Messages 4+

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.

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.

Messages is supposedly the best app for all ages. All though one BIG problem for the All aged thing is that it allows any swears no matter what? Like shouldn’t a parent or guardian be able to add that limit and get notified if they say something bad? Two star decrease. Although there is so many fun and creative ways to text your friends! I love how you can name them anything and put any photo. Again should be a restriction option for that, but otherwise this part is great! You can even add them there own emojis of THERE FACES! Just make one yourself, and you can even get creative! That’s a two star bonus! The final thing is definitely the amount of things you can do with messages! You can mute people and put them on silent, you can remind yourself that there is a message you’d like to reread by swiping left, and you can even pin them if they’re your number one priority, or just a best friend! That’s a one star ADDED! Overall this app gets a three stars! Excellent service, but a few bad details. They could of done more to get a five star, but three is better than none.

EDIT!: I add +1 star because they added restrictions for parents! This is definitely VERY useful and important. Four stars!