Apple's iOS 26 software could enhance the iPhone's built-in Messages app with new capabilities, including polls and automatic translation.
iOS 26 could bring Messages polls and automatic translation of chats
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Everything you can do with Apple Intelligence in the Messages app
Learn how to use Apple Intelligence features in the built-in Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to generate AI emoji, compose, proofread, or rewrite text, and more.
ShootingStar lets jailbreakers send any iMessage text with the beautiful Shooting Star effect
As many iMessage users know, there are certain keywords that you can send to others to trigger animations during special events. For example, sending “Congrats” triggers a confetti animation, sending “Happy Birthday” triggers a balloons animation, and sending “Happy New Year” triggers a fireworks animation.
How to check for RCS messaging and send RCS texts from iPhone
In this tutorial, we’ll show you how to send an RCS message from your iPhone to another iPhone or Android device, provided you have RCS messaging enabled and it's supported by your carrier.
How to disable the typing bubble indicator in Messages on iPhone
Learn how to reply to messages on your iPhone or iPad without showing the typing bubble indicator to the other person.
Encrypted RCS texting between iPhone and Android is coming soon
Support for end-to-end encryption for texts between iPhone and Android is coming soon via the latest Rich Communication Services (RCS) 3.0 protocol.
iPhone users notice RCS messaging enabled for more carriers on iOS 18.4 beta 2
After Apple seeded its second beta build of iOS 18.4 to developers for testing this week, many testers took to Reddit and various other social media platforms to share that Rich Communication Services (RCS) became available on handsets powered by carriers that previously didn’t support it – namely some of T-Mobile’s smaller Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs) in the United States.
How to schedule Instagram messages on iPhone and Android
Learn how to schedule Instagram messages on your iPhone or Android phone so they're automatically sent at the future date and time of your choosing.
Why iPhone phishing texts about packages or unpaid tolls urge you to reply with a “Y”
iPhone owners should never ever reply to phishing texts involving supposedly undelivered packages or unpaid tolls and here’s why.
ReplyActions tweak brings a biteSMS-like messaging experience to modern jailbreaks
If you’ve been jailbreaking iPhones as long as I have, then you may remember a once prominent jailbreak tweak for upgrading what used to be a rather abysmal Messages app user experience called biteSMS.
iOS 18.1 correctly displays RCS emoji reactions from Android owners
The iPhone's Messages app on iOS 18.1 correctly displays RCS emoji reactions from Android owners instead in a separate line like before.
How to have Siri read your messages in multiple languages
Learn how to have Siri on your iPhone or iPad read new text messages in multiple languages, perfect for seamless communication across different languages.