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How to send voice messages from iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Sandy Writtenhouse ∙ Updated October 30, 2025
Audio messages on iPhone

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.

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Review: Twelve South PowerPic—a 5×7 picture frame that wirelessly charges your iPhone

Christian Zibreg ∙ November 7, 2018

You just arrived home after a long day and your iPhone could use some recharging. And when a guy needs some juice, what better way to juice up your iPhone than drop it on an elegant picture frame that's sitting on the table? That's right, Twelve South has created an amazing gadget that looks and behaves like a regular 5x7 picture frame but also happens to wirelessly charge your phone quickly because there's a 10-watt Qi charger hidden inside the frame.

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Add more haptic feedback to the official Twitter app with TapticTwitter

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 7, 2018

I’ve always been a fan of jailbreak tweaks that bring haptic feedback capabilities to unsupported parts of iOS or apps I use frequently, and with that in mind, I couldn’t help but recommend a new free release called TapticTwitter by iOS developer Chloee.

Just as the name implies, TapticTwitter brings some much-needed haptic feedback to the official Twitter app for iOS.

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KeenLab teases jailbroken iPhone XS Max on iOS 12.1

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 6, 2018

Every time Apple releases a major new software update for its iOS device lineup, it seems like the talented security researchers over at KeenLab are the first to jailbreak it.

KeenLab was the first to demonstrate a proof-of-concept jailbreak on iOS 12.0 in June and iOS 11.3.1 in April, but now it seems the security firm has found a backdoor into Apple’s iOS 12.1 update, which was only released last week.

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Crystal lets you clear all unread notifications with a pull-down gesture

Anthony Bouchard ∙ Updated January 28, 2019

When you wake up every morning with a stack of unwanted notifications cluttering up your Lock screen and Notification Center interfaces, you might be compelled to clear them all in one fell swoop.

A new free jailbreak tweak dubbed Crystal by iOS developer Antique lets you do this with by dragging downward on the Lock screen or Notification Center interface where your notifications appear, as shown in the screenshot examples above.

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Pwn20wnd releases unc0ver V1.1.2 to improve exploit success rates

Anthony Bouchard ∙ November 4, 2018

Pwn20wnd’s unc0ver jailbreak tool for iOS 11.0-11.4 beta 3 received a notable update on Sunday with improved success rates for both the Empty_List (VFS) and Multi_Path (MPTCP) exploits that it utilizes to pwn Apple handsets.

Pwn20wnd announced the updated version of unc0ver via his Twitter account, which came just hours after unc0ver V1.1.1:

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