Messages 4+
Apple
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- Free
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Description
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, 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 cellular or Wi-Fi connection.
• 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 be sure to reply to the sender later.
• Name a group and add a photo to personalize 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 favorite message threads at the top of the list.
• iMessage apps let you quickly share photos, recently played music, stickers, GIFs, Apple Cash*, and more right 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 synchronized 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, Scribble, emoji, Memoji, stickers, #images* or the QWERTY keyboard (Apple Watch Series 7 or later models).
• Mute or delete conversations.
• Pin conversations to keep your favorite 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 organized.
• Send, receive, and request money with Apple Pay*.
* Not available in all regions.
Ratings and Reviews
A solid choice
Personally, iMessage has always been a solid choice compared to other messaging apps like Messenger. Although they both have their pros and cons, one of the biggest pros of iMessage is that it has access to apps from the app store, making it more expansive and more customizable. I love how it also feels well polished and well designed. But it's not perfect, it's far from it. There are three features that come to my mind that iMessage has always lacked that would make it significantly better. 1, timed texts. Having the ability to send text messages natively by easily selecting the upcoming time desired would be so useful to me. 2, themes. I know this is all preference, but I like each conversation to feel a little different for each person, and through themes (even if it's just changing basic colors of message bubbles) would make a big difference. And 3, mass text options. The current options available are okay, but to add a switch to easily toggle between group (which sends an MMS reply to all recipients) and mass text (which sends an SMS reply to all recipients separately with individual replies) would be incredibly useful. Overall, the app is a very safe app, it works very well at what it does. With a few added features it could give the app a little more love and would significantly improve users' experiences.
Amazing and Intuitive
This is probably my favorite messaging app on the iPhone. It’s really cool animations and speed make this, in my opinion, much better than WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger. The UI in iMessages is very modern and clean giving you access to your favorite contacts with ease. After iOS 14 and 15, Apple has really turned around the experience and created a whole new world. The new photo carousel view is very satisfying to flick through and the mini apps built into iMessage give you quick access to sharing content with friends and family.
The tight integration with iOS, your iPhone and Siri make this app even better. Using ‘Hey Siri’ to send messages with my AirPods make it super seamless just to send messages on the go without even pulling out your iPhone. Surprisingly, Siri is very accurate in transcribing what I say so I have no doubts about using this amazing feature. Furthermore, I love the way I can access my messages through Spotlight Search on my iPhone, iPads and Macs. Also, with iOS 15 the ‘Shared With You’ across Apple apps like Music and Safari make iMessage even more necessary for iPhone users.
All in all, iMessage is definitely the best messaging app on the market, from its clean interface to its safe and secure messaging and integration throughout Apple products making it an essential and the only messaging app you’ll ever need.
Suggestions for Memoji, but good👍🏻
So I think this app is great, I’m a young teen and my dad won’t let me get other messaging apps (WhatsApp, Signal). So I use only iMessage for everything! 🥰 Some suggestions for Memoji tho. So the idea is great. I love having stickers right here for free in the app… but u need to add an accessories folder with necklaces, bracelets , backpacks, purses. 😊 Add headbands, Maybe eyebrow piercings, and more clothing, earrings, and hairstyles. Maybe a watch? Apple Watch, Fitbit, fancy Watch. Stuff like this would be even better! ☺️ Still, iMessage is a great app. And Memoji makes it even better! I love ❤️ this app 😊 Thnx for reading 😁
Edit:
So I’m really disappointed 🥺. I have an iPhone 13 mini and Messages keeps crashing! It did this with my old phone, iPhone 6s Plus, and I though it was just bc it was so old. But now with my new iPhone it’s still crashing various times. It’s not SUPER frequent, just like once or twice a week it might crash. And then I’d get texts on my Apple Watch and not my iPhone. I would have to turn it off and sometimes restart it. I am disappointed in Messages but I will still like it better if y’all add stuff to Memoji! Sadly I’m eliminating a star 😢
App Privacy
The developer, Apple, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Contact Info
- Search History
- Identifiers
- Other Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Location
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
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Information
- Seller
- Apple Inc.
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 10.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 10.0 or later.
- Apple Watch
- Requires watchOS 6.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2024 Apple Inc. All rights reserved.
- Price
- Free