Maybe you cannot answer that important phone call because you’re in a meeting, have an appointment, or are cutting through traffic. Whatever your excuse, the iPhone and iPad enable you to respond with one of the built-in canned messages you can customize to your liking by following this guide.
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.
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.
The Mass Message shortcut sends your custom text message to multiple recipients through the Messages app - but individually, in separate messages. This solves one of the biggest complaints about the stock Messages app, which supports group chatting but won't let you text multiple recipients simultaneously via individual messages.
Here's how to individually text several recipients at once from your iPhone or iPad.
If you’re like me, then you might consider some of your notifications to be more important than others. But because of how iOS handles them, it’s easy for the most important notifications to get buried underneath all the noise from the rest of your apps.
Although Apple’s notification system isn’t perfect, a new jailbreak tweak called Priority by iOS developers Justin Proulx and Ayden Panhuyzen brings it one step closer. It can help you discern critical notifications at a glance without compromising those from other apps.
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.
Apple's Business Chat feature in Messages has expanded to nearly a dozen countries following its launch in the United States earlier this year in partnership with brands like Dish.
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.
Learn how to change the keyboard language on your Apple Watch if you want to compose a text message or email in another language from your wrist.
iOS 12 auto-saves any iMessage attachments snapped with the Messages camera to Photos.
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.
iOS 10 included a CallKit framework that brought a system-wide way for customers to use specialized apps on their iPhone, like Hiya and TrueCaller, that automatically identify and block nuisance calls before the phone even rings. With iOS 12, Apple started allowing developers to write new types of call-blocking extensions that gather information from the user before deciding whether to report or block the number.