Learn how to increase text size in the Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to stop squinting your eyes if you struggle to read small type.
How to increase the text size in Messages on iPhone, iPad and Mac
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AutoShiftFix can help prevent capital letter-centric typos throughout iOS
One of the most common typo mistakes I experience on the iOS platform involves capital letters. Sometimes my fat fingers tap the Shift key in the middle of a sentence, resulting in a capital letter appearing where it doesn’t belong.
How to forward a text message on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch
There are all sorts of reasons that you may want to forward a text message. Maybe it’s directions to a location, a confirmation, a receipt you need to share, or maybe it’s simply something funny someone sent you or vice versa.
Whatever your reason, here’s how to forward a text message on iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Watch. And it works the same with both SMS and iMessage texts.
How to quickly hide the App Drawer in the Messages app
The App Drawer at the bottom of your conversations in the Messages app can be quite convenient. You can share stickers from your favorite apps, send money with Apple Pay, send Digital Touch messages, and so much more.
But, if you would rather have the full view of the conversation screen and keyboard without the App Drawer, you can simply put it away.
Here’s how to hide the App Drawer for your conversations in the Messages app.
How to send voice messages from iPhone, iPad, and Mac
Apple Messages on iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, and Vision Pro lets you send and receive audio messages via iMessage that recipients can optionally keep in the app. Audio messages bring that unmistakable personal touch.
Maybe your toddler just uttered his first words. Perhaps you want to send a business colleague a soundbite from an important meeting. Or maybe you’d like that special person in your life to hear a heartfelt message spoken aloud with your own voice.
Learn how to send audio messages to your iMessage friends when you don’t have the time for typing or want to tell them something in your own voice.
How Apple tried, and failed, to push carriers toward adopting a standardized iMessage
Apple once proposed that major US wireless carriers adopt a standardized version of iMessage, its proprietary instant messaging service. Telcos wouldn't bite, balking at the idea.
How to mark all conversations as read in the Messages app on iPhone and iPad
Learn how to mark all chats as read in the built-in Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac at once, which will remove blue dots in the conversation list.
NoMoreSkinToneSuggestion prevents iOS from nagging you about skin tones for Emojis
Certain Emojis, especially those depicting hand gestures, support a variety of different skin tones, which are configured on a per-Emoji basis. If you’ve never set a skin tone for a particular Emoji before, then you’re likely to encounter the interface shown above when tapping on it.
While there’s nothing wrong with choosing a skin tone for your Emojis, it’s rather annoying how iOS asks you to select a skin tone for each Emoji individually instead of remembering your choice for all of them. Fortunately, a new free jailbreak tweak dubbed NoMoreSkinToneSuggestion by iOS developer A_H_Rabie prevents iOS from asking about skin tones once and for all.
iOS 12’s unified Messages thread feature is sending private chats to the wrong people
iOS 12 has addressed the long-standing iMessage split thread issue, but now reports have emerged that the fix has created an even bigger mess than the one it intended to resolve because people are seeing their chat threads erroneously merged with different contacts.
In iOS 12, iMessage images are auto-saved to Photos. Here’s what you need to know.
iOS 12 auto-saves any iMessage attachments snapped with the Messages camera to Photos.
How to use iMessage effects like Memoji, stickers, filters, and shapes on your photos
Who doesn’t love fun with photos? For example, you can spruce up your photos in iMessage before you send them. You can add pizzazz, include a message, or just make your pictures more memorable.
Here’s how to use the camera effects in iMessage like stickers, filters, shapes, and more.
Send Separately streamlines bulk messaging without the headache of group conversations
Upon refreshing your Cydia sources, you may happen upon a new free jailbreak tweak called Send Separately by iOS developer NeinZedd9.
Although it seems like a subtle tweak at first glance, don’t be fooled. Send Separately can potentially save you a ton of time and frustration when sending bulk messages to friends and family, such as during holidays or special events.