Use Messages on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod affect

Stay continued to the conversations that thing the virtually. Send texts, photos, videos, and more. Then personalize your messages with animated effects, pin your important conversations, transport inline replies, and add mentions.

Send a bulletin

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

With iOS 14 and iPadOS 14 and later, you tin can also employ inline replies and mentions to call attending to specific messages and people inside the messages.

Reply from the Lock Screen

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

If y'all have an iPhone X or later, or an iPad with Confront ID, and can't reply to a message from the Lock Screen, go to Settings > Confront ID & Passcode, and turn on Respond with Bulletin. If you have an iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone viii or earlier, or an iPad, go to Settings > Touch ID & Passcode > Allow Access When Locked, and plough on Respond with Message.

* Impact and hold is available on most devices that support iOS xiii and afterward, or iPadOS. On iPhone SE (2nd generation), you'll need to swipe left on the notification, then tap View to answer to a bulletin from the Lock Screen.

Use Shared with You

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

Content that'southward shared with you is labeled in the corresponding app, so y'all can encounter who shared the content with you. With a unproblematic tap on the name, yous tin can easily reply to the share and continue the chat in Messages.

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

Pin important conversations

With Letters in iOS fourteen and iPadOS fourteen and afterward, you lot can pin upwardly to nine conversations. When you pin a conversation it shows upwards at the elevation of the Messages app, so information technology's easy to get to.

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

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

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

Change your name and photograph

  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 choose an image, photo, emoji, or Memoji.
  4. Tap Washed.

Your name and photograph 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 message. Y'all can besides turn sharing on and off. Simply complete steps one-2, and plough Proper name and Photo Sharing on or off.

Delete a message or conversation

When you delete a message or chat, you tin can't become information technology back. So brand sure that y'all salvage important information from your messages.

To delete a unmarried message:

  1. Within a chat, impact and hold the message bubble to open an options menu.
  2. Tap More than .
  3. Tap the Trash button , then tap Delete Message.

To delete a chat:

  1. Touch and hold the conversation to open an options bill of fare.
  2. Tap Delete .
  3. Tap Delete once again to ostend.

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

To keep your messages for a certain amount of time, go to Settings, tap Messages, and so tap Keep Messages. So select how long you desire to keep your letters.

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

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

When Hide Alerts is on, the Alerts push button appears next to the chat. This stops notifications just for that conversation, not your device. You'll notwithstanding receive all other messages and see notifications for them on your Lock Screen.

Detect attachments from a chat

  1. Open the message.
  2. Tap the name of the contact at the height of the bulletin. If y'all're using iOS 14 or before, or iPadOS, tap the Info push .
  3. You'll encounter Photos and Links. Bear on and hold an paradigm or zipper to show options similar Save, Copy, Share, and Delete.

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

Transport and share your location

  1. Tap the proper name of the contact at the top of the conversation. If y'all're using iOS 14 or before, or iPadOS, tap the Info push button .
  2. Tap Send My Current Location. Your recipient will see your location on the map. Or tap Share My Location. And then cull the length of fourth dimension that y'all want to share your location.

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