Messages

Name: Messages
Rating: 3.4 (276 reviews)
Author: Apple

Social Networking

Free

276 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

3.4

out of 5

276 Ratings

Leave a bit to be desired
16/02/2024

chantyflame
From a desktop and syncing perspective, they just don’t. Which means you desktop app is slow and inundated with deleted messages. To adds insult to injury is that it has no bulk message select option on the desktop app. Which means you can’t bulk delete. Which means I have to individually select and delete hundreds of messages. What a joy. It take the happiness out of the cool features that you put into this app and means it becomes a white elephant on my phone that I am force to deal with because it’s the only way you can receive txt messages.
Leave a bit to be desired
16/02/2024

chantyflame

From a desktop and syncing perspective, they just don’t. Which means you desktop app is slow and inundated with deleted messages. To adds insult to injury is that it has no bulk message select option on the desktop app. Which means you can’t bulk delete. Which means I have to individually select and delete hundreds of messages. What a joy. It take the happiness out of the cool features that you put into this app and means it becomes a white elephant on my phone that I am force to deal with because it’s the only way you can receive txt messages.
Amazing but lacks basic features.
01/08/2023

J_V8
I feel that this app could replace general communication platforms but I feel it lacks some basic features such as not all my images automatically save to my gallery, when someone sends me a message with an “echo” for example, it won’t actually action the effect but rather only show when I send one. There’s small issues like that would change this app if they did basic maintenance and updates on it.
Amazing but lacks basic features.
01/08/2023

J_V8

I feel that this app could replace general communication platforms but I feel it lacks some basic features such as not all my images automatically save to my gallery, when someone sends me a message with an “echo” for example, it won’t actually action the effect but rather only show when I send one. There’s small issues like that would change this app if they did basic maintenance and updates on it.
Glitching
15 Jan

Creative kitty cat
I love iMessages and it helps me communicate with my friends and family but sometimes it glitches, i have been experiencing times were I try to tap onto a group chat and then the whole app freezes and I cant do anything… my iPad has also froze in the process, and so now I cant use iMessage because of the glitching.
Glitching
15 Jan

Creative kitty cat

I love iMessages and it helps me communicate with my friends and family but sometimes it glitches, i have been experiencing times were I try to tap onto a group chat and then the whole app freezes and I cant do anything… my iPad has also froze in the process, and so now I cant use iMessage because of the glitching.
improvements
17/08/2024

afaafh
i love that the replying option is so much better cause you can slide it now but is till feel like it should highlight the last message you sent, because sometimes you replying to a message but you forgot what they said and it just looks like you’re replying to the first message they sent. so they should make easier like whatsapp and telegram does and highlight the message your actually replying to and not like the whole conversation of like the first one you’re replying to if that makes sense. other than that i love that the voice note can now stay on the side once you sent it and you don’t every time have to go the option section to select it.
improvements
17/08/2024

afaafh

i love that the replying option is so much better cause you can slide it now but is till feel like it should highlight the last message you sent, because sometimes you replying to a message but you forgot what they said and it just looks like you’re replying to the first message they sent. so they should make easier like whatsapp and telegram does and highlight the message your actually replying to and not like the whole conversation of like the first one you’re replying to if that makes sense. other than that i love that the voice note can now stay on the side once you sent it and you don’t every time have to go the option section to select it.

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- Larger Text
- Dark Interface
- Differentiate Without Colour Alone
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- Reduced Motion
- Captions
- Audio Descriptions