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While this is a good move for users, it can also be a bad one.

Imagine all the chat/calling apps that will try to replace your default Phone/messaging/etc. apps and the amount of spam/inconsistent behaviour this will bring.

Hopefully Apple will make sure only top notch apps can replace the default apps.

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this doesn't make sense. if the user wants to replace the default with a spammy app, they should have every right to (with explicit UI to do so). spammy app will get uninstalled enough and the market will direct them to not be spammy or die.

choosing apple (or Microsoft, or Google, ...) as the arbiters of what defaults exist on a platform, and making them unchangeable, is anticompetitive. strangely, we're no longer in a climate where calling out companies on this behavior is appealing anymore. Microsoft got much worse treatment when it did this decades ago. apple has been given a pass on this forever.

Microsoft is at it still constantly resetting the default pdf reader.

Hopefully the permission scheme is similar to Windows 10, eg. Apps can only open settings to the "change defaults" screen and no longer can auto-set your default browser.

Not really. Android has a similar feature for years and no application can abuse this system since this is all controlled by OS.

Are they considering letting you change the default calling app? That would seem very odd. Mail and browser, and perhaps messaging (only for the purpose of “Siri, send a message to Joe saying blah”).

I doubt this since they already have CallKit which is used for global call answering similar to the Phone app. Maybe the extent is being able to set a default for what app is used to call phone numbers when you click them.

There is already a Siri intent that allows you to send messages via third party apps.

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