# X Rolls Out DM Enhancing on iOS

In opposition to the backdrop of its various controversies, X continues to roll out updates, with DM modifying being launched for iOS customers over the weekend.

As you’ll be able to see on this submit from X engineering lead Michael Anderson, iOS customers now have the choice to edit their DMs within the app, which brings X’s DM choices extra into line with different messaging instruments.

Although it’s nonetheless a method behind on one key component, which is especially notable given X’s give attention to free speech and privateness. Regardless of X proprietor Elon Musk pledging to make encryption the default for all DMs within the app, that also hasn’t occurred as but.

Verified customers have the choice to activate encryption for his or her messages, however even Musk himself has admitted that the present system is “clunky”, although audio and video calls are encrypted by default.

Which is not any actual shock. Provided that Musk has additionally lowered the corporate’s workers by round 80%, the truth that some tasks are taking longer to finish makes excellent sense. However there was a noticeable discount within the scale of the updates being rolled out at X of late, because the platform works to combine new components, and construct itself into Elon’s “all the pieces app” imaginative and prescient.

For instance, during the last two months, X has continued to roll out updates at a gradual tempo. However the important thing updates of observe have been:

• Video convention calls
• Publish reply sorting choices
• Auto-advance mode for video viewing
• Improved analytics instruments

None of those are “recreation altering” updates, although they do all have their very own utility, relying on how individuals use them.

However the issue for X is that none of those options are going to be important sufficient to spark a rise in curiosity within the app. Certain, Elon Musk desires to combine extra functionalities and choices into the platform, however having half-baked variations of instruments which you could already use in different apps doesn’t seem to be one of the best path to increasing X utilization at this stage.

On prime of this, in fact, X has additionally been targeted on enhancing its Grok AI chatbot, which now has picture creation capability, whereas it’s nonetheless engaged on constructing cost choices into the app. And it’s additionally nonetheless engaged on its all-new UI, which can see like and remark counts hidden from the primary feed view.

So there are some important updates within the works, however the tempo of innovation on the app has invariably been slowed because of its staffing shift.

Although it’s nonetheless innovating greater than Twitter had been, which had lengthy been a key criticism of the app, and possibly, all of those add-on functionalities will get extra individuals utilizing X for a wider vary of functions over time.

It simply looks like X is enjoying atone for most fronts, and that the choice choices that it’s offering are less than the extent of the competitors.

Perhaps they don’t need to be, and possibly, DM modifying will get extra individuals utilizing X messaging, even with out default encryption.

I imply, I doubt it, however both method, now you can edit our DMs.