Messages

Name: Messages
Rating: 3.9 (2780 reviews)
Author: Apple

Social Networking

Free

2.8K Ratings
Ages

4+
Years
Category

Social Networking
Developer

Apple
Language

EN
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Stay connected to the people and conversations that matter most. Send unlimited texts, photos, videos, documents and more to any iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS or visionOS device with iMessage, or use it to send RCS, SMS and MMS messages. Features • Send texts, photos, videos, audio messages, documents, stickers, Memoji, polls and more to contacts using their phone number or Apple Account. • Send Messages via satellite* to stay connected with friends and family even when you are without mobile service or a Wi-Fi connection. • Automatically translate incoming texts, including group messages.* • On-device spam detection filters out spam from your conversations list. • Opt-in to screen messages from unknown numbers. • Tapback with any emoji or sticker for a quick reply to express what you think about a message. • Add effects to your messages like animated text effects, full-screen effects and bubble effects to bring your conversations to life. • Schedule a message to send at a specified time with Send Later. • Your name and photo, or even Memoji, can be shared with your friends. • Edit any message for up to 15 minutes after sending it. Recipients will be able to see a record of edits made to the message. • Unsend any message for up to 2 minutes after sending it. • Mark as unread when you don’t have time to respond but want to make sure you reply to the sender later. • Name a group and add a photo to personalise the group conversation. • Mentions let you direct a message to an individual in a group conversation. • Inline replies let you reply to a specific message and see all related messages in their own view. • Pin conversations to keep up to nine of your favourite message threads at the top of the list. • iMessage apps let you quickly share photos, recently played music, stickers, GIFs, Apple Cash* and more from Messages. • Start a Check In with a family member or friend to let them know when you’ve arrived at a destination, or set up a Check In for a time duration. • Use Messages in iCloud to keep your entire message history updated and available on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch and Apple Vision Pro, even when you set up a brand-new device. • SharePlay via Messages lets you share synchronised activities like movies, music, workouts, games and more while chatting with friends in Messages. • Shared with You shows content sent to you by friends in Messages conversations in a section in Photos, Safari, News,* Music,* Podcasts or the TV app* • Collaboration lets you invite others to collaborate on a file via Messages and shares activity updates in the thread when someone makes an edit to a shared project. Apple Watch Features • Quickly read and respond to incoming messages. • Use smart replies, dictation, audio messages, stickers, #images*, Memoji, polls or the QWERTY keyboard (Apple Watch Series 7 or later models). • Automatically translate incoming texts, including group messages.* • Start a Check In with a family member or friend to let them know when you’ve arrived at a destination, or set up a Check In for a time duration. • Pin conversations to keep your favourite message threads at the top of the list. • Save photos, audio messages and videos from your messages. • Ask Siri to send a message to your contacts. • Respond to a specific message inline to keep conversations organised. • Send, receive and request money with Apple Pay.* • Mute or delete conversations. * Not available in all regions.

Ratings & Reviews

3.9

out of 5

2.8K Ratings

Almost Perfect!
18/12/2021

👑 Sulaiman 👑
iMessage has grown significantly over the years and has slowly gained considerable prestige because of that. I love it for many reasons, which include its simple and intuitive user interface, smooth animations, respect for my user privacy and seamless integration with the Apple ecosystem. As someone who is heavily invested in it, I love the unparalleled convenience of being able to message someone on my iPhone and continue the conversation on my other Apple devices. However, there are some features that are missing which I hope Apple will add soon, such as the ability to star messages, archive chats, group chat typing indicators and disappearing messages. Nonetheless, I strongly believe that iMessage is hard to walk away from and should be used as the primary messaging app for many more users!
Almost Perfect!
18/12/2021

👑 Sulaiman 👑

iMessage has grown significantly over the years and has slowly gained considerable prestige because of that. I love it for many reasons, which include its simple and intuitive user interface, smooth animations, respect for my user privacy and seamless integration with the Apple ecosystem. As someone who is heavily invested in it, I love the unparalleled convenience of being able to message someone on my iPhone and continue the conversation on my other Apple devices. However, there are some features that are missing which I hope Apple will add soon, such as the ability to star messages, archive chats, group chat typing indicators and disappearing messages. Nonetheless, I strongly believe that iMessage is hard to walk away from and should be used as the primary messaging app for many more users!
Great but..
1 Mar

✨Mahita✨
This app is great you can text people, call them and make group chats. A few things I don’t like: when you are directly messaging someone with iPhone you can see whether or not the message is delivered, and read. That does not apply if you are messaging someone who doesn’t have iPhone. In addition to that, as someone who isn’t allowed WhatsApp where basically all my friends are, it is extremely disappointing and annoying that you can’t make group chats with people who don’t have iPhone. It makes me upset that I can only communicate with a few of my friends, and some of my friends that do have iPhone and can use messages don’t text on there often because they have WhatsApp. I think it would be better for everyone if you can make groups with everyone and feel more included and less cut-off from many of your friends. I am able to communicate with only two of my friends who can’t use messages via Skype, one of whom very very rarely uses it I’m guessing because of WhatsApp, and on top of that Skype can be very laggy as well. Please try to change this or at least give me a response explaining this issue. A few things that are just some suggestions: one that what be very simple is the ability to change your background / chat bubble / etc. Basically being able to customise the ‘appearance’ of the app. Thanks.
Great but..
1 Mar

