Apple’s Messages app now allows users to do much more than just texting and sharing media.
With the latest iOS updates, even more functions are available, expanding customer capabilities.
The next time you use your iPhone, iPad, or Mac, here are five features to remember.
1. You can add your Memoji
Tap the Memoji button and swipe right to add a new one. Apple allows users to customize features including skin tone, hair, eyes, and more.
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The Memoji automatically becomes sticker packs that live in the keyboard and can be used in Messages, Mail, and some third-party apps.
To use an animated Memoji, press the Memoji button, choose your Memoji, press the red button and record up to 30 seconds.
Select another Memoji you created to choose a different Memoji with the same recording.
Craig Federighi, senior vice president of software engineering at Apple Inc., speaks at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference in San Jose, California, June 4, 2018.
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2. You can edit a sent message
With iOS 16 or later. iPadOS 16 or later or macOS Ventura, Apple users can edit or unsend text messages.
If the receiving device has an older version of iOS, it receives follow-up messages with the preface “Changed to” and the new message in quotes.
SMS cannot be unsent or edited.
Recently sent messages can be undone up to two minutes after a message is sent.
Long-press the message bubble, then tap Undo Send.
A note confirming that you did not send the message appears in both transcripts of the conversation: the sender’s and the recipient’s.
Apple’s Messages icon displayed on a phone screen is seen in this illustration photo taken in Krakow, Poland, August 26, 2021.
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When unsending a message, the user is warned that the recipient can still see the original message in the message transcript.
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A sent message can be edited up to five times within 15 minutes of being sent.
Touch and hold the message bubble and tap Edit.
The message is marked as Edited in the chat transcript.
3. You can mention someone
With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and later, you can reply directly to a specific message and use mentions to draw attention to certain messages and people.
The Apple logo is seen above the entrance to the Apple Store in Tokyo on October 29. 20, 2022.
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Open a conversation, enter a contact’s name, then tap the name when it appears.
Conversely, type @ followed by their name.
“Depending on your contact’s settings, a mention may notify them even if they’ve muted the conversation. To change this notification setting, go to Settings > Messages, then turn Notify Me on or off,” Apple advises.
4. You can recover deleted messages
With iOS 16, iPadOS 16.1 or lateryou can recover individual messages or entire conversations that have been deleted.
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Tap Edit, View Recently Deleted Messages, choose the conversations with messages you want to restore and tap Recover.
Tape recovery message or Recover [Number] Posts.
5. You can filter messages from unknown senders
Go to Settings, Messages, scroll down to Message Filtering, then enable Filter unknown senders.
When the setting is on, you can only see messages from people who aren’t in your contacts when you go to Filters and then Unknown senders.
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