Hi,
This was also the case in ios 18 so it's not an ios 26 specific question I'm asking here.
TLDR you know these very long messages but that are on one single line? In iMessage or Whatsapp for example.
I don't remember if it's false memory or this was the case before, but I seem to remember that in the past we could have the line rotor show up even when there was no new line character when a message exceeded a given length, so it was very easy to review it in smaller digestible chunks. Did we lose this capability or this was never the case but should/could be upon feedback?
Thanks!
By TheBlindGuy07, 21 September, 2025
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iOS and iPadOS
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Prior to iOS 18, if you had the line item in the rotor, you could switch to it anytime you were on a body of text. With iOS 18, you can only do it if there was more than one line within that body of text. And by one line, I mean that the enter key had been pressed at least once.
Hope that makes sense..
You can test this out just about anywhere. Open a text message, your notes app, or whatever's clever. Write out some text. Do not press enter. Try to switch over to the line option. You won't find it.
Now, press center, and write out some more text. Now you'll see that you have the line option.
HTH.
Edit: You do not actually need to add more texts to make the line option appear, pressing enter after a single line of text is all it takes.