Learn how to increase text size in the Messages app on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac to stop squinting your eyes if you struggle to read small type.
How to increase the text size in Messages on iPhone, iPad and Mac
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AutoShiftFix can help prevent capital letter-centric typos throughout iOS
One of the most common typo mistakes I experience on the iOS platform involves capital letters. Sometimes my fat fingers tap the Shift key in the middle of a sentence, resulting in a capital letter appearing where it doesn’t belong.
How to send and receive SMS text messages on iPad and Mac
In addition to iMessage, you can also send and receive regular text messages on your iPad and Mac. This tutorial shows you how to do that so you can continue your SMS conversation from any device and not just your iPhone.
How to send voice messages on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
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.
How to use iMessage effects like Memoji, stickers, filters, and shapes on your 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.
How to convert text into a spoken iTunes track on Mac
Whenever you want to save a block of important text to your Mac, you probably copy and paste it into the Notes app or into a text editor to save it as a text document. But, did you know you could save any body of text on your Mac as a spoken iTunes track instead?
In this tutorial, you will learn how to convert any highlighted body of text into a spoken iTunes audio track.
CKCounter displays the number of messages in your texting conversations
Chances are a lot of you use your Messages app on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad to keep in touch with others via iMessage or SMS.
If curiosity has ever struck you as to how many messages have been sent back and forth in each conversation you have sitting in your message list, then you might find interest in a new free jailbreak tweak called CKCounter.
How to use the hidden emoticons on your iPhone ＼(^o^)／
Learn how to access unique emoticons and ASCII faces on your iPhone or iPad by enabling the hidden Japanese keyboard for some fun ways to express yourself.
Hands-on with Couria, an upcoming quick reply and quick compose tweak for iOS 8
Couria is a quick reply and quick compose tweak for iOS that originally debuted back in the iOS 7 days. Today, the Messaging landscape for jailbroken devices is significantly different, with a key major player, biteSMS, now defunct.
With this in mind, a few tweaks that are currently in the works are hoping to reinvigorate the Messaging app tweak genre. One of them, Couria, plays heavily on the infrastructure already put in place by Apple, piggybacking on the native quick reply feature in iOS 8.
Here’s how iOS 8.3’s new Conversation List Filter works for the Messages app
iOS 8.3 brings a fairly significant new feature to the stock Messages app—Conversation List Filtering. This means that instead of just having one single "inbox" for conversations in the Messages app, you now have two, broken up via two tabs: Contacts & SMS and Filtered.
Truth lets you send anonymous text messages to your contacts
You know that friend you’ve been hanging out with for the past few months? The one you are too shy to ask out? You’ve probably gone home alone after a group get-together, kicking yourself for not pulling that friend aside and asking for a date.
Truth – Just Say It is an anonymous way for you to tell that friend you are interested without having to expose your vulnerability. If you are rejected, your friend won’t even know it was you…
Ultratext is a fun app that will spice up your iMessages
I'm not big on messaging. I don't do Snapchat. I don't do Whatsapp. I barely use Twitter DMs. However, I'm a pretty big iMessage user, the messaging platform introduced by Apple along iOS 5 in 2011.
iMessage is great because it allows you to communicate with any iOS user in a very simple way. There is no app to download, no account to create, and no password to remember. Oh, and yes, it works on iPhone, iPad, and Mac too.
While trawling the App Store earlier today, I found Ultratext, a fun app that lets you send GIF messages to your contacts, giving iMessage a little more spice and colors...