Davy > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] <>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] <>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: > [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at > [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone > <https://groups.google.com/group/viphone>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://groups.google.com/d/optout>. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor. Mark can be reached at: [email protected]. Your list owner is Cara Quinn - you can reach Cara at [email protected] The archives for this list can be searched at: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
