Learn how to remove old SMS and iMessage from your iCloud account on iPhone, iPad, or Mac to clean up the Messages app and free up online storage space.
How to delete old messages in iCloud on iPhone

Learn how to remove old SMS and iMessage from your iCloud account on iPhone, iPad, or Mac to clean up the Messages app and free up online storage space.
Learn how to stop missing important SMS and iMessage text notifications from banks, carriers, delivery apps, and other unknown senders on your iPhone.
Learn how to copy a specific part of a message on your iPhone in Apple Messages and third-party chat apps like WhatsApp and Telegram instead of the whole text.
Apple provides new APIs to third-party developers in the European Union that enable cellular phone calls and SMS, MMS and RCS messaging within apps.
Learn how to translate chats in real-time on Apple's Messages app on iOS 26, as you send and receive them, for easier communication in foreign languages.
While the iOS Messages app supports a typing indicator within conversations, it’s possible with a jailbreak to have a system-wide typing indicator that you can see from anywhere in iOS when someone begins typing to you, even if you’re not currently using the Messages app.
Learn how to run polls with multiple-choice options in chats within the Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to gather group feedback about anything.
Apple is bringing Tapbacks to Messages on CarPlay. Now you can react to chats with emoji while driving because what could possibly go wrong?
Learn how to set an image or color-based animation as the chat background in the Apple Messages app on iOS 26, iPadOS 26, macOS 26, and watchOS 26 to add flair to your family and friend conversations.
Apple's iOS 26 software could enhance the iPhone's built-in Messages app with new capabilities, including polls and automatic translation.
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.
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.