Bus圜ontacts supports multiple conditions, and you can see cards that match any, all, or none of them. But Bus圜ontacts’ filters are far more powerful: for one thing, Apple only lets you create Smart Groups where a card matches a single criterion. Tags work essentially like groups in Apple’s Contacts, whereas filters are the equivalent of Smart Groups, letting you specify a set of criteria and then quickly view just the contacts that match them. That’s one place where Bus圜ontacts’ useful filtering and tagging tools come in. In particular, if you need to share contacts among a group of people, say, in a small business, or if you need to log and manage your interactions with people, then Bus圜ontacts is likely what you’re looking for. But if you’ve felt limited by Apple’s Contacts (or just hate its interface, as TidBITS publisher Adam Engst does), Bus圜ontacts might fill some of the gaps you’ve encountered. You may not need everything Bus圜ontacts can do, because it’s a lot. What’s more, Bus圜ontacts integrates seamlessly with Bus圜al forming a flexible, easy to use CRM solution that works the way you do.īus圜ontacts syncs with the built-in Contacts app on OS X and iOS and supports all leading cloud services, including iCloud, Google, Exchange, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn. Strangely, if another service (known as a "User-Agent") tries to look for metadata, Instagram doesn't re-route it to the login page, and can comply just fine.Bus圜ontacts is a contact manager for OS X that makes creating, finding, and managing contacts faster and more efficient.īus圜ontacts brings to contact management the same power, flexibility, and sharing capabilities that Bus圜al users have enjoyed with their calendars. "Because the login page of Instagram has no metadata for link previews, iMessage doesn't show anything." "When iMessage tries to open the link to look for the metadata, Instagram forwards the requests to the login page," Mysk said. By inspecting the network traffic between iMessage and Instagram, Mysk found that, oddly, Instagram *is* only having a problem with previews on iMessage. They've uncovered security flaws in link previews before, and I wanted to see if they could pinpoint the issue. While Instagram was looking into the matter, I reached out to the security research team known as Mysk, aka Talal Haj Bakry and Tommy Mysk. “This issue is due to a bug, and we are actively working to resolve Instagram link previews in iMessage so that they load normally," an Instagram spokesperson said over email. After investigating, the company found that there is - aha! - a bug afoot. Instagram looked into the issue when Mashable asked about it. Essentially, Apple's stance is that it's not on them. While Apple would not comment, its developer guidelines provide technical parameters and state that it's up to developers to make sure their links cooperate. Could there be something more to this communication issue? What's going on? Apple and Facebook (which owns Instagram) have not been playing nice lately.
And links from other websites, like Twitter or Google, preview fine when sent through iMessage.
The particularly weird thing about this issue is that Instagram previews only seem to cause an issue in iMessage, not when sent through other platforms, like Slack. It wasn't always this way - Instagram previews used to work fine. Instead, all that appears when you try to send an Instagram post to someone is the ugly Instagram URL, and users have to click through to see the post. Have you noticed recently that Instagram links are not generating previews when sent through iMessage? I noticed this irritation a few months ago, and people have been complaining about it on Reddit, too. Well, in a small technical way that's made sending Instagram posts by text slightly more annoying, that is.
Instagram and iMessage aren't on speaking terms.