Employ Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod bear on

Stay connected to the conversations that matter the most. Send texts, photos, videos, and more. Then personalize your letters with animated effects, pin your important conversations, transport inline replies, and add together mentions.

Send a bulletin

  1. Open Messages.
  2. Tap the Compose button to starting time a new bulletin. Or go to an existing conversation.
  3. Type your message, and so tap the Send button send message button.

With iOS 14 and iPadOS xiv and later, you lot can also utilize inline replies and mentions to telephone call attention to specific messages and people within the messages.

Reply from the Lock Screen

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

If you have an iPhone X or later, or an iPad with Face ID, and can't answer to a bulletin from the Lock Screen, go to Settings > Face ID & Passcode, and turn on Reply with Message. If y'all take an iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 8 or earlier, or an iPad, get to Settings > Bear on ID & Passcode > Permit Access When Locked, and turn on Respond with Message.

* Touch and hold is available on nigh devices that back up iOS 13 and after, or iPadOS. On iPhone SE (second generation), you lot'll need to swipe left on the notification, so tap View to respond to a message from the Lock Screen.

Utilise Shared with Y'all

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

Content that's shared with you is labeled in the corresponding app, so y'all tin come across who shared the content with you. With a simple tap on the proper noun, y'all tin easily reply to the share and continue the chat in Messages.

To disable Automated Sharing or a sure app from using Shared with You, go to Settings > Messages > Shared with You, and plow off Automatic Sharing or the app.

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

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

Pivot important conversations

With Messages in iOS fourteen and iPadOS xiv and later, you tin can pin up to nine conversations. When yous pin a conversation information technology shows upwardly at the elevation of the Messages app, and so it'south like shooting fish in a barrel to get to.

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

  1. Open up Messages, then tap Edit or the More button .
  2. Tap Edit Pins , so tap the Pivot button .
  3. Tap Done.

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

Change your name and photo

  1. Open Messages and tap Edit in the upper-left corner.
  2. Tap Edit Proper name and Photo Tap Edit Name and Photo.
  3. Edit your name. Or tap the paradigm circle to choose an image, photo, emoji, or Memoji.
  4. Tap Done.

Your name and photograph can be shared with anyone using iMessage, but you'll be asked to ostend that you want to share with someone when sending or replying to a new bulletin. You can as well plow sharing on and off. Just complete steps 1-ii, and turn Name and Photo Sharing on or off.

Delete a message or conversation

When you lot delete a message or conversation, you lot can't get it back. And then make certain that you relieve of import information from your messages.

To delete a single bulletin:

  1. Within a chat, bear upon and hold the message bubble to open up an options bill of fare.
  2. Tap More than .
  3. Tap the Trash button , then tap Delete Message.

To delete a conversation:

  1. Touch and hold the chat to open up an options carte.
  2. Tap Delete .
  3. Tap Delete once again to ostend.

Every bit long as the conversation isn't pinned, you can as well swipe left over the conversation, tap Delete, then tap Delete once again to confirm. To delete more than one conversation, open Messages and tap Edit in the upper-left corner. Tap Select Letters, then tap the circumvolve next to the conversations and tap Delete in the bottom-right corner.

To keep your messages for a certain amount of time, get to Settings, tap Messages, then tap Keep Messages. So select how long you want to keep your letters.

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

  1. Open Messages.
  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 but for that conversation, not your device. You'll however receive all other messages and run into notifications for them on your Lock Screen.

Find attachments from a conversation

  1. Open the bulletin.
  2. Tap the proper name of the contact at the height of the message. If you're using iOS 14 or earlier, or iPadOS, tap the Info button .
  3. You'll see Photos and Links. Touch and concord an image or attachment to show options like Save, 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 peak of the conversation. If yous're using iOS 14 or before, or iPadOS, tap the Info push .
  2. Tap Send My Current Location. Your recipient will encounter your location on the map. Or tap Share My Location. And so choose the length of fourth dimension that you want to share your location.

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