Employ Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch

Stay connected to the conversations that matter the most. Send texts, photos, videos, and more. Then personalize your messages with blithe effects, pin your of import conversations, transport inline replies, and add mentions.

Send a message

  1. Open Letters.
  2. Tap the Etch push to beginning a new message. Or get to an existing conversation.
  3. Type your message, then tap the Ship push button send message button.

With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and afterwards, you can also utilise inline replies and mentions to call attention to specific messages and people within the messages.

Reply from the Lock Screen

  1. From the Lock Screen, touch and concur the notification that yous want to reply to. Or depending on your device, you might need to swipe left over the notification and tap View.*
  2. Type your message.
  3. Tap the Send button send message button.

If you have an iPhone X or after, or an iPad with Face ID, and tin't answer to a message from the Lock Screen, go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode, and turn on Reply with Message. If yous have an iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 8 or before, or an iPad, go to Settings > Touch on ID & Passcode > Allow Access When Locked, and plough on Reply with Message.

* Impact and concur is available on most devices that support iOS 13 and afterwards, or iPadOS. On iPhone SE (2nd generation), you'll demand to swipe left on the notification, then tap View to answer to a message from the Lock Screen.

Utilise Shared with Yous

With iOS fifteen and iPadOS 15, content that'southward shared with you in the Messages app is automatically organized in a Shared with You department in the corresponding app. Shared with Y'all works with Photos, Safari, News, Music, Podcasts, and the Apple TV app.

Content that's shared with you lot is labeled in the corresponding app, so you can see who shared the content with you. With a unproblematic tap on the name, yous can easily respond to the share and go on the chat in Letters.

To disable Automatic Sharing or a certain app from using Shared with You, become to Settings > Letters > Shared with You, and turn off Automatic Sharing or the app.

Learn more near finding and sharing content with Shared with You.

iPhone showing how to pin a message by swiping left over the message.

Pin important conversations

With Messages in iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and later, you can pivot up to nine conversations. When you pin a conversation it shows up at the top of the Messages app, and so information technology's easy to get to.

To pivot a conversation, open up Messages, then swipe right over the chat. Or follow these steps:

  1. Open up Letters, and so tap Edit or the More push button .
  2. Tap Edit Pins , so tap the Pin button .
  3. Tap Done.

iPhone showing how to change your name or photo in Messages.

Change your name and photo

  1. Open Letters and tap Edit in the upper-left corner.
  2. Tap Edit Proper noun and Photo Tap Edit Name and Photo.
  3. Edit your proper name. Or tap the image circumvolve to cull an image, photo, emoji, or Memoji.
  4. Tap Done.

Your name and photo can be shared with anyone using iMessage, but you'll be asked to confirm that you want to share with someone when sending or replying to a new bulletin. Yous tin can as well plough sharing on and off. Simply complete steps 1-2, and turn Name and Photograph Sharing on or off.

Delete a bulletin or conversation

When you delete a message or chat, you tin't get it back. So brand certain that y'all save important information from your messages.

To delete a unmarried bulletin:

  1. Inside a conversation, affect and concord the bulletin bubble to open an options menu.
  2. Tap More than .
  3. Tap the Trash button , so tap Delete Message.

To delete a chat:

  1. Bear on and agree the conversation to open an options menu.
  2. Tap Delete .
  3. Tap Delete once more to confirm.

As long as the conversation isn't pinned, you can also swipe left over the conversation, tap Delete, and then tap Delete again to confirm. To delete more than one chat, open Messages and tap Edit in the upper-left corner. Tap Select Letters, then tap the circle next to the conversations and tap Delete in the bottom-correct corner.

To keep your letters for a certain corporeality of time, go to Settings, tap Letters, so tap Keep Messages. Then select how long you want to keep your messages.

iPhone showing how to turn on Hide Alerts by swiping left over a message.

  1. Open up Letters.
  2. Swipe left over the conversation that you want to mute.
  3. Tap the Alerts button .

When Hibernate Alerts is on, the Alerts button appears next to the conversation. This stops notifications only for that conversation, not your device. You lot'll nonetheless receive all other letters and encounter notifications for them on your Lock Screen.

Discover attachments from a conversation

  1. Open the message.
  2. Tap the proper noun of the contact at the top of the message. If yous're using iOS 14 or before, or iPadOS, tap the Info button .
  3. You'll run into Photos and Links. Touch and hold an image or attachment to show options like Salvage, Copy, Share, and Delete.

iPhone showing how to send and share your location in Messages.

Send and share your location

  1. Tap the name of the contact at the top of the chat. If y'all're using iOS xiv or earlier, or iPadOS, tap the Info push button .
  2. Tap Send My Current Location. Your recipient volition see your location on the map. Or tap Share My Location. So cull the length of fourth dimension that you want to share your location.

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