✨Mahita✨

This app is great you can text people, call them and make group chats. A few things I don’t like: when you are directly messaging someone with iPhone you can see whether or not the message is delivered, and read. That does not apply if you are messaging someone who doesn’t have iPhone. In addition to that, as someone who isn’t allowed WhatsApp where basically all my friends are, it is extremely disappointing and annoying that you can’t make group chats with people who don’t have iPhone. It makes me upset that I can only communicate with a few of my friends, and some of my friends that do have iPhone and can use messages don’t text on there often because they have WhatsApp. I think it would be better for everyone if you can make groups with everyone and feel more included and less cut-off from many of your friends. I am able to communicate with only two of my friends who can’t use messages via Skype, one of whom very very rarely uses it I’m guessing because of WhatsApp, and on top of that Skype can be very laggy as well. Please try to change this or at least give me a response explaining this issue. A few things that are just some suggestions: one that what be very simple is the ability to change your background / chat bubble / etc. Basically being able to customise the ‘appearance’ of the app. Thanks.
More people should use this!
4 Nov

Ringo11101110
Wow! This app is honestly amazing, and WhatsApp is terribly overrated compared. I love the sleek but yet still bubbly design, I love the satisfying sound effects and feel, I love the organised and easy to use layouts- it’s bliss! I also love the fact that with an iPhone, this app is data-free! More people should get this app, I’m not joking. However, as usual, there are some minor flaws that I think if you considered would make the app more popular and appealing than even WhatsApp. My first suggestion is that you make the app personaliseable , much like WhatApp. My next suggestion is that you let the user create groups, so we can chat in a community together and discuss. My final comment is that maybe you should have a virtual pet within the app! This one is far less vital and is more of an afterthought, but with those type of tamagotchi things being so hot at the moment, I thought maybe it would get you more customers. And yes, get this, you could customise your pet absolutely- change the colour, clothes, so it’s 100% yours: and then make stickers of it available to use in the app, so they’re an exclusive edition that all the other apps won’t have!
More people should use this!
4 Nov

Ringo11101110

Wow! This app is honestly amazing, and WhatsApp is terribly overrated compared. I love the sleek but yet still bubbly design, I love the satisfying sound effects and feel, I love the organised and easy to use layouts- it’s bliss! I also love the fact that with an iPhone, this app is data-free! More people should get this app, I’m not joking. However, as usual, there are some minor flaws that I think if you considered would make the app more popular and appealing than even WhatsApp. My first suggestion is that you make the app personaliseable , much like WhatApp. My next suggestion is that you let the user create groups, so we can chat in a community together and discuss. My final comment is that maybe you should have a virtual pet within the app! This one is far less vital and is more of an afterthought, but with those type of tamagotchi things being so hot at the moment, I thought maybe it would get you more customers. And yes, get this, you could customise your pet absolutely- change the colour, clothes, so it’s 100% yours: and then make stickers of it available to use in the app, so they’re an exclusive edition that all the other apps won’t have!
Message
31/07/2024

Tashan Palmer
I like iMessage because it’s pre-installed but there is four things which can be improved in one. It’s not great when you don’t have great signal examples in supermarkets you can fall back on SMS but that’s not great if you’re trying to send a picture message and don’t want to be charged. Two. sometimes when you’re trying to send a message, if you got 4G or 3G, it takes forever. some cases it says it fails to send. Three it should be cross-platform. Four SMS notification sound should be different to the iMessage notification sound. As default. And when you turn off iMessage in your phone settings it should turn off iMessage on all your apple devices. WhatsApp is better experience. Message app need the ability to schedule messages for both iMessage & sms users just in case you got a idea later at night and you don’t want disturb the person who you’re trying to message. The application lacks cross-platform messaging capabilities. This is why the Google messaging app or WhatsApp is superior. Apple's messages app should implement a QR code-based web messaging feature. and it’s too time-consuming if you want to forward a image or a phrase to another person in your iMessage contacts.
Message
31/07/2024

Tashan Palmer

I like iMessage because it’s pre-installed but there is four things which can be improved in one. It’s not great when you don’t have great signal examples in supermarkets you can fall back on SMS but that’s not great if you’re trying to send a picture message and don’t want to be charged. Two. sometimes when you’re trying to send a message, if you got 4G or 3G, it takes forever. some cases it says it fails to send. Three it should be cross-platform. Four SMS notification sound should be different to the iMessage notification sound. As default. And when you turn off iMessage in your phone settings it should turn off iMessage on all your apple devices. WhatsApp is better experience. Message app need the ability to schedule messages for both iMessage & sms users just in case you got a idea later at night and you don’t want disturb the person who you’re trying to message. The application lacks cross-platform messaging capabilities. This is why the Google messaging app or WhatsApp is superior. Apple's messages app should implement a QR code-based web messaging feature. and it’s too time-consuming if you want to forward a image or a phrase to another person in your iMessage contacts.

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