Tencent admits to being a coward for the first time. People who have been tortured by WeChat for many years finally get their revenge.

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On March 9, Tencent’s WeChat made headlines because of the dark mode of the iOS system.

The headline was made with great reluctance, because it was revealed that Apple was forced to support the iOS dark mode, otherwise WeChat would be removed from the App Store.

Although it was later clarified that this was not a mandatory requirement from Apple, Apple did not say that it would be removed from the shelves. It only required that all store apps must be developed using the iOS 13 SDK before April 30 to be fully compatible with the iOS 13 system, including support for features such as dark mode.

Why can a dark mode cause such a big controversy? In the final analysis, this is caused by Tencent, especially WeChat's stubbornness. In April last year, they responded with a look of dissatisfaction why there is no night mode. Tencent said that it was for everyone's good, so that people would not be addicted to WeChat chatting and stay up late.

As a result, a year later, they still had to support dark mode, and Tencent officially pointed out that "in order to optimize the user experience, WeChat and Apple have reached a cooperation to jointly explore the dark mode experience of WeChat on the iOS system."

After being questioned, Tencent kept saying things that were difficult to understand, such as "joint development" and "user experience", which made everyone laugh. The store was filled with a happy atmosphere.

As an application that is installed in almost all smartphones and is indispensable to 99% of netizens, why is WeChat in trouble for "likes from all directions"?

If you see how everyone is complaining about WeChat, you will understand.

As a social APP born with a "golden spoon", WeChat has Tencent's inherent advantages in the social field. In the end, everyone accepted this application and had to use it. WeChat's founder Zhang Xiaolong also became a god-like figure.

Everyone uses it but that doesn't mean it's easy to use. This is especially true for WeChat. Over the years, there have been constant complaints about WeChat's various difficulties in using it, but Zhang Xiaolong and Tencent have basically not made any changes, adopting an attitude of "use it or not".

How difficult is WeChat to use? A search on this topic will yield a lot of results. Netizens have summarized dozens of reasons why WeChat is difficult to use:

• The file is too large to be transferred
• Chat history cannot be stored in the cloud
• Expired files cannot be downloaded or even viewed
• WeChat default embedded browser
• Cannot be saved online, if deleted, it will be lost forever
• There is a prompt for message withdrawal
• There is no progress bar in voice chat
• Deleting a conversation will also delete the chat history
• Group messages cannot be blocked, only Do Not Disturb
• "The other party is typing" reminder
• Being added to a group without consent
• No group contacts
• New group members cannot browse the group's previous chat history
• Can't find the group you're interested in
• There are strict restrictions on videos uploaded to Moments
• Unable to switch accounts
• Can't delete friends in both directions
• Red envelopes sent by mistake cannot be withdrawn
• Emoticon pack limit: 300
• Wechat business without management
• Contacts are not grouped
• WeChat memory files cannot be cleared with one click
• WeChat loading speed is too slow
• It is difficult to link mobile phones and computers
• Cannot log out of WeChat account
• Up to nine images per time
• Cannot double delete friends
• Comments cannot be deleted in Moments
• You can’t post GIFs on Moments

These points have been the subject of complaints from countless netizens for many years. The Tencent WeChat team has generally made some changes, but the vast majority of the points have remained unchanged.

WeChat does have more and more functions, but most of the functions that WeChat has added are for its own convenience, such as circle of friends ads, information flow control, etc. - although there seems to be nothing wrong for commercial companies to do so .

Will WeChat absorb user suggestions and become a truly useful app? It hasn’t happened in all these years, and it’s even less likely now that there is no one competing with it.

But this does not prevent everyone from taking the opportunity to complain about Tencent and WeChat. This is why the WeChat team was criticized tonight - after Tencent admitted defeat, everyone did not forget to continue to step on it, even though they all knew it was useless.