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.
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.
Learn how to send audio messages to your iMessage friends on Apple devices when you don't have the time for typing or want to tell them something in your own voice.
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.
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.
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 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.
iOS 12 auto-saves any iMessage attachments snapped with the Messages camera to 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.
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.
A variety of popular third-party messaging apps, including Discord and Slack, let you enter Emojis by typing a colon followed by a specific shortcode. Apple doesn’t provide users with a comparable feature throughout the rest of iOS, but wouldn’t it be nice if they did?
If you answered “yes” to the question above, then you might be happy to learn about a new jailbreak tweak dubbed TextEmojis by iOS developer Andreas Henriksson. Once installed, you’ll be able to input Emojis and other quirky text faces by typing pre-configured text shortcuts.
If you send an enormous amount of text messages (iMessages included) to your contacts, then a new free jailbreak tweak called CountMyMessages by iOS developer Kiran Patil may be of interest to you.
Just as the name implies, this tweak provides you with a way of monitoring the total number of messages you’ve sent or received from within the stock Messages app.