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Getting back to the web interface after several hours, the checkboxes now appear. I always had avatars turned off. Don't know what changed, but I'm glad to see them again. I hope they stay.
After too much time trying to figure out how to see the checkboxes in the iOS app, I stumbled on it accidentally. One of the posters here said that the checkboxes appeared after he hovered over the avatar area in the web interface. I wondered how I could "hover" in iOS (one can't, of course). So I touched the screen in the avatar area (remember, I have avatars turned off) and left my finger on the screen for a moment. The checks boxes appeared! So, the secret move is a long hold on the message (anywhere on the message...it doesn't have to be in the area of the avatar). It does add an extra step, though, if one wants to use the checkboxes. One first needs to make them appear, and then one can check the messages one wants to take an action with.
And as others have mentioned, I, also, dislike the loss of the faint, but definitely visible gray separator lines. Without the lines does look "cleaner," but some sort of visual demarcation (such as a line, or light shading differences) to distinguish one message from the next is helpful.
These changes appear to be another example of form over function, so common in UI design. Bah, humbug!
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