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Both WhatsApp and iMessage have supported this feature for a while.

iMessage's version takes the message and makes a thread out of it, and then inside that thread you are only ever "responding to the thread in general". The good versions are WhatsApp and (now) Facebook Messenger (though I think the UX is still better on WhatsApp).

I was thinking only about 3rd-party messengers.

iMessage sucks.

Source: I stopped using Whatsapp a couple of weeks ago and moved go signal & imessage. Most messages are iMessage currently. Since i use iMessage that much, I have realized how bad it is compared to any other messenger…

Telegram has this. In fact you can only reply to specific messages as threads don’t exist.

Signal, WhatsApp and even Messenger have it.

Bumble as well, despite not solely a chat app

Signal and Matrix/Element do this.

I do this all the time on Element